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Spencer Fane attorney Vincent Aiello

Spencer Fane attorney Vincent Aiello

Vincent Aiello
Of Counsel

Las Vegas

Andy G. Anderson
Partner

Phoenix

Trace Blankenship
Partner

Nashville

Vincent Aiello helps business owners solve legal problems to secure revenue flow and reduce business risks. As a lawyer and business owner he has firsthand experience handling complex commercial litigation and transactional matters for his clients. His client base spans a broad spectrum of businesses including household-name consumer brands, banks, construction companies, and family ventures. As legal counsel he advises personal family foundations on managing and protecting their wealth. While each of his clients may take on a unique shape or size, they all face complex legal and business challenges, which is precisely where Vincent has focused his commercial legal practice.

Andy Anderson helps clients, from negotiation to closing, in corporate transactions such as debt and equity financings and M&A, allowing them to execute with purpose and speed.

Trace Blankenship regularly advises chief executives, senior management, boards of directors, and entrepreneurs on strategy, execution, and legal requirements of significant business transactions, complex leadership and ownership decisions, and day-to-day operations. He provides responsive day-to-day legal advice on all aspects of corporate operations critical to his clients’ success and growth.

Spencer Fane attorney Tom Cason

Spencer Fane attorney Tom Cason

Tom Cason
Partner

Plano, Dallas

Spencer Fane attorney Colby Clark

Spencer Fane attorney Colby Clark

Colby Clark
Partner

Salt Lake City

Spencer Fane attorney Xander Curl

Spencer Fane attorney Xander Curl

Alexander G. (Xander) Curl
Associate

St. Louis

Tom Cason helps clients navigate complex corporate transactions. He has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, private securities offerings, joint ventures, reorganizations and recapitalizations. In this context, Tom works with clients to gain insight into the unique characteristics and risks of each client’s business to ensure their needs are addressed and the transaction is advanced in an efficient and cost-effective way while not compromising on results.

Colby Clark advises clients on a variety of legal strategies including venture and structure financings, corporate formation, reorganization, business plan optimization, and mergers and acquisitions. Drawing on his personal experience as an executive and business owner, Colby customizes his legal counsel to challenges from emerging growth companies to large public companies with independent directors.

Alexander (Xander) Curl counsels clients on a variety of transactional matters with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, also frequently assisting with corporate governance and commercial contract matters.

James R. (Jim) Dankenbring
Partner

St. Louis

Patrice Douglas
Of Counsel

Oklahoma City

Gerald F. (Jerry) Ehrlich
Of Counsel

Phoenix

Jim Dankenbring represents businesses in mergers and acquisitions, securities matters, complex contract negotiations, and executive compensation.

Patrice Douglas counsels banks, energy companies and utilities on legal, regulatory, and compliance matters. She helps clients navigate the complex regulatory issues they face in today’s economy so they can close transactions efficiently and move forward to realize their goals.

Jerry Ehrlich counsels individual and business clients in the areas of corporate and business transactions, federal income taxation, trusts and estates as well as real estate acquisition, sale, and finance. With a diverse background in many transactional law matters, he prides himself in taking a holistic approach to clients’ problems and identifying key business and legal issues.

Jon L. Farnsworth
Partner

Tampa, Minneapolis

Elizabeth Fast
Partner

Kansas City

Elizabeth Felker
Partner

St. Louis

Jon Farnsworth assists clients with all aspects of business and technology law, motivated by the belief that the best way to drive progress is to empower business owners and executives with innovative solutions. His guiding principle is clear: “Help good people do good things.” With a steadfast conviction that an attorney should foster business, not inhibit it, Jon has built his career on being a trusted advisor, enabling entrepreneurs and companies to innovate, grow, and thrive.

Elizabeth Fast is a partner at Spencer Fane in the Banking and Financial Services group. For more than 20 years, she has been counseling banks, holding companies and other financial institutions on legal, regulatory, and compliance matters.

Elizabeth Felker is a corporate and transactional attorney whose practice focuses on business transactions, employee benefits, and executive and deferred compensation. As a member of the firm’s Business Transactions Practice Group, Liz draws on her experience in mergers and acquisitions, corporate formations and reorganizations, and public and private securities offerings to provide effective, pragmatic solutions to clients’ transactional and other business-related needs.

Jeff D. Figge
Partner

St. Louis

Scott J. Goldstein
Partner

Kansas City

Paul J. Hanley
Partner

Denver

Jeff Figge practices in the estate planning and business transactions groups. In his business practice, Jeff represents privately held and startup entities on formation, sales and acquisitions, complex contract negotiations and implementation, and various organizational, tax, and corporate succession issues.

Scott Goldstein’s practice concentrates in the areas of bankruptcy and reorganization for businesses, representation of secured creditors and creditors’ committees in workouts and bankruptcies, and bond default situations both in federal and state court.

