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 with clients on the buy and sell side of transactions to achieve their business goals through creative problem solving and a fresh perspective. Monica works closely with clients in industries such as fisheries, timber, agriculture, consumer products, recycling, and technology.

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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 an Alaska-based seafood company in its acquisition of all outstanding membership interests in a Washington-based seafood processing company.
• 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 the shareholders of a Washington recycling and transportation business in the sale of their stock 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 owners of an insurance agency and its related subsidiaries in the sale of the owners’ membership interests to a national insurance broker.
• 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.
• Represented a private equity firm in its acquisition of the assets of an adventure tourism business in Alaska.
• Represented a private equity firm in its acquisition of the membership interests of two related touring and travel companies in Alaska.
• Represented a private equity backed software company in its acquisition of all the shares of a complementary software company.
• Represented a transportation and recycling company in its acquisition of all the shares of a hauling and container services company in Washington.
• 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

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

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 WASH. 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

Press Releases

• 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
• Stoel Rives’ representative on Advisory Committee and member of the Puget Sound Deal Network
• Stoel Rives’ Corporate Associates Quarterly Meetings, Chair
• Stoel Rives’ Associates Committee, firm-wide Co-chair, 2024 and Seattle Office Representative, 2023–present
• Seattle office Recruiting Committee, Member, 2023–present

Civic

• Asian Bar Association of Washington, Board of Directors, 2023–present; Member, 2020–present 
• ABAW/CISC/ACRS Pro Bono Clinics, Volunteer Attorney, 2023–present
• Associates Campaign for Equal Justice, Committee Member and Firm Co-Chair, 2022, 2023
• 1L Virtual Coffee and 1L Mentorship Program, Seattle University School of Law, Attorney Mentor, 2021–present