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Marisela Peña Gonzalez is a practical business and transactional lawyer with extensive experience in successfully guiding clients through complex joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, capital raising transactions, and general business concerns. Marisela provides clients with quality legal representation in an efficient manner, using her years of experience to help clients anticipate the unexpected, which saves clients valuable time and unnecessary expenses. Having worked in house, Marisela understands the need for practical risk mitigation advice that allows her clients to achieve their business objectives. Marisela has worked with privately-held businesses and emerging companies in a broad range of industries including, real estate, manufacturing, midstream energy, oilfield services, healthcare and technology. In her joint venture practice, Marisela has negotiated transaction documents for billions of dollars in development projects, including office, multifamily, industrial, single-family, and energy infrastructure projects. With her experience representing both sponsors and investors, Marisela understands the concerns of the various players and is able to help negotiate compromises to get the deal done. In her M&A practice, she’s represented both buyers and sellers across various industries and has the experience to lead a successful transaction from start to finish. As a first-generation lawyer and college graduate, the principals of diversity, equity and inclusion are very important to Marisela. She is actively involved in the recruitment, retention and mentoring of diverse attorneys. She also values the opportunity to use her Spanish language skills to assist Spanish-speaking clients in various business matters.