Paul Hanley is a partner in our Denver business transactions and financial services practices. Paul’s corporate and commercial law practice involves mergers and acquisitions, Regulation D and Private Placements, private equity and debt finance, corporate and partnership structuring, commercial loans, family limited partnerships, UCC foreclosures, including strict foreclosures, tax planning, international structuring and transactions, and commercial transactions.

Peter (Pete) Hartweger
Partner

Kansas City

William Hayward
Of Counsel

Plano

James A. Jacobson
Of Counsel

Denver

Pete Hartweger is a partner in the firm’s Business Transactions group. Pete’s emphasis is in mergers and acquisitions, tax, general business, pass-through entities, non-profit and tax-exempt entities, and IRS tax controversies. A large portion of Pete’s practice involves representing small to medium sized closely-held businesses, counseling on contract, employment, tax, licensing, and ownership matters, and the day-to-day issues encountered by these businesses. His clients also include several large organizations, including a few publicly traded companies.

Bill Hayward is a corporate attorney who, for more than four decades, has counseled an array of clients with their business and legal transactions, including real estate, corporate finance, lending, and mergers and acquisitions. He represents clients in a wide variety of industries ranging from startup businesses to well-established corporations.

Whether negotiating a venture capital financing or e-commerce agreement or overseeing regulatory compliance for an investment advisor or investment company, James Jacobson works closely with his clients to further their business goals.

Thomas W. (Tom) Jerry
Partner

St. Louis

St. Louis

Arnold R. Kaplan
Of Counsel

Denver

Tom Jerry is a business attorney principally focused on real estate issues and the day-to-day legal needs of business entities and their owners.

Jay Ji is a member of the firm’s Business Transactions team and helps clients navigate complex legal and regulatory issues so that they can meet the increasing demands of today’s business environment.

Arnie Kaplan has significant experience in public and private offerings, municipal bond financings, loan transactions, tender offers, mergers and acquisitions, and other federal and state securities matters. Arnie advises business entities, political subdivisions, and 501(c)(3) organizations on corporate governance and business matters.

Spencer Fane attorney Jack King

Spencer Fane attorney Jack King

Jack F. King III
Associate

Nashville

R. John Klevorn III
Partner

St. Louis

Justin R. Leck
Partner

Kansas City

Jack King helps businesses ranging from small startup entities to large public companies with responsive and collaborative client service on all corporate and business transactional matters, allowing them to establish and maintain successful operations. He concentrates his practice on business and corporate law, health care law, real estate law, and entrepreneurial and emerging business law.

John Klevorn is a transactional attorney, assisting clients in effectively structuring and executing a wide range of corporate and business transactions, and providing responsive, day-to-day legal services that lead to successful operations.

Justin Leck provides counsel on transactional matters to a wide variety of clients, including privately-held companies, municipalities, and non-profits. He focuses his practice on corporate law and real estate, including transfers and leases of real property, mergers and acquisitions, and providing general advice and services to privately held companies.

James R. (Jim) Loranger
Partner

St. Louis

Spencer Fane attorney Rob Mahon

Spencer Fane attorney Rob Mahon

Robert J. (Rob) Mahon
Partner

St. Louis

Blane R. Markley
Partner

Overland Park

Jim Loranger helps businesses with mergers and acquisitions, financing of development projects using tax credit incentive programs, corporate governance, planning, and other business transactions.

Rob Mahon primarily serves as outside general counsel and lead mergers and acquisitions counsel for clients. He regularly represents private and public companies; family offices, private equity firms, and their portfolio companies; and startups, search funds, and self-funded entrepreneurs, for which he’s handled billions of dollars of transactions.

Blane Markley helps clients navigate the complex and evolving legal framework of health care, so they can more efficiently and effectively deliver care and meet operational goals. His experience in this area includes the representation of hospitals, physician groups, physicians, and other health care providers, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), and other enterprises operating in the health care industry.

Macy L. Matthews
Senior Associate

Plano

Michael L. (Mike) McCann
Partner

Kansas City

Ayesha Mehdi
Partner

Las Vegas

Macy Matthews is a member of the firm’s Corporate and Business Transactions group in the Plano office. She assists clients in all aspects of their business needs, and has experience advising clients on a diverse range of transactional matters, including forming and structuring business entities, asset purchase agreements, corporate governance, and commercial real estate transactions.

Mike McCann has represented several of the region’s largest and most well-regarded companies through business decisions, and mergers and acquisitions that pave the way for their continued growth and success. He was recently recognized for his representation of Boulevard Brewing Company, one of the region’s largest breweries, in its sale to Duvel Moortgat, an independent craft brewer based in Belgium.

Ayesha Mehdi, Esq., is a respected health care attorney based in Las Vegas with extensive experience in regulatory, transactional, and litigation matters. As a partner with Spencer Fane’s health care group, she advises health care professionals and closely-held businesses on corporate, regulatory, and licensure issues, including mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures.

