Lisa Schaures > Seyfarth Shaw LLP > Seattle, United States > Lawyer Profile
Seyfarth Shaw LLP Offices
999 Third Avenue
Suite 4700
Seattle, WA 98104-4041
WASHINGTON
United States
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Lisa Schaures
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Partner
Career
Lisa counsels privately held companies, startups, social ventures, and nonprofit organizations, as well as boards of directors, across industries through the corporate and tax issues at every stage of growth. Clients benefit from Lisa’s ability to represent them in negotiating and executing deals, as well as acting as outside general counsel.
With an eye toward understanding her clients’ broader business goals, Lisa advises her clients on corporate structures, purchases, mergers and acquisitions, corporate conversions, joint ventures, and has developed creative strategies for complex tax concerns, deferred compensation, and navigating potential conflicts of interest. In addition, she counsels nonprofit organizations on governance, tax exempt compliance, lobbying restrictions, fundraising law, and collaboration with other nonprofits and for-profit corporations.
She prides herself on her holistic approach to understanding her clients’ organization and her ability to build a team that relies on the expertise of her colleagues, while being nimble and efficient to successfully resolve negotiations and close transactions that contribute to her clients’ broader business goals.
Education
- LLM, University of Washington School of LawTaxation
- JD, University of Oregon
- BA, Washington State University
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Government > Government contracts
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious