2010 Biobootcamp Presenter
Attorney, Holland & Hart LLP
Ms. Oakes is an experienced corporate attorney with more than two decades of extensive transactional and boardroom experience representing clients in a variety of industries including software, internet, mining, natural foods, consumer products, banking, insurance, consulting, and medical products. She has represented a variety of public and private companies in mergers and acquisitions and in venture capital and private equity financings. Ms. Oakes acts as outside general counsel for several companies, and regularly advises clients with respect to general business matters, business and intellectual property strategies, establishment of strategic relationships, executive compensation, and formation of new business entities. She also has extensive experience drafting and negotiating a wide variety of agreements including purchase agreements, limited liability company agreements, stockholders agreements, employment agreements, severance agreements, confidentiality agreements, non-compete agreements and license agreements.
Prior to joining Holland & Hart LLP, Ms. Oakes spent several years as the Chief Legal Officer, Vice President and Corporate Secretary of a software company with operations in Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Singapore and Japan. In addition to the Legal department, Ms. Oakes was also responsible for management of the Human Resources department. Ms. Oakes has also been a partner in two other law firms' Denver offices.
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