Stephanie Fiesta

Stephanie Fiesta is a partner at 3rd Gen Law Group LLP.

Stephanie’s business law practice focuses on complex corporate transactions and general counsel services. She assists a wide variety of clients from small start-up companies to large corporations across multiple industries. She has placed a particular emphasis on working with venture capital-backed technology companies on day-to-day issues as well as assisting in raising capital. Her corporate transactional practice includes representing buyers and sellers in mergers, acquisitions and dispositions as well as representing companies in debt and equity financing transactions. Her general counsel services include assisting companies with formation, corporate governance issues, and drafting and reviewing employment agreements, confidentiality agreements, non-disclosure agreements, non-competition agreements, and equity plans.

In the spring of 2011, Stephanie joined 3rd Gen Law after managing her own practice for over two years. Prior to starting her own firm, Stephanie practiced law for over eight years at WilmerHale, LLP in Washington, DC and two years at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC in Pittsburgh, PA. Stephanie holds a law degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and earned a Bachelor of Science in Finance, magna cum laude, from Boston College, with a minor in International Studies. She is a member of the State Bar of Virginia and the District of Columbia Bar.

The representative matters, below, illustrate Stephanie’s current and recent projects spanning the areas of corporate transactions and general counsel services.

Corporate Transactions and General Counsel

Together with her legal team, Stephanie represented a long-standing government contracting company in spinning off part of its business into a new entity and funding that entity. She continues to assist the company in solidifying its infrastructure, managing shareholder relationships, and managing relationships between the managers and the company.

Recently, Stephanie represented a mobile device detection company in its formation and equity capital raise from both founders and outside strategic partners. She continues to advise the company on day-to-day corporate issues related to agreements among shareholders, company equity plans, employment relationships and corporate governance issues.

Stephanie represented a strategic analytics company as they simultaneously acquired a business and raised equity capital from venture capitalists. She continues to advise the company on daily matters, including matters relating to corporate governance and employment relationships.

Stephanie provided acquisition advice in her representation of a publicly traded intelligent management network software company in its purchase of certain assets of a division of a privately held software company.

An established IT solutions company relies on Stephanie to act as an outsourced in-house lawyer. She provides many legal functions to the company, including working with internal business contacts to establish a new line of business, helping to manage other lawyers outside of the firm, and assisting in daily corporate governance issues, employee matters, and compensation matters.