Jessica Merrigan
Partner

Kansas City, Overland Park

Jaime Millán
Mexican Foreign Legal Consultant

Phoenix

Peter (Pete) Mirakian III
Partner

Kansas City

Jessica Merrigan is a partner in the Kansas City and Overland Park offices of Spencer Fane and currently serves as its Co-Chair of the Environment and Energy Practice Group. She counsels clients on environmental matters regarding regulatory requirements and represents them in litigation of environmental claims, including contribution claims under the federal Superfund law.

Jaime Millán provides domestic and international businesses of all sizes responsive day-to-day legal advice on all aspects of corporate law, allowing clients to maintain successful operations and realize growth and expansion opportunities.

Pete Mirakian focuses his practice on corporate governance, securities, mergers and acquisitions, and tax law.

Spencer Fane attorney John Moore

Spencer Fane attorney John Moore

John R. Moore
Partner

St. Louis

Spencer Fane attorney Heather Morris

Spencer Fane attorney Heather Morris

Heather M. Morris
Partner

Kansas City

Michael (Mike) Patterson
Partner

Phoenix

John Moore regularly serves as lead corporate and M&A counsel for search fund, private equity-backed, and self-funded entrepreneurs, as well as traditional private equity funds and family offices. Employing his background in economics and strong, sensible legal knowledge, John is adept at formulating strategic plans for clients and managing a team of attorneys and support staff to effectively and efficiently meet his clients’ goals.

Heather Morris is a member of the firm’s Banking and Financial Services group. She concentrates her practice in the areas of transactional and regulatory banking matters, including mergers and acquisitions, commercial lending, workouts, bankruptcy, and corporate trust.

Mike Patterson helps businesses navigate corporate, compliance, and securities matters. He has extensive experience in domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, equity and debt offerings, foreign direct investment, distribution, agency and licensing matters, and market entry strategies. He efficiently resolves legal matters by identifying key issues, focusing resources, and executing on a plan.

Spencer Fane attorney Sarah Porter

Spencer Fane attorney Sarah Porter

Sarah Porter
Of Counsel

Minneapolis

Gary A. Powell
In Memoriam (1953 – 2024)

Springfield

David C. (Dave) Seitter
Partner

Kansas City

With a legal career spanning over a decade, Sarah has established herself as a highly skilled and dedicated technology and licensing attorney that empowers technology-driven businesses to thrive in the digital landscape, ranging from closely held emerging businesses to publicly trade corporations. She has a deep understanding of the intricacies of technology-based agreements and has successfully represented SaaS companies, resellers, and e-commerce providers, guiding them through the complexities of licensing agreements, intellectual property protection, and compliance matters.

Gary Powell was a founding partner of the firm’s Springfield office, and a member of the Tax, Trusts, & Estates Group. Gary had more than 40 years of experience in estate planning, trust and estate administration, and tax and business transactions. His leadership abilities and expertise with sophisticated estate planning, business succession planning, business formation and acquisitions, and shareholder and buy-sell agreements were evident as he earnestly served clients and supported colleagues.

Dave Seitter simplifies complex business issues critical to his clients’ transactions and responds rapidly to provide legal counseling to dynamic business situations.

Eric J. Steinle
Partner

Kansas City

Ellen E. Stewart
Partner

Denver

Allison Tanner
Of Counsel

Kansas City

Eric Steinle is a partner on the firm’s Corporate and Business Transactions team. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt financing, securities offerings, and corporate governance.

Ellen E. Stewart helps health care clients successfully navigate a myriad of legal issues and regulations so they can effectively deliver patient care while still meeting their business goals. Whether she is assisting clients in mergers and acquisitions, negotiating contracts, or developing corporate compliance programs, Ellen is dedicated to providing her clients with the highest level of transactional counsel and litigation advocacy.

Allison Tanner assists clients in connection with acquiring, selling or merging businesses or assets, as well as financial and real estate transactions. She strategizes with clients to organize and coordinate all the details involved in large corporate or real estate transactions, and assists clients in developing solutions to their transactional issues. She advises business owners and assists them through consultation, education, and interaction on all matters related to growing, selling, and buying businesses.

Stephen Weinstein
Of Counsel

Denver

Nicole Zaworska
Associate

Tampa

Stephen A. Weinstein knows how important employee benefits are when it comes to attracting and retaining good employees. He leverages his experience in this area to make sure that these benefit programs actually do what they are designed to do – contribute to the long-term success of the client and its employees.

Nicole Zaworska represents private and public domestic and international companies, as well as individuals, in a broad range of business and transactional matters, including corporate governance and organizational issues, mergers and acquisitions, and taxation. Her experience also includes a strong background in real estate financing, deal structure, and associated litigation.