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Nicole Snyder

Director of Finance and Operations

800 W. Main Street, Suite 1750, Boise, ID 83702
P 208.383.3939
OVERVIEW

Nicole oversees all aspects of the firm’s finance and operations, managing the financial services department, real estate portfolio, and related operational matters.

Nicole guides and directs the financial activities of the firm. She works closely with Holland & Hart’s management committee, managing partner, and practice group leaders to assist the firm in achieving its strategic goals. 

Nicole joined Holland & Hart in 2001 and became a partner in 2010.  As an attorney, she practiced in the firm’s corporate group representing businesses in complex mergers and acquisitions and all matters of corporate governance and contracting. She also counseled on employment matters connected to business acquisitions, layoffs, and executive compensation.

Nicole previously served a three-year term as one of the five members of Holland & Hart’s Management Committee, which governs the management and strategic direction of the entire firm. She also previously served as the Boise office Administrative Partner and the firm's Corporate Practice Group Leader.
 

EXPERIENCE

Experience

Corporate Law

Nicole works with clients in a variety of industries, including technology, retail, construction, mining, healthcare, engineering, waste management, agriculture, and education. She assists clients in all phases of corporate law, including:

  • Complex mergers and acquisitions
  • Debt and equity financing
  • Venture capital opportunities
  • Investment and financing
  • Corporate formation and structure
  • Governance and compliance
  • Restructuring
  • Recapitalization


Nicole has served as transaction counsel for over 50 mergers and acquisitions, representing both buyers and sellers in small day-to-day acquisitions to transactions valued at over $100 million.

She also provides outside general counsel and contracting advice for companies with national and international operations.

Employment Law

Nicole counsels businesses on workplace and workforce management matters:

  • Drafting and negotiating executive employment agreements, including benefit packages and non-compete agreements
  • Severance agreements and employment separation counseling
  • Compliance with wage and hour, leaves, and discrimination laws
  • Compliance with Federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notices
CLIENT RESULTS

Client Results

Corporate Law

  • Quality Thermistor, Inc. in its sale to CTS Corp for $80 million

  • An Idaho-based wood products company in six strategic acquisitions and divestitures

  • An environmental waste management services company in an $87 million acquisition of additional industrial wastewater disposal operations

  • Varsity Contractors, Inc. shareholders in their sale of national janitorial operations to Kellermeyer Bergesons Services

  • A Utah-based aluminum manufacturing company in its sale for $92 million

  • An Idaho-based RV dealership in its sale to a national company

  • A northwest restaurant franchise business in its sale

  • A Mexico-based manufacturing company in its sale

  • A national vitamin-manufacturing company in its sale

  • A construction component manufacturing company in an international private equity financing
PRACTICES

Practices

Mergers and Acquisitions
Emerging Growth
Securities and Capital Markets
Venture Capital and Private Equity
Trade Secrets and Non-Competes
Corporate
NEWS AND INSIGHTS

News

Holland & Hart Ushers in Four New Women Leaders, 09/23/2021
Holland & Hart Attorneys and Practices Ranked in 2021 Chambers USA, 05/20/2021
Nicole Snyder Discusses with Law360 the Transition to Virtual Deal-Making, 12/11/2020
Holland & Hart Attorneys and Practices Ranked in 2020 Chambers USA, 04/23/2020
Holland & Hart Announces New Firm Leadership in 2020, 01/01/2020
Nicole Snyder and Sara Berry Named 2019 Leaders in Law by Idaho Business Review, 09/03/2019
Nicole Snyder Quoted in Dealreporter Article "Bayer/Elanco: US antitrust review could be eased by shifting market, broad portfolios, industry sources say", 08/22/2019
Chambers USA 2019 Ranks Holland & Hart Lawyers and Practices, 04/25/2019
Chambers USA 2018 Ranks Holland & Hart Lawyers and Practices, 05/03/2018
Chambers USA 2017 Ranks Holland & Hart Lawyers and Practices, 05/26/2017
Chambers USA 2017 Ranks Holland & Hart Lawyers and Practices in Idaho, 05/26/2017

Publications

"Drafting Commercial Contracts: Eight Important Provisions During a Pandemic," Holland & Hart News Update, 07/22/2020
"Ready for Departure," Today's Veterinary Business, 06/03/2019
"7 Must-do's Before you Sell," Today's Veterinary Business, 04/01/2019
"It's Your Move," Today's Veterinary Business, 02/08/2019
"The Devil's in the Details," Today's Veterinary Business, 12/03/2018
"Seal the Deal," Today's Veterinary Business, 10/01/2018
"Idaho Legislature Repeals 2016 Changes to Non-Compete Law," Employers' Lawyers Blog, Co-Author, 04/09/2018
"New Concerns for Employers and HR Departments post-Equifax Cyber Breach," Holland & Hart News Update, Co-Author, 09/18/2017
"Non-compete Laws: Idaho," Practical Law Company, 06/2012, updated through 2020
"Mini-WARN Acts: Idaho," Practical Law Company, 05/2012, updated through 2020

Speaking Engagements

"Health Law Webinar - Healthcare Mergers and Acquisitions: Key Legal Issues," 08/23/2018
"Corporate and Private Veterinary Practice: Buy/Sell/Benefits and Pitfalls," American Veterinary Medical Law Association, 07/15/2018
"Hot Topics for In-House Counsel," Presentation to local in-house counsel, 07/10/2018
"CEO Succession Planning," Association of Corporate Counsel, Boise Chapter, Moderator, 01/17/2017
EDUCATION AND ADMISSIONS

Education

University of Michigan Law School
J.D., 2001
  • Associate Editor, University of Michigan Law Review
University of San Diego
B.A., 1997
  • magna cum laude

Bar Admissions

Idaho
RECOGNITION

Recognition

  • Idaho Business Review, Leaders in the Law Award, 2019
  • Idaho Business Review, Idaho Women of the Year Award, 2015
  • Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Corporate/Commercial, 2011-2021
  • Idaho Business Review, Accomplished Under 40, 2011
  • Mountain States Super Lawyers® Rising Stars, Business/Corporate, 2008, 2009, 2011-2015
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC AFFILIATIONS

Professional and Civic Affiliations

  • Idaho State Bar Business and Corporate Law Section, Member and Past Chairperson and Governing Council, 2002-present
  • Idaho Shakespeare Festival Board of Trustees, Member, 2019 - present
  • National Association of Corporate Directors, Northwest Chapter/Boise, Advisory Council Member, 2016
  • TerraLex Idaho Representative, 2014-2017
  • Boise Art Museum, Past Member and Past President of the Board of Trustees
  • Idaho State Bar Diversity Section, Founding Member
  • Idaho Women Lawyers, Board of Directors, 2007-2009
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