Julie Smith Bio

Julie is a transactional attorney with a broad general corporate practice who provides general business counsel to both publicly- and privately-owned business entities. She has significant experience in mergers and acquisitions, public and private securities offerings, federal securities law compliance, governance issues, contract negotiations, intellectual property contracts and general commercial agreements. She advises companies, private equity groups and their related portfolio companies, fund managers, large corporations, small business owners and entrepreneurs in a wide variety of industries. Due to the breadth of her general business expertise, Julie frequently functions in an outside “general counsel” role with many of her clients. Prior to her legal career, Julie was a corporate banker who developed and managed a portfolio of commercial and corporate clients.