Lawyers / Professionals

 
Karl M. Strait       
Partner
One James Center
901 East Cary Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219-4030
T: 804.775.1133
F: 804.698.2184
kstrait@mcguirewoods.com
 

Mr. Strait focuses his practice on securities, corporate governance, and mergers and acquisitions matters. He has extensive experience advising public companies on a range of securities issues, including periodic reporting obligations, insider trading, proxy solicitations, and registered public offerings of securities. His mergers and acquisitions clients include both private and publicly traded companies. He also advises clients on the use of financial derivatives, including the negotiation and documentation of over-the-counter derivatives using the industry standard ISDA Master Agreement.


Practices & Industries
Publications
  • "Compensation Disclosures Bring Governance Changes" (co-authored with Jane Whitt Sellers), Executive Counsel, November/December 2006
 

EDUCATION

University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas, J.D., with Honors, 1995

  • Law Review: Member, Texas Law Review, 1993-1995

Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois, M.Div., cum laude, 1991

Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, B.A. Economics, 1983

  • Honors: Phi Beta Kappa
 
 

ADMITTED

Virginia 1995

 

PLACE OF BIRTH

Aurora, Colorado