Andrea Canfield is a partner in Stoel Rives’ Corporate group. Andrea advises Alaska Native corporations and privately held, small and middle market companies in mergers and acquisitions. Andrea also counsels small business owners and startup companies in corporate governance, commercial transactions, and debt financing. Andrea is a member of the firm’s ad hoc Corporate Pro Bono Committee, Culture Committee, and Women Lawyers Affinity Group.
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
• Represents startups, emerging growth companies, and investors in connection with business formation, founders’ issues, and financing.
• Represented Afognak Native Corporation, an Alaska Native Corporation, in its acquisition of the largest retailer of liquor, wine and beer in Alaska, Liquor Stores USA North Inc., d/b/a Brown Jug, a Nevada corporation.
• Represented Chugach Alaska Corporation, an Alaska Native Corporation, in its acquisition of REX Electric & Technologies, LLC, a Chicago-based company that provides electrical and technology services to general contractors.
• Represented Cook Inlet Region, Inc., an Alaska Native Corporation, as transaction and finance counsel in its acquisition of an Idaho-based engineering and environmental remediation company, Portage, Inc., and its subsidiaries.
• Represented an Alaska Native Corporation in obtaining a $300 million syndicated credit facility used in part to refinance its senior secured notes and other existing indebtedness.
• Represented Idaho-based Rule Steel Tanks, Inc., in its sale of its Diamond Z business to Screen Machine Industries, LLC.
• Represented Koniag Development Corporation, an Alaska Native Corporation, in the acquisition of Glacier Services, Inc., a company that provides software services to oil companies.
• Represented an Alaska communications company in its acquisition of an IT solutions company.
• Represented an Alaska Native corporation in its sale of a general civil construction company and its affiliates.
• Represented an Alaska Native corporation in its 1031 sale and acquisition of Anchorage commercial real property.
• Represented shareholders in the sale of their interest in a power and communication line construction company to a publicly held engineering, procurement, and construction service provider.• Represented Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc. in its acquisition of the assets of Green Lake Capital, LLC, an owner of commercial solar power systems.
• Member of a team that represented a Minnesota-based producer of biofuels in a financing transaction to fund its ongoing expansion and modernization project.
• Member of a team that represented a 15-state ranching operation in its corporate restructuring.
HONORS & ACTIVITIES
Professional Honors and Activities
• Selected as one of “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business” (Alaska) by Chambers USA (Corporate/M&A), Up and Coming, 2020–2023
• Selected by the Alaska Journal of Commerce as a Class of 2023 Top Forty Under 40 honoree
• Named to The Legal 500’s inaugural M&A Powerlist—USA Region, 2023
• Listed in the Alaska Business Legal Elite, 2023
• Member, The National Black Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 (Alaska)
• Selected as Member, Lawyers of Color “Hot List” 2020
• Recipient, Stoel Rives LLP Andrew Guy Pro Bono Award, 2018
• Member, The UAA Legal Studies Program Advisory Committee
• Member, Alaska Bar Association
• Member, Business Law Section, Alaska Bar Association
• Member, International Law Section, Alaska Bar Association
• Member, Anchorage Bar Association
Civic Activities
• Member, Subcommittee on Elders & Children, Alaska WINGS – Working Interdisciplinary Network of Guardianship Stakeholders, 2021 to present
• Member, ABA Free Legal Answers Program, American Bar Association, 2021 to present
Member, Abused Women’s Aide in Crisis, Board of Directors, March 2020 to present• Guest Speaker, Corporate Counsel Section, Alaska Bar Association, 2021 (Topic: “Mergers & Acquisitions in a COVID World”)
• Guest Speaker, Path to Prosperity Program, Bristol Bay Development Fund, LLC, 2021 (Topic: “Business Structures: Choosing An Entity For Your Business”)
• Member, The University of Alaska Anchorage Legal Studies Program Advisory Committee, 2019 to present
• Volunteer Coach, Alaska Arctic Heat, competitive girls softball organization, 2015 to present
Education
• University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 2014; Digest Editor, Virginia Journal of International Law; Community Service Chair, Black Law Students Association
• Delaware State University, M.B.A., 2011, cum laude
• Delaware State University, B.A., Political Science, 2010, summa cum laude; Editor, Hornet Newspaper
Admissions
• Alaska
