With a keen eye for managing risk while helping clients navigate their broader business objectives, Laurie takes a collaborative approach to providing thoughtful legal guidance.
Laurie Konopka represents clients in a wide range of complex strategic transactions, with particular experience in mergers and acquisitions, equity financings and growth investments across diverse industries. She has advised Fortune 500 companies, private equity firms, publicly traded entities and emerging growth companies on transactions spanning the beverage, energy, technology, healthcare, construction and HVAC sectors.
On the M&A side, Laurie has guided clients through acquisitions and divestitures totaling hundreds of millions of dollars in deal value, including cross-border transactions and multi-subsidiary asset sales. Her transactional work encompasses drafting and negotiating purchase agreements, transaction documents, disclosure schedules, and reorganization and equity offering materials. In addition, she has served as outside general counsel to a renewable energy company, advising on strategic investments, financings, restructurings and recapitalizations.
Laurie’s equity experience includes representing companies at various stages of growth in preferred stock financings, convertible note offerings and venture investments. She has handled the full suite of transaction documents associated with these deals, including stock purchase agreements, investors’ rights agreements, voting agreements, rights of first refusal and co-sale agreements, and amended and restated certificates of incorporation.