Laura joined Sandberg Phoenix in 2023 and is a member of the Business Law Practice group. She enjoys assisting clients in negotiating successful transactions for both for-profit and non-profit business development.
With a broad range of experience representing parties to commercial transactions, Laura has represented lenders and borrowers in connection with loan financing for construction loans, tax-credit financed loans, and other asset-based loans, and also provides guidance to purchasers and sellers in real estate development and investment projects.
In addition, Laura is experienced with workouts, restructurings, and commercial collections, including bankruptcy and out-of-bankruptcy restructurings, collections litigation, and receiverships. She has represented Chapter 11 debtors, creditors, receivers, and other entities involved with insolvency proceedings, including a Chapter 7 trustee, a committee of unsecured creditors, a disbursing agent, and a liquidating trustee.
Laura is committed to improving her community through public service. She served for eight years as the Executive Director of the Keyway Center for Diversion and Reentry (formerly known as Center for Women in Transition), a St. Louis-based nonprofit organization that provides housing and other critical services to women, leading the organization through significant growth and expansion. In that role, she gained real-world experience in leading a non-profit business. Laura holds a certificate in business management for nonprofit leaders from Washington University and has taught a course on nonprofit leadership and management at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Laura is also a proud foster mom.
Prior to working at Sandberg Phoenix, Laura served as an Attorney Advisor for the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission and as a Staff Attorney for the U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
