Profile
Lisa Schaures is a shareholder in the firm’s Corporate Practice. Lisa guides privately held companies, private equity firms, and social ventures through high-stakes mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, capital markets transactions, corporate governance matters, restructuring, and commercial contracts. A trusted advisor, she leverages deep industry insights across key sectors—ranging from technology and government contracting to health care, housing, and business services—to help clients pursue their strategic goals.
Lisa regularly acts as outside general counsel for her clients, negotiating and executing deals while keeping their broader objectives in focus. Her ability to assemble and coordinate cross-functional teams means clients receive efficient guidance without losing sight of the business outcome driving each matter. Lisa’s advanced tax training, including an LL.M. in Taxation from the University of Washington, combined with her broad transactional practice, helps her to identify and address issues that often span multiple disciplines in a single engagement.
Lisa also focuses her practice on family offices and tax-exempt organizations, counseling families and nonprofits on formation, governance, tax-exempt compliance, lobbying restrictions, fundraising law, and collaboration with both nonprofit and for-profit entities. She has authored multiple chapters of the Washington Nonprofit Handbook and speaks frequently on family office and nonprofit legal issues, planned giving, and board governance.
Lisa is recognized by Best Lawyers in America for Tax Law, Nonprofit/Charities Law, and Corporate Law. She previously taught transactional law as an adjunct professor at Seattle University School of Law and serves on the boards of the King County Sexual Assault Resource Center and YWCA of Seattle-King-Snohomish, reflecting her deep ties to the Pacific Northwest community.
Concentrations
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Commercial transactions
- Joint ventures
- Corporate governance
- Nonprofit and tax-exempt structuring and compliance
Áreas de Atuação
Experiência
- Advised technology systems company on multiple acquisitions and expansions into new jurisdictions.°
- Advised technology systems company on F-reorganization and equity rollovers.°
- Advised online platform on share buy-back transaction.°
- Advised private equity firm on various independent sponsor joint ventures.°
- Advised private equity firm on acquisitions of four affordable housing communities.°
- Advised software start-up on initial investment round.°
- Advised government contracting company on major contracts, executive compensation and employment agreements, and governance matters.°
- Advised health care system on tax-sensitive structuring of asset acquisitions.°
- Advised grant-making organization on licensing agreement for promotional campaign.°
- Advised corporate foundations in developing philanthropic program, including employee assistance funds, disaster relief fund, and grant-making initiatives.°
- Advised family office on structure, governance, philanthropic programs, and succession planning.°
- Advised public charities regarding governance, fundraising, tax compliance, and mergers and acquisitions.°
°The above representations were handled by Ms. Schaures prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
- Adjunct Professor, Transactional Law, Seattle University School of Law, 2018-2021
Reconhecimento & Liderança
- Listed, Best Lawyers in America, 2018-2026
- Tax Law, 2018-2026
- Nonprofit/Charities Law, 2025-2026
- Corporate Law, 2024-2026
- Recommended, The Legal 500, Not-For-Profit (Nonprofit and Tax Exempt Organizations), 2022-2024
- Listed, Washington Rising Stars, Nonprofit Organizations, 2013-2018
- Recognized, Thomas Neville Pro Bono Award, Washington State Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division, 2010
- Washington State Bar Association, 2007-Present
- Member, Business Law Section
- Member, Corporate Counsel Section
- Member, Taxation Section
- Counsel, Nonprofit Legal Assistance Clinic, King County Bar Association, 2010-Present
- Member, Washington Women in Tax, 2015-Present
- Board Member, King County Sexual Assault Resource Center, 2023-Present
- InvestED, 2009-Present
- Heritage Advisory Council, 2016-Present
- Board Member, 2009-2015
- Board Member, YWCA of Seattle-King-Snohomish, 2015-Present
- Member, Seattle Philanthropic Advisors Network, 2012-Present
- Fred Hutch Planned Giving Advisory Committee, member, 2016-2019
Credenciais
- LL.M., Taxation, University of Washington School of Law
- J.D., University of Oregon School of Law
- B.A., Washington State University
- Oregon
- Washington