Introduction
Liz helps public and private companies raise money, comply with complex regulations and navigate executive compensation and transition matters. She advises on equity and debt financing transactions, ongoing SEC compliance, stock exchange listing standards, executive compensation planning and disclosure, interactions among boards, executives and shareholders, transactions in securities by insiders, and other corporate governance matters. Liz also has experience with mergers and acquisitions and general corporate and business counseling.
Education
- University of Iowa College of Law, J.D., 2006, with highest distinction
- University of Northern Iowa, B.A., Quantitative Economics, 2003, summa cum laude
Bar Admissions
- Minnesota, 2006
Practice Areas
- Securities
- Corporate
- Executive Compensation & Benefits
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Public Companies
- Life Sciences
Representative Experience
- Partners with publicly-traded corporations with market capitalization ranging from $20 million to $44.7 billion on ongoing SEC compliance, executive compensation and succession, and corporate governance matters
- Represented Medtronic, Inc. on public offerings of debt securities, ranging from $1 billion to $3 billion in principal amount
- Represented Titan Machinery Inc. on a 144A offering of senior convertible notes, in the aggregate principal amount of $150 million
- Represented Craig-Hallum Capital Group, LLC as underwriter for a $21.3 million follow-on offering of common stock by Datalink Corporation
- Represented AGA Medical Holdings, Inc. on its $1.1 billion sale to St. Jude Medical, Inc.
- Represented durable medical products manufacturer on its initial public offering and listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market
- Represented local private equity fund in a series of investments in a local spa retailer
- Represented publicly-traded wind energy components manufacturer in numerous strategic acquisitions and securities financing transactions
Selected Publications & Presentations
- “Roadmap for Selecting Diverse and Qualified Board Members,” co-authored with Alexis Hamilton, Summer Associate, FredNEWS: Corporate & Securities, November 2012
- “An Issuer’s Guide to Cost Basis Reporting,” co-authored with Vincent L. Pham, Summer Associate, FredNEWS: Corporate & Securities, November 2012
- Presenter, “The JOBS Act in Ninety Minutes: What Business Lawyers Need to Know,” Sponsored by the American Bar Association Business Law Section and the Center for Professional Development, July 2012
- “Executive Succession Planning,” Aspen Publishers Corporation, Vol. LXXXIII No. 10, May 2012
- “The JOBS Act: Easing Exempt Offering Restrictions,” co-authored with David M. Lynn, Morrison & Foerster LLP, Business Law Today, May 2012
- “Executive Succession Planning,” FredNEWS: Corporate & Securities, March 2012
- Presenter, “Exits, IPOs, International Exchanges & More,” 25th Annual Minnesota Venture & Finance Conference, October 12-13, 2011
- “Update from the Practicing Law Institute’s 40th Annual Institute on Securities Regulation,” co-authored with Robert Ranum, FredNEWS: Corporate & Securities, December 8, 2008
- “Practical Guidance on Executive Compensation Disclosure,” FredNEWS: Business, April 2008
- “Multiple Representation in Shareholder Derivative Suits: Do the Current Rules Do Enough to Promote Informed Consent?” 9 Delaware Law Review 2, 2007
Professional Activities
- Business Law Section of the American Bar Association (member of the Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities and the Subcommittee on Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Section 16)
- Drafting Committee, ABA Business Law Section comment letter on Section 12(g) JOBS Act rulemaking
- Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals
- The National Association of Stock Plan Professionals
- Executive Leadership Team, Twin Cities Go Red For Women Campaign
Honors & Distinctions
- Order of the Coif
- Justice Holland Prize for Corporate Scholarship, 2006
- Judicial Extern to the Honorable Randy J. Holland, Delaware Supreme Court, 2005
- Journal of Corporation Law, 2004-2006