Nancy Laethem Stern

Nancy Laethem Stern represents publicly and privately held companies in acquisitions and disposition transactions, including mergers, asset and stock acquisitions and dispositions and employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) transactions. Ms. Stern generally focuses on providing practical and efficient solutions in transactions priced at less than $250 million.

Ms. Stern counsels ERISA fiduciaries on the exercise of their duties in the context of a corporate transaction and works closely with other members of our ESOP practice. She helps ESOP companies with transactional issues, corporate governance matters, securities issues and subordinated debt and equity-based financing arrangements. Ms. Stern has extensive experience coordinating complex ESOP transactions.

Ms. Stern counsels companies on matters of general corporate law and corporate governance.

Ms. Stern is an active member of The ESOP Association and serves on its Finance Committee. She is also a member of the National Center for Employee Ownership and the Association for Corporate Growth. She has served on the Board of Directors and as Corporate Secretary of Reading is Fundamental in Chicago, and is currently the Secretary of the Parents' Association of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.

Ms. Stern received her law degree and undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Michigan (J.D., 1994; A.B., with distinction, 1991). She served as law clerk to the Honorable Robert H. Cleland, United States District Judge (1994-1996). Ms. Stern is admitted to practice in Illinois.