Biography

Cassy represents clients throughout the business life cycle, from entity formation, to venture capital financings and private equity investments, to restructurings and joint ventures, to owner exits and dissolutions.

She has particular experience representing clients in mergers and acquisitions, such as stock and asset sales, mergers and change of control transactions. Cassy also regularly serves as outside general counsel to companies on more straightforward legal compliance matters as well as matters involving nuanced legal strategy.

Cassy works closely with clients to understand the nuances of their businesses and goals. She uses this knowledge to draft and revise complex transactional agreements, including purchase agreements, licensing agreements, joint venture agreements and commercial contracts. Cassy also drafts corporate governance documents governing the relationship between companies and their shareholders, such as corporate by-laws, operating agreements and shareholder agreements. Cassy also represents clients in reorganizations, recapitalizations, divestitures and spin-offs and other restructurings to maximize shareholder investments.

Passionate about serving emerging companies, Cassy counsels early-stage founders on strategic business decisions. She helps these clients with entity formation, financing and protecting founder rights.

Cassy works with businesses of all sizes in a variety of industries, including architecture and design, construction, accounting, IT, security and defense, retail, food services, data management and pharma.

Cassy represents clients throughout the business life cycle, from entity formation, to venture capital financings and private equity investments, to restructurings and joint ventures, to owner exits and dissolutions.

She has particular experience representing clients in mergers and acquisitions, such as stock and asset sales, mergers and change of control transactions. Cassy also regularly serves as outside general counsel to companies on more straightforward legal compliance matters as well as matters involving nuanced legal strategy.

Cassy works closely with clients to understand the nuances of their businesses and goals. She uses this knowledge to draft and revise complex transactional agreements, including purchase agreements, licensing agreements, joint venture agreements and commercial contracts. Cassy also drafts corporate governance documents governing the relationship between companies and their shareholders, such as corporate by-laws, operating agreements and shareholder agreements. Cassy also represents clients in reorganizations, recapitalizations, divestitures and spin-offs and other restructurings to maximize shareholder investments.

Passionate about serving emerging companies, Cassy counsels early-stage founders on strategic business decisions. She helps these clients with entity formation, financing and protecting founder rights.

Cassy works with businesses of all sizes in a variety of industries, including architecture and design, construction, accounting, IT, security and defense, retail, food services, data management and pharma.

Before Fox Rothschild

Prior to joining Fox Rothschild, Cassy was a corporate associate for a boutique law firm in Los Angeles. She has also been a corporate associate at two prominent startup and venture capital law firms in Silicon Valley. While earning her law degree, Cassy was a summer associate at a renowned international law firm focused on emerging companies and the technology industries, and a judicial extern for the Honorable Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Bar Admissions

  • California

Education

  • Harvard Law School (J.D., 2014)
  • University of California, Berkeley School of Law (2014)
    • 3L Exchange Program
  • Columbia University (B.A., 2009)