Health Law Bio

Introduction - Health Law Bio

Lisa is a member of Fredrikson & Byron’s Health Care, Corporate, Business and Tax, and Mergers & Acquisitions Groups. Lisa also co-chairs the firm’s Private Equity Practice Group, as well as its initiative focused on women in business, Counsel for Women.

Lisa is a shareholder with more than 20 years of combined business and legal experience. She represents mid-market clients, many in the health care and medical industries, in business transactions, including buying and selling businesses, raising money privately, refinancing, recapitalizing, and forming joint ventures and strategic alliances. 

Lisa has a strong business background and acts as general counsel to her clients, advising them on a wide range of issues that arise in their day-to-day operations, such as sales of products, shareholder buy-outs, and employment disputes. Prior to practicing law, her professional background was in corporate finance, where she worked in the financial planning and cash management areas of Fortune 500 companies.

As a business lawyer, Lisa takes what she knows about her clients’ business goals and balances that with what she has been trained to do as an attorney. Her philosophy of doing deals is to make sure that anything that can go smoothly, does go smoothly.

Education

• William Mitchell College of Law, J.D., summa cum laude
• University of Minnesota, M.B.A. Finance
• Georgetown University, B.S. Foreign Service, cum laude

Bar Admissions

• Minnesota

Practice Areas

• Corporate
• Private Equity & Venture Capital
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Health Law
• Aging & Disability Providers
• Agribusiness & Cooperatives
• Tax Planning & Business Organization
• Emerging Business
• Life Sciences
• Investment Management
• Commercial Law

Representative Experience

• Sale of multi-location specialty ophthalmology practice to Vision 21
• Sale of various multi-location dental practices to American Dental Partners
• MEDNETWorld.com in its private offering
• Spectrum Plastics Group in its acquisitions of Dynacept, Peerless Injection Molding, Protogenic and Spectrum Plastics Molding Resources
• Spell Capital Partners in its sale of Copperfield to Coleman Cable
• PW Eagle in its acquisition of Uponor ETI
• USPoly in its acquisitions of WL Plastics and Uponor Aldyl
• PW Eagle in its refinancing with Fleet Capital/Bank of America
• Spell Capital Partners in its formation of Spell Capital Partners Fund I and Fund II

Selected Publications & Presentations

• Panelist, “Trends in Market Studies and Financing for Senior Housing,” Care Providers of Minnesota 2010 Assisted Living and Senior Housing Summit, August 25, 2010
• “Government Attention on Private Equity Could Mean Changes for the Industry,” co-authored with Timothy Nelson and Leigh-Erin Irons, FredALERT: Private Equity, April 2, 2009
• Speaker, The Collaborative Growth Series - Private Equity, February 3, 2009
• Speaker, Current Trends in Financing, Fredrikson & Byron Private Equity Conference, May 22, 2008
• “Private Equity Transactions and Implications” (panelist), The Collaborative’s Private Equity Seminar, February 2007
• “Exit Strategies: A Key to Attracting Long Term Investors,” Minnesota Venture Finance Conference, November 2005
• “Exit Strategies: Selling or Going Public,” F&B’s Leadership Series, February 2004

Professional Activities

• Minnesota State Bar Association, former Legislative Coordinator, Business Law Section
• American Bar Association

Community Involvement

• Hope Chest for Breast Cancer, Putt for the Pink Committee Member