Ms. Stark's practice is focused on corporate finance transactions including public and private debt and equity offerings; corporate governance and disclosure issues; mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; and venture capital financing.
Ms. Stark has represented public and private companies in connection with financings and corporate restructurings as well as numerous debt and equity securities offerings, and debt tender offers. Equity transactions have included initial public offerings, secondary public equity offerings, and private equity and venture capital investments.
Ms. Stark provides general corporate and securities advice to many clients and her work has included disclosure advice and crisis management related to litigation and financial restatements for public company clients.
Ms. Stark has advised boards of directors about fiduciary duties and appropriate processes. She has also advised numerous public companies in connection with the drafting of and compliance with board committee charters.
Ms. Stark has experience in a variety of industries, including oil and gas, LOHAS, medical device manufacturing, technology, mutual funds, microchip manufacturing, telecommunications, and retail.
Prior to joining Holland & Hart, Ms. Stark spent nine years as an attorney at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, LLP.
Ms. Stark is listed in the 2009 and 2010 editions of Chambers USA for Corporate and Mergers & Acquisitions law.
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
Corporate Finance Transactions
 Offering of 2,875,000 Common Units representing limited partner interests in DCP Midstream Partners, LP.;
Initial public offering of $325 million of Common Units representing limited partner interests in Williams Pipeline Partners L.P.;
Initial public offering for wholesale power generation company;
Multiple secondary offerings for publicly-held auto parts retailer;
Issuance of $500 million in Credit Linked Notes (synthetic credit facility);
Issuance of approximately $530 million in new indebtedness for parent company of mutual fund investment advisor;
Initial public offering for communications company;
Representation of underwriter in connection with dual-tracked IPO/private sale transaction;
$2.975 billion in issuances of 144A debt for telecommunications company; and
Public equity offerings by private equity fund as selling shareholder.
Acquisition Transactions
Sale of Associated Content, Inc., to Yahoo! Inc.;
$1.2 billion public tender offer for all the outstanding securities of a medical device manufacturer;
$1.7 billion public tender offer for all the outstanding securities of a software company;
Represented large US conglomerate in numerous stock-for-stock public mergers; and
Numerous cash-for-stock public mergers.
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