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After completing her clerkship, Shelley began her practice with a large law firm in New York City, representing private companies in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and private equity financing transactions. Shelley's New York practice also included representing sovereign nations in offerings of debt securities. In 2002, Shelley was transferred to the New York firm's London office where her practice focused on high-yield debt offerings and other financing transactions.
Shelley returned to Arizona in 2004, and her practice now focuses primarily on representing clients in a variety of business transactions and corporate governance matters, including representation of both public and private companies in securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity financings and other significant business transactions. Her practice also includes assisting public clients in securities laws compliance matters, including periodic reporting and corporate governance issues, and representing growth companies in establishing strategic relationships, joint ventures, technology licensing and distribution relationships, executive employment and compensation arrangements and other matters.
Shelley's representative clients have included: iCrossing, Inc., The Inventure Group, Inc., ILX Resorts Incorporated, MedAire, Inc. and Nero Inc.
Education
J.D., summa cum laude, Cornell Law School, 1999; Cornell Law Review, Article Editor; Order of the Coif; Boardman Prize
M.A., New York University, 1996; McCracken Fellow
B.S., magna cum laude, Arizona State University, 1995; Flinn Scholarship; Regents' Scholarship; ASU Department of Political Science Junior Fellow
Clerkships
Southern District of New York, Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum
Practice Areas
Business
Corporate and Securities
Bar Admissions
New York, 2000
Arizona, 2005
Professional Activities
State Bar of Arizona, Securities Regulation Section (Executive Council; Member at Large)
Association of the Bar of the City of New York
American Bar Association, Section of Business Law
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