Experience

• Represent startups, emerging growth companies, and investors in connection with business formation, founders’ issues, and financing.
• Represented Afognak Native Corporation, an Alaska Native Corporation, in its acquisition of the largest retailer of liquor, wine and beer in Alaska, Liquor Stores USA North Inc., d/b/a Brown Jug, a Nevada corporation.
• Represented Chugach Alaska Corporation, an Alaska Native Corporation, in its acquisition of REX Electric & Technologies, LLC, a Chicago-based company that provides electrical and technology services to general contractors.
• Represented Cook Inlet Region, Inc., an Alaska Native Corporation, as transaction and finance counsel in its acquisition of an Idaho-based engineering and environmental remediation company, Portage, Inc., and its subsidiaries.
• Represented an Alaska Native Corporation in obtaining a $300 million syndicated credit facility used in part to refinance its senior secured notes and other existing indebtedness.
• Represented Idaho-based Rule Steel Tanks, Inc., in its sale of its Diamond Z business to Screen Machine Industries, LLC.
• Represented Koniag Development Corporation, an Alaska Native Corporation, in the acquisition of Glacier Services, Inc., a company that provides software services to oil companies.
• Represented an Alaska communications company in its acquisition of an IT solutions company.
• Represented an Alaska Native corporation in its sale of a general civil construction company and its affiliates.
• Represented an Alaska Native corporation in its 1031 sale and acquisition of Anchorage commercial real property.
• Represented shareholders in the sale of their interest in a power and communication line construction company to a publicly held engineering, procurement and construction service provider.
• Represented Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc. in its acquisition of the assets of Green Lake Capital, LLC, an owner of commercial solar power systems.
• Member of a team that represented a Minnesota-based producer of biofuels in a financing transaction to fund its ongoing expansion and modernization project.
• Member of a team that represented a 15-state ranching operation in its corporate restructuring.

Honors & Activities

Professional Honors and Activities

• Selected as one of “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business” (Alaska) by Chambers USA (Corporate/M&A), Associates to watch, 2020–2021
• Member, The National Black Lawyers Top 40 Under 40
• Recipient, Stoel Rives LLP Andrew Guy Pro Bono Award, 2018
• Member, The UAA Legal Studies Program Advisory Committee
• Member, Alaska Bar Association
• Member, Business Law Section, Alaska Bar Association
• Member, International Law Section, Alaska Bar Association
• Member, Anchorage Bar Association

Civic Activities

• Member, Abused Women’s Aide in Crisis, Board of Directors, March 2020–present
• Guest Speaker, Alaska YWCA, 26th Annual Multicultural Female Leadership Conference, 2015
• Co-Director, 31st Annual Virginia Law Charity Softball Invitational, 2014
• Director, International Service Trip, University of Virginia Black Law Students Association, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 2013

Insights & Presentations

• “Mergers & Acquisitions in a COVID World,” Alaska Bar Association Corporate Counsel section virtual presentation, April 2021
• “Diversity & Inclusion: Valuing the African-American Woman Lawyer’s Experience” (panelist), Anchorage Association of Women Lawyers virtual spring event, March 2021
• “Business Structures: Choosing An Entity For Your Business,” private presentation to Bristol Bay Development Fund, LLC, subsidiary shareholders, Jan. 2021
• “Pass-through and Disregarded Business Entities: A Tax Advantage Alaskans Should Know About,” Alaska Business Monthly, June 2015