Bio

Danielle Hunt assists clients throughout the Pacific Northwest to meet their corporate, transactional, and regulatory compliance needs at all stages of a company’s lifecycle. Danielle’s practice focuses on business formation, mergers and acquisitions, commercial transactions, and corporate governance for profit and nonprofit clients. Danielle advises clients on all manner of corporate transactions, such as the purchase and sale of businesses, structuring and overseeing key transactions, drafting and negotiating contracts and documents, coordinating due diligence efforts, assisting with licensing agreements, and providing business and strategic advice. She also serves as outside legal counsel to some of the region’s major financial institutions in the area of vendor management, including vendor contract review and negotiation. Danielle also assists clients in highly regulated industries, in particular, financial institutions, cannabis, alcoholic beverages, and healthcare. She helps clients navigate ever-evolving legal challenges, regulatory uncertainty and change, and new market growing pains. Her unique experience in this area means that she is frequently called on to structure, draft, and negotiate merger and acquisition transactions, as well as key strategic agreements relating to complex state and federal matters in these regulated industries. For clients in the cannabis industry, Danielle advises on a wide variety of legal matters surrounding cannabis, marijuana, industrial hemp, and CBD—specifically matters related to transactional, regulatory, compliance, mergers & acquisition, and ownership issues. She also assists in the preparation of cannabis-specific policies for ancillary business (including financial institutions) and assists landlords, intellectual property companies, manufacturers, and investors in structuring and documenting strategic business relationships with cannabis-related companies. Danielle serves as partner-in-charge of the firm’s Seattle, Washington office.