Experience

Tangible Law
• On long term leave

  • Dec 2019 - Present


AsheWorks

• United States

• General Counsel

  • Oct 2018 - Dec 2019

  AsheWorks is a modern services provider helping our clients reshape their internal global sourcing and commercial contracting processes. We provide strategic consulting services, paired with legal operations capability to design, operate and automate complete contract lifecycles for Fortune 500 companies and other clients—handling each process from assignment, to negotiation, to signature and billing with seamless stakeholder coordination. AsheWorks is a modern services provider helping our clients reshape their internal global sourcing and commercial contracting processes. We provide strategic consulting services, paired with legal operations capability to design, operate and automate complete contract lifecycles for Fortune 500 companies and other clients—handling each process from assignment, to negotiation, to signature and billing with seamless stakeholder coordination.



AsheLegal

• Spain
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Practice Group Director and Director of Real Estate Legal Services

  • Aug 2016 - Dec 2019

  Ashe Legal Group and its affiliate, AsheWorks, provide legal services, management consulting services, and technology-based workflow and transaction lifecycle management solutions for businesses with high-volume, recurring contracting and compliance activity. We provide access to a community of carefully selected legal service providers and equip those providers with client-directed protocols, content and a service infrastructure to ensure efficient and cost-effective delivery of high-quality legal services. Show less


Lawyers of Distinction
• Law Practice
• Member

  • 2018 - 2018


Papa Murphy's International

• Restaurants
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CORPORATE ATTORNEY

  • Nov 2012 - Aug 2016

  Manage company’s legal group. Advise all company departments on legal matters. Oversee outside counsel. Responsible for every legal aspect of: corporate contracts and transactions; corporate governance and compliance; litigation; corporate store acquisition and leasing; franchisor registration and disclosure compliance; franchisee relationships, issues and compliance; intellectual property establishment and protection. Achievements include:  Involved in every phase of Initial Public Offering, from organizational meeting through bell ringing; monitored and advised on pre-filing and post-filing communications; oversaw documentation of needed changes to corporate structure and stock plan; led due diligence documentation team; integral member of prospectus drafting team.  In first 24 months with the company, closed on 18 acquisitions involving 45 stores, including multi-million dollar deals, which more than doubled the number of company-owned stores. Show less



Knowledge Universe

• United States
• 1 - 100 Employee

• SENIOR ASSOCIATE COUNSEL

  • Jul 2000 - Oct 2012

  Primary legal liaison and adviser to CEO and CFO of key corporate subsidiary. Member of company’s Project Review Board, which prioritizes company needs, assures appropriate workflow and capital allocations, and makes approval recommendations to board of directors. Directed company’s Contracts Legal Group, which analyzes, advises on, and approves broad range of contracts. Also managed all legal aspects of real estate acquisition, development, and disposition, as well as day-to-day issues for over 1,500 properties nationwide. Oversaw and advised field personnel regarding environmental matters. Retained, consulted with, and monitored work of outside counsel and independent experts. Managed attorneys, paralegals and clerical staff. Significant achievements include:  Key player in successful $900,000,000 corporate financing, including overseeing environmental review of over 700 properties and addressing all identified issues in compressed timeframe, while coordinating with and responding to needs of lenders, outside consultants, insurers, and counsel for all parties.  Personally handled legal negotiations and closings of hundreds of complex real estate development transactions, realizing significant savings per year in fees that company otherwise would pay outside counsel.  Teamed with environmental experts to create and implement indoor air quality standards and protocols for all company properties. Provided annual training to all members of Facilities Department, then worked with company’s Education Group to create online training modules that were well accepted by users, reduced training costs, and increased compliance.  Volunteered with company’s Facilities Department building fully equipped playground for Denver Children’s Home. Show less



Williams, Fredrickson and Stark, P.C

• ASSOCIATE

  • Feb 1990 - Jun 2000

  Specialized in representing public agencies and private parties in eminent domain and land use cases. Also involved in litigation representing corporate clients in various commercial matters. Negotiated and prepared necessary documents for land acquisition and commercial transactions. Drafted legal memoranda on complex land use, urban development, real estate and commercial issues. Achievements include:  Represented Oregon Farm Bureau in successful challenge, upheld by Oregon’s appellate courts, to Metro’s proposed expansion of urban growth boundary.  Involved in briefing and arguing several landmark Oregon cases defining limits of power of eminent domain.  Obtained winning results on land use appeals for many pro bono clients as a cooperating attorney for 1,000 Friends of Oregon. Show less