Biography
Pamela's practice primarily focuses on business and tax law.
She represents private, public and nonprofit businesses throughout the region in the full range of business transactions, providing a customized approach to solving each client’s unique problems. Co-Chair of the firm’s Food & Beverage Practice Group, Pamela has an unusual depth of experience benefiting companies in this important industry.
Pamela often serves her clients in the role of general counsel. She especially enjoys the meaningful and productive relationships this role allows her to develop with company decision-makers, including executives, owners and board members. In this role, she often works closely with her colleagues in the areas of employment, intellectual property protection and litigation. She is also Co-Chair of the firm’s Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Practice Group, helping clients navigate issues related to corporate responsibility.
In particular, Pamela represents both buyers and sellers in all types of strategic relationships involving the purchase, sale or combination of businesses. In addition to food industry clients, she has represented many health care, aerospace and hospitality clients in this area.
Pamela assists business clients of all sizes through the full business life cycle, including choice of entity and entity formation (especially partnerships and limited liability companies), shareholder management, real estate transactions, distribution agreements, franchising arrangements, commercial agreements and business terminations.
In her tax practice, Pamela assists clients, especially partnerships and limited liability companies, with a wide range of local, state, federal and international tax matters, including strategic tax planning. She assists a wide variety of tax-exempt organizations with their corporate, state and federal tax matters, including initial organization, federal tax exemptions and reorganizations. Putting this knowledge to work, she has served on the boards of a wide range of nonprofits.
Pamela is also a member of the firm’s Cannabis Law practice group and advises businesses entering the legalized marijuana market on business and tax matters, including mergers and acquisitions.
Before Fox Rothschild
Prior to joining Fox, Pamela was a principal with Riddell Williams.
Bar Admissions
- Washington
Education
- University of Puget Sound (J.D., cum laude, 1991)
- Santa Clara University (B.S., 1988)
Memberships
- American Bar Association
- King County Bar Association
- Washington State Bar Association
Honors & Awards
- Included in a list of Top Women Attorneys, a compilation of Super Lawyers, by Seattle Met Magazine (2018)
- Named among Washington's "Super Lawyers Top Women Attorneys"
- Selected to the "Best Lawyers in America" list for Corporate Law in Seattle, WA by Best Lawyers (2021-2026)
- Selected to the list of “Super Lawyers” for Mergers & Acquisitions in Washington (2003-2025)
- Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Rated™ as AV® Preeminent™ 5.0 out of 5*


