Practice Areas ■ Mergers and Acquisitions ■ Closely Held Businesses and their Principals ■ Succession Planning ■ Business and Tax Planning ■ Estate and Succession Planning ■ Licensing and Technology ■ Bankruptcy, Workout and Loan Restructuring Representative Transactions ■ Acquisitions, disposition and mergers of closely held businesses ■ Business financings, restructurings and recapitalizations ■ Succession planning for businesses and owners ■ Estate and trust planning ■ Shareholder and partner disputes ■ General business planning Speeches ■ “Dissecting the Purchase Agreement,” Lorman Education Services (July 2006) ■ “Negotiating, Drafting and Closing Merger and Acquisition Agreements,” National Business Institute (March 2008) ■ Speaker, “Advanced Family Law Seminar,” MNCLE (December 2009) ■ “Merger and Acquisition Process,” National Business Institute (January 2012) ■ “Business Law Bootcamp,” National Business Institute (January 2013) ■ “Mergers and Acquisitions from Start to Finish,” National Business Institute (June 2013) ■ “Forming Limited Liability Companies,” National Business Institute (January 2014) ■ “Stock Purchase Agreements,” National Business Institute (April 2014) ■ “Mergers and Acquisitions from Start to Finish,” National Business Institute (June 2014) Professional Organizations and Achievements ■ Member, American and Minnesota State Bar Associations ■ Member, Minnesota Society of Certified Public Accountants ■ Former Instructor of Business Law and Accounting, Augsburg College ■ Former Instructor of Tax Research for the MBT Program, University of Minnesota ■ Minnesota “Super Lawyer“ Work Experience ■ Fabyanske, Westra, Hart & Thomson, P.A., Minneapolis, Minnesota President, 1994, 2000 and 2011 Shareholder, January 1988 to Present Associate, January 1986 to December 1987 ■ Estes, Parsinen & Levy, P.A., Minneapolis, Minnesota Associate, April 1983 to December 1985 ■ KPMG, Minneapolis, Minnesota Tax Accountant, November 1980 to April 1983 Education ■ J.D., William Mitchell College of Law, cum laude, 1980 ■ Institute on International and Comparative Law ■ Kings College, University of London, summer 1979 ■ B.A., Augsburg College, cum laude, 1976 Admissions ■ U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota, 1980 ■ State of Minnesota, 1980 ■ Certified Public Accountant (Inactive), 1978