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Stacey brings extensive experience in securities law, capital markets, and transactional matters, with a career spanning public company reporting, private offerings, governance, and complex corporate transactions. She has advised companies across stages and industries on securities compliance, capital raising, and corporate structuring, and has worked closely with regulators, founders, and investors on issues central to capital formation.

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Before joining Michael Best, Stacey served as the Small Business Advocate and Director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation. In that role, she led the office’s policy agenda, engaged with Commissioners and senior SEC leadership, oversaw the development of the office’s annual Congressionally mandated report, and provided feedback on federal rulemaking and legislation affecting small businesses and their investors. Her work included extensive collaboration with entrepreneurs, investors, and market participants, as well as service on the Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee.

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Stacey previously practiced as outside counsel advising clients on securities compliance, exemptions from registration, governance, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions. Earlier in her career, she worked in private practice and in-house roles focusing on public company reporting, initial public offerings, Blue Sky compliance, Section 16 matters, and complex transactional drafting and negotiation. She also spent more than a decade at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where she directed the Corporate &amp; Commercial Law Program and taught courses in corporate drafting, capital raising, and transactional practice.

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