Andrea Canfield

Andrea Canfield is a partner in Stoel Rives’ Corporate group. She 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.

She is an active 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 in its acquisition of Liquor Stores USA North Inc., d/b/a Brown Jug, the largest retailer of liquor, wine, and beer in Alaska.
• Represented Chugach Alaska Corporation in its acquisition of REX Electric & Technologies, LLC, a Chicago-based electrical and technology services company.
• Represented Cook Inlet Region, Inc. as transaction and finance counsel in its acquisition of Portage, Inc., an Idaho-based engineering and environmental remediation company, and its subsidiaries.
• Represented an Alaska Native Corporation in obtaining a $300 million syndicated credit facility used in part to refinance senior secured notes and other indebtedness.
• Represented Rule Steel Tanks, Inc. (Idaho-based) in the sale of its Diamond Z business to Screen Machine Industries, LLC.
• Represented Koniag Development Corporation in its acquisition of Glacier Services, Inc., a software services provider to oil companies.
• Represented an Alaska communications company in its acquisition of an IT solutions company.
• Represented an Alaska Native corporation in the sale of a general civil construction company and affiliates.
• Represented an Alaska Native corporation in a 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 EPC 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 biofuels producer in a financing transaction to fund expansion and modernization.
• Member of a team that represented a 15-state ranching operation in its corporate restructuring.

Honors & Professional 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; Business Law Section; International Law Section; Anchorage Bar Association

Civic Activities

• Member, Subcommittee on Elders & Children, Alaska WINGS – Working Interdisciplinary Network of Guardianship Stakeholders, 2021–present
• Member, ABA Free Legal Answers Program, 2021–present
• Member, Abused Women’s Aide in Crisis, Board of Directors, March 2020–present
• Guest Speaker, Corporate Counsel Section, Alaska Bar Association (2021) – “Mergers & Acquisitions in a COVID World”
• Guest Speaker, Path to Prosperity Program, Bristol Bay Development Fund, LLC (2021) – “Business Structures: Choosing An Entity For Your Business”
• Member, University of Alaska Anchorage Legal Studies Program Advisory Committee, 2019–present
• Volunteer Coach, Alaska Arctic Heat competitive girls softball organization, 2015–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