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Ska is a partner in Finn Dixon & Herling’s Corporate group. She represents clients in general corporate and domestic and international complex transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and growth equity financings, investments, and corporate governance.
Ska’s practice is focused on representing venture capital, growth equity, and private equity funds, as well as their portfolio companies, in their investment and M&A activities. She also regularly advises private companies (including portfolio companies of fund clients) in general corporate matters, including corporate governance, capital raising activities, strategic commercial agreements, and restructurings.
Representative transactions that she advises on include the following:
- Representing middle-market private equity funds across the life-cycle of their buyout investments, including platform acquisitions, equity financings, add-on transactions, and sale processes.
- Financings involving early-stage and high growth companies, including preferred equity financing rounds, SAFEs, warrants, and convertible notes.
- Stock and asset acquisitions, including carve-out transactions.
She has experience across various industries, such as technology, consumer products, financial services, healthcare, and restaurant/food services, and represents clients in transactions involving companies with domestic and international operations. Ska’s extensive experience across all types of corporate transactions has allowed her to counsel clients on complex and time-sensitive transactions with a practical, business-minded sensibility.
Ska is co-chair of FDH’s Women’s Initiative Network and a member of the firm’s Strategic Planning Committee. Before joining the firm, she practiced in the capital markets group at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York. Originally from Kahnawake Mohawk Territory in Canada, she resides in Stamford, CT with her husband, two children, and three samoyeds.
Honors
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National Aboriginal Achievement Award, Indspire (2010)
Associations
- Inaugural Cohort Member, Indigenous Leadership Circle (Canada)
- Chair of Ad Hoc Young Lawyers Committee, Lawyers Collaborative for Diversity (2021)