Experience

Aiyana Thompson is an associate practicing in the Corporate practice group. She practices in the areas of corporate governance, corporation finance, and mergers and acquisitions. She also has experience advising clients on limited partnership agreements for private equity investments.

Aiyana was an associate, 2006-2008, and summer associate, 2005, at Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP; judicial clerk extern for the Honorable Judge John O'Meara, United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, 2004; transfer pricing associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, 2002-2003; project development and finance legal assistant intern at Shearman & Sterling, 1998; and intern at CNN-Beijing Bureau, Beijing, China, Summer 1997.

Professional Honors & Activities

• Named a Rising Star, Business-Corporate, Washington Law & Politics, 2010
• Member, Loren Miller Bar Association
• Member, Dartmouth Lawyers Association
• Member, Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network
• Member, Washington State Bar Association
• Member, King County Bar Association
• Member, International Section, American Bar Association

Civic Activities

• Fellow, World Affairs Council, 2008-2009

Foreign Languages

• Mandarin Chinese (intermediate)
• Spanish (elementary)

Education

• University of Iowa College of Law, J.D., 2006; Law Opportunity Fellowship; Law Freshman Fellowship; Student writer, Journal of Transnational and Contemporary Problems
• University of Michigan, M.P.P., 2002; AED Public Policy and International Fellowship; Horace Rackham Graduate School Fellowship
• Dartmouth College, A.B., 1999; Endowed Scholar of Dartmouth College; Nelson A. Rockefeller Grant
• Monterey Institute of International Studies, Summer Intensive Language Program, Summer 1999
• University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, Dartmouth Foreign Study Program, Fall 1997
• Beijing Normal University, Dartmouth Foreign Study Program, Summer 1996

Admissions

• Washington

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