Industry focus
How I represent clients at Schwabe
After over 10 years of working as in-house legal counsel for timberland investment management organizations, I bring in-depth industry and transactional experience to share with Schwabe’s forest products, corporate, and real estate clients. I have honed my skills at crafting innovative solutions to complex legal challenges, and often assist with timberland transactions, investment structuring, M&A, corporate governance, and legal entity management.
I have significant experience with acquisitions and dispositions, timberland and natural capital investment structuring, joint ventures, risk management, commercial contracts, contract negotiations, leasing, and management agreements. Drawing on my private sector perspective, I am able to combine my legal and business acumen to help my clients meet their objectives.
Experience
- Led acquisition and disposition negotiations, due diligence processes, and closing of substantial timberland and natural capital investments, including extensive experience in cross-border transactions in Europe and South America.
- Provided legal support to a suite of finance and regional operations teams across North America and globally for negotiation of commercial agreements, management agreements, REIT compliance, and governance matters.
- Supported launch, structuring, and operation of both open and closed-end funds, separate managed accounts, and co-investment vehicles.
- Ensured regulatory compliance and environmental certification for GDPR, SFDR, and similar privacy and financial disclosure regimes.
- Advised and executed the establishment of structures across U.S. and global timberland investments.
- Advised investment committees and Boards in the U.S. and globally.
Education
- Willamette University College of Law, Juris Doctor (2013)
- Seattle Pacific University, Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, Minor in Business Administration (2005)
Admissions
- Oregon State Courts
Memberships
- Oregon Forest Industries Council (OFIC), Legal Advisory Committee, member (2024-2025)
- Washington Forest Protection Association (WFPA), Legal Advisory Committee, member (2024 -2025)
- Multnomah County Bar Association, member (2016 – present)
- Oregon State Bar Association, member (2016 – present)
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