Lawyer Bio : Shandra Stout

Shandra Stout

Winston-Salem

Shandra represents companies in all aspects of the business life cycle, from formation, day-to-day operations and corporate governance to fundamental transactions such as capital raises, mergers and acquisitions, and sales of stock or assets. Her clients range from small, local start-ups to publicly traded national corporations.
 
Shandra focuses her practice on representing borrowers in negotiating and structuring credit facilities and representing companies in mergers, acquisitions and similar transactions. She has particular experience representing restaurant franchisors, both in merger and acquisition work and in negotiating credit facilities.
 
In addition, Shandra represents public companies in securities work, including corporate governance, Securities and Exchange Commission reporting requirements, and private companies in private placement offerings under exemptions from registration with the SEC. 
 
Shandra also devotes time on a pro bono basis to N.C. LEAP (Lawyers for Entrepreneurs Assistance Project) through the North Carolina Bar Association. N.C. LEAP assists low-wealth entrepreneurs with their legal needs in starting or expanding their businesses.

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Professional Activities

Bar Associations: North Carolina Bar Association, Business Committee; American Bar Association
 
Member, Forsyth County Women Attorneys Association
 
Community Advisor to the Winston-Salem Symphony’s Personnel and Governance Committee
 
Admitted to bar, 2007, North Carolina.

Education

B.A. Journalism, 2004, Colorado State University, magna cum laude;  J.D., 2007, Wake Forest School of Law; magna cum laude, Executive Editor of Wake Forest Law Review. 

Prior Legal Experience

Summer Associate, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC, Winston-Salem, NC, Summer 2005 and 2006; Research and Writing Teaching Assistant, Wake Forest School of Law, Winston-Salem, NC, 2005-2007.

Prior Business Experience

Editor in Chief and Managing Editor, The Rocky Mountain Collegian, Fort Collins, CO, 2002-2004; Intern, The Longmont Daily Times-Call, Longmont, CO, Summer 2003.