Monica L. Keo-Newton

Monica L. Keo-Newton helps clients through mergers and acquisitions, securities and financing transactions, corporate governance, and tax matters. She works closely with clients on the buy and sell side of transactions to achieve their business goals through creative problem solving and a fresh perspective. Monica also works with institutional investors and emerging companies to further each client’s growth goals. Monica supports clients in various industries such as fisheries, timber, agriculture, and consumer products.

Prior to returning to Stoel Rives as an associate from her time as a summer associate, Monica consulted for local small businesses on corporate governance and formation issues and negotiated commercial contracts in-house at a publicly traded company.

Education

Seattle University School of Law, J.D., cum laude; Student Commencement Speaker; Executive Business and Marketing Editor and Member & Alumni Subcommittee Chair, Seattle University Law Review; Research Assistant to Professor Sara K. Rankin

Seattle University, Master of Sport Administration and Leadership

Seattle University, B.S., Sport and Exercise Science, minor: Theology and Religious Studies, cum laude; Dean’s List; Division I Intercollegiate Athletics: Member, Seattle University Women’s Golf Team

Admissions

Washington

Languages

Mergers and Acquisitions

• Represented West Coast-based forest products manufacturer in equity financing and multiple asset acquisitions of mill properties and redwood fence board manufacturing and distributing operations in northern California.
• Represented an Alaska seafood company in the acquisitions of the outstanding membership interests and substantially all the assets of various seafoods companies and processing facilities in Alaska and Washington.
• Represented an Oregon-based seafood company in its acquisition of five fish processing facilities in Kodiak, Alaska.
• Represented the minority members of an espresso machine manufacturer in their equity sale and rollover to an Italian home appliances company.
• Represented a Canadian asset fund in its acquisition of a California fruit and nut tree nursery and its related production orchards.
• Represented a Washington recycling and transportation business in its acquisition of substantially all the assets and real property of a metal and commercial and demolition recycling company in Snohomish, WA.
• Represented a Washington recycling and transportation business in its stock sale and equity rollover to a global asset management fund.
• Represented a consulting and project management firm in the carve out and divestiture of its governmental consulting and defense contracting business and represented its shareholders in the shareholders’ stock sale to a global project management firm.
• Represented the sole member in the sale and equity rollover of membership interests of a material handling solutions company.
• Represented an Alaska Native Corporation in its acquisition of substantially all the assets of a directional drilling company located in Washington.
• Represented an Alaska Native Corporation in its acquisition of all the membership interests of a general contracting business located in Alaska.
• Represented an Alaska Native Corporation in its acquisition of the membership interests of a coach tour business headquartered in Alaska, serving the Pacific Northwest.
• Member of the team that served as counsel to a joint venture’s acquisition of the fishing vessels, fishing rights, and other fishing assets of various Alaskan companies operating in the Bering Sea.

Other Corporate Experience

• Provides counsel to a sustainable fishery in its general corporate matters.
• Provides counsel to a Washington-based timber company regarding corporate governance matters.
• Prepares and negotiates commercial agreements for a wood products manufacturer.
• Represented an industrial equipment supply company in a shareholder buyout transaction.
• Represented the issuer, a US manufacturer of paper goods, in its latest $6 million preferred unit offering.
• Represented the issuer, a healthcare technology company, in its Series C financing and convertible note debt financing.
• Represented an institutional investor in its $12 million investment in Series B of a medical software company.
• Represented an institutional investor in the $4 million investment of Series Seed of a medical software company providing doctors with an integrated charting platform.
• Represented an institutional investor in the $7.5 million investment Series B of a medical software company providing streamlined services in hospitals.
• Represented an Alaska-based seafood company in its $175 million refinancing.
• Represented a Washington-based seafood company in obtaining a $160 million syndicated credit facility to support its seafood processing operations.

Insights & Presentations

• Panelist, “LawYours: Diversifying the Legal Profession,” Seattle University School of Law, August 2023
• “For Richer or Poorer: Incentivizing Meaningful Investments in Qualified Opportunity Zones” (comment), 44 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 1227, 2021 
• “Socially Responsible Investing and Qualified Opportunity Zones,” 41 ST. BAR ASS’N BUS. L. SEC. 6, 2020
• Memorandum on the Effects of AB5 and Dynamex on the Motor-Carrier Industry for Megan Lutes and the 2020 Transportation Lawyers Association Annual Conference, April 7, 2020

• Trailblazer Award, awarded by the Seattle University School of Law Asian Law Students Association, 2024
• CALI Excellence for the Future Award, Corporate Tax
• CALI Excellence for the Future Award, Contract Drafting

Professional

• Association for Corporate Growth Seattle Y20 2023–2025 cohort
• Puget Sound Deal Network, Advisory Committee, 2023 - present and Member 2022 – present
• Stoel Rives’ Corporate Associates Meetings, Chair, 2022-2024
• Stoel Rives’ Associates Committee, firm-wide Co-chair, 2024 and Seattle Office Representative, 2023–2024
• Stoel Rives’ Recruiting Committee, Member, 2023–2024

Civic

• National Association of Cambodian American Lawyers, Founding Member, President-Elect, and Board Member 2025 – Present
• Asian Bar Association of Washington, Board of Directors, 2023–present; Member, 2020–present 
• National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, Member, 2023 – present
• ABAW/CISC/ACRS Pro Bono Clinics, Volunteer Attorney, 2023– present
• Legal Foundation of Washington Associates Campaign for Equal Justice, Committee Member and Firm Co-Chair, 2022 – 2024; Statewide Campaign Co-Chair, 2024.