Anna prides herself in giving advice that steers businesses away from legal problems and keeps the focus on your bottom line. She devotes the necessary attention and care to successfully navigate complicated legal issues faced by entrepreneurs including forming your business, securing financing and memorializing arrangements among business owners. She also has firsthand, intimate knowledge of the myriad operational challenges faced by her corporate clients ranging from contract negotiation to regulatory compliance to corporate board and shareholder issues. Are you buying or selling a business, or contemplating a joint venture? Anna’s skills and experience can minimize expense and surprises.
Practice Highlights
- General Business
- Represented many clients starting, operating, financing and selling small- to mid-sized businesses.
- Business Sales and Purchase
- Represented a national company in the transfer of all company-owned stores.
- Represented a national company in buying multiple business with a total value in excess of $90 million.
- Represented a regulated company in the sale of a corporate division.
- Served as North Carolina counsel in a $60 million sale of a business.
- Business Loans and Securities Offerings
- Represented the issuer in a $28 million bond issuance.
- Represented a company receiving an $18 million credit facility.
- Served as North Carolina counsel for a company receiving a $60 million credit facility.
- Served as North Carolina counsel for a foreign bank issuing €119 million credit facility to a North Carolina company.
- Represented companies in multiple private placements of securities.
Presentations, Publications & Events
- Speaker, "Recovery Zone Facility Bonds," Henderson County Partners for Economic Development, November 18, 2009.
- Speaker, "Entity Formation," NC LEAP Class, September 24, 2009.
- Speaker, "Business Law," A-B Tech Young Entrepreneurs Camp, July 21, 2009
- Speaker, "Private Placements," A-B Tech Fast Trac Class, November 5, 2008
- Speaker, "Business Law," A-B Tech Young Entrepreneurs Camp, July 23, 2008
- Organizer, NC LEAP WNC Launch, June 13, 2008
- Speaker, “Due Diligence,” Basics of Business Law CLE Program, North Carolina Bar Association Foundation, May 2008
Professional Affiliations
- American Bar Association
- Business Section Member
- Membership Chair, Legal Opinions Committee
- North Carolina Bar Association
- Nominations Committee Member, 2008-2010
- Business Section Member
- Council
Member, 2004-2007
- NC
LEAP (North Carolina Lawyers for Entrepreneurs Assistance Program)
- Vice Chair, Steering Committee 2009-2010
