Sandra G. Stoneman practices in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financings, business law and finance and securities regulation. Ms. Stoneman advises buyers and sellers in domestic and cross-border acquisition and divestiture transactions. She also regularly counsels emerging businesses in structuring and negotiating venture capital and other private equity financing arrangements, corporate governance matters, executive compensation issues and licensing and other technology arrangements.

In 2008, Ms. Stoneman was selected as a Lawyer on the Fast Track by The Legal Intelligencer. She also was named a Pennsylvania Rising Star in 2006 and 2007. Rising Stars are chosen by their peers as being among the top up-and-coming Pennsylvania lawyers.

Ms. Stoneman is a 1997 magna cum laude graduate of Temple University School of Law, where she was an Articles Editor for the Temple Law Review, and is a summa cum laude graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton.

Areas Of Practice

Venture Capital
Licensing/Strategic Alliances
Securities Law
Business Law and Finance

Representative Matters

Counsel to emerging businesses in structuring, negotiating and drafting venture capital and other private equity financing arrangements and related corporate governance, executive compensation, and securities law compliance issues.
Counsel to technology and life science companies in the structure, negotiation and drafting of various types of licensing and other technology agreements, and joint venture arrangements.
Counsel to buyers and sellers in domestic and cross-border acquisition and divestiture transactions, including assistance with structuring transactions from business, regulatory and tax perspectives.
Counsel to public companies in connection with securities regulation, reporting and financing activities.
Counsel to private equity funds in structuring and making investments in portfolio companies and real estate transactions and preparing offering materials and complying with securities laws in connection with capital raising transactions.

Professional Activities

Epilepsy Foundation of Southeastern Pennsylvania
- Member, Board of Directors
2005 graduate of Leadership, Inc.
Philadelphia Bar Association
- Committee on Women in the Profession
Professional Women's Roundtable
- Member, Board of Directors
- Events Committee co-chair
Member of Advisory Panel for Delaware Valley Chapter of NAUBO's ATHENA PowerLinks program
Participate in legal office hours of Wharton Venture Initiation Program, a program that serves as an incubator for student-run companies

Admissions

Pennsylvania
State Courts of New Jersey
State Courts of Pennsylvania

Education

Temple University School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 1997

Honors and Awards

Named one of Pennsylvania's Lawyers on the Fast Track by The Legal Intelligencer, August 2008
Named a Super Lawyer Rising Star by the publishers of Law and Politics magazine, 2005-2007

Selected Publications

"Judicial and Congressional Back-Door Methods that Limit the Effect of Roe v. Wade," 70 Temple Law Review 633, 1997