Overview
Dawson Kirkland works with Smith Anderson’s Corporate practice, where she advises a broad range of business clients on mergers and acquisitions and financial transactions.
Prior to joining Smith Anderson, Dawson practiced corporate law in the New York City office of a global law firm.
Areas of Focus
Credentials
Recognition
- Editor and Academic Events Committee Member, New York University Journal of Law and Business
Clerkships
- Summer Law Clerk to the Honorable Chief Justice Mark Martin, Supreme Court of North Carolina
Education
- New York University School of Law, J.D., 2018
- Dean’s Scholarship
- University of Virginia, B.A. with distinction, 2015
Bar & Court Admissions
- New York
- North Carolina
Affiliations
- New York University School of Law
- Mentor, Women’s Mentorship Program
- Member, Alumni Association
- University of Virginia
- Mentor, Virginia Alumni Mentoring
- Member, Alumni Association
Experience
- Represented a Nasdaq-listed bank holding company in its assumption of all customer deposits and certain other liabilities, and acquisition of substantially all loans and certain other assets, of a bridge bank, as successor to the failed bank subsidiary of a Nasdaq-listed bank holding company, from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as receiver for the bridge bank.
- Advised a provider of clinical trial contracting and payment services, and its investors, in its merger with a provider of complementary services.
- Advised the majority owner of a leading provider of retail staffing services in a definitive agreement to sell his interest to the company in a management buyout.
- Advised a leading pharmaceutical and biotech contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) in a definitive agreement to acquire a preferred provider of cGMP Biostorage and pharma support services for an undisclosed amount.
