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Elizabeth A. Davis

Of Counsel
Portland

Elizabeth Davis advises businesses and nonprofits—from startups to established market leaders—on corporate and transactional matters including mergers and acquisitions, business formation, corporate reorganizations, succession planning, and general corporate counseling.

Liz has extensive transactional experience, providing counsel to businesses of all sizes and types, including middle-market companies, startups, and private equity funds. She has worked with businesses of varied ownership structures, including venture-backed, employee-owned, family-owned, founder-owned, and publicly traded companies. Liz is familiar with the industry-specific nuances and regulatory requirements of many deals, having advised clients in the senior housing, health care, child care, and technology sectors. She has experience representing buyers, sellers, and operators of senior housing facilities on corporate governance matters and in a variety of deals, including mergers and acquisitions, sales/leasebacks of real estate, joint ventures, and financings, including HUD financing.

Experience 

Representative Matters

Liz counseled:

  • KinderCare Education, as co-counsel, in acquisition of Rainbow Child Care Centers (150 locations)
  • KinderCare in its acquisition of Crème de la Crème Child Care Centers (47 locations in 14 states)
  • Inspired Healthcare Capital in its acquisition of Multiple Senior Housing Facilities in several states

Professional Highlights

Pro Bono Experience

Represented Family Promise of Tualatin Valley in acquisition of transitional housing project as part of their “Bridge to Home.”

Professional Activities

Campaign for Equal Justice (Oregon Legal Aid), Associate Representative, 2019-2022

Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York, Volunteer, 2015-2017

Junior Achievement of Central New York, Volunteer, 2010, 2011, 2016, 2017

Recognition & Accomplishments

Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, Corporate Law, 2021-2025; Nonprofit/Charities Law, 2023-2025; Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2024-2025

Thomson Reuters, “Oregon Rising Star,” Business/Corporate, 2024

Speaking Engagements

“Startups & Emerging Companies Summer Series – Growing Your Business the Right Way,” Lane Powell, June 22, 2023

“Mergers & Acquisitions and Real Estate Anatomy of a Transaction,” LeadingAge Oregon, January 26, 2023

“Future Leaders - Anatomy of the Deal,” Commercial Real Estate Women Network, January 18, 2023  

Credentials 

Education

Albany Law School of Union University (J.D., summa cum laude, 2015)
Albany Law Review, Executive Notes and Comments Editor

Union College (B.A., magna cum laude, 2012)
Pi Sigma Alpha

Admissions

Oregon