Summary

Stacia is a member of the firm’s Business Group and Mergers and Acquisitions Group, and leads the firm’s Commercial Transactions practice area.

Stacia serves as a strategic advisor to clients with complex business and commercial transactions, including complex global customer agreements, capital equipment projects, supply chain issues, supply agreements, distribution agreements, technology transactions, intellectual property transactions, joint ventures and commercial partnerships, both domestic and global.  Stacia also serves as outside general counsel to several private companies, providing general business advisory services. She also has experience representing private equity funds in platform, add-on and divestiture transactions, as well as representing both buyers and sellers in strategic investments and merger and acquisition transactions.

As a proponent of social enterprises, Stacia is passionate about advising socially responsible enterprises in all industries, focusing on benefit corporation formation. She represented one of the first benefit corporations in the State of Indiana.

Stacia is an actively involved member of the Indianapolis community, serving on several boards and regularly volunteering. She is passionate about teaching and is an adjunct professor of business law at Butler University.

Awards

  • Honoree, Best Lawyers in America, Corporate Law (2021 – present)

All Service Areas

Education

  • Chicago-Kent College of Law (2002)
  • Butler University (1999)

Admissions

  • State - Illinois
  • State - Indiana

Professional Affiliations

  • American Bar Association

    Member

  • Illinois State Bar Association

    Member

Community Involvement

  • Butler University

    Adjunct Professor, Business Law (2013 – present)

  • TCC Gives, Inc.

    Member, Board of Directors (2016 – present)

  • Growing Places Indy

    Member, Board of Directors (2018 – present)

  • Giving Sum

    Member (2015 – present)

  • Make-A-Wish Foundation

    Volunteer (2014 – present)

  • Meridian-Kessler Neighborhood Association

    Volunteer (2006 – present)

  • Kids Dance Outreach

    Member, Board of Directors (2018 – present)

  • Louisville Weimaraner Rescue

    Volunteer

  • College Summit Indiana

    Former Member, Advisory Board (2015)

  • Dance Kaleidoscope

    Former Member, Advisory Board (2012)