Sheila Seck
Seck & Associates
Sheila focuses her practice on assisting entrepreneurs as they launch their business and encounter change as they grow. She works closely with growing companies, established businesses, and investors to develop solutions to the broad range of challenges they encounter in running their businesses. She works with clients on managing founder relationships and ownership issues, corporate governance for new and established companies, protecting intellectual property, financing issues, including state and federal securities laws, and preparing business owners to sell their companies. Sheila works with many companies as they prepare to sell their business or acquire new ones by advising them through the buy and sell process, including the often complex allocation of risk in mergers and acquisitions.
Sheila combines her legal experience with a practical understanding of the needs of her clients. She has developed a culture at Seck & Associates where attorneys develop an in-depth understanding of the firm’s clients so that practical solutions can be applied to meet client’s goals and objectives. The firm doesn’t believe in a “one size fits all” approach to providing legal or consulting services. Sheila also connects clients with many resources in the business community, including investment bankers, capital resources, bankers, and HR resources.
- Rockhurst University
- B.S. | Business Administration
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- Missouri University of Science and Technology
- B.S. | Mechanical Engineer
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- Washington University in St. Louis
- J.D.
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- Managing Director
- Seck Advisor Group
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- With over 20 years of experience working with buyer and sellers and advising them on deal structure and strategy we noticed a need for a more customized and personal approach for small to middle-market companies. And that is why we formed Seck Advisor Group. Seck Advisor Group understands that many entrepreneurs are not familiar with and may find intimidating the process of buying, selling, or implementing strategic plans within one’s company. We therefore take a more personalized approach, by first understanding the “why” behind our clients’ companies and the “what” of the day-to-day operations, before we get to the “how” of the actual strategic evaluation, purchase or sales transaction. Once we understand their goals, we educate them through the process, position the company in the best light to align with their goals, create strategic plans customized to their objectives, and capitalize on our negotiating skills to close deals.
- Managing Partner and Founder
- Seck & Associates LLC
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- Our focus is business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions and recapitalizations. We advise a broad range of businesses, from start-ups to small to middle market businesses along the complete business life-cycle including formation of corporations and business structures, partnership agreements, and vender and other agreements. When the time is right, we help our business clients position themselves for sale. We asssit clients in obtaining financing, either from friends and family, from traditional lenders or from VC firms. We have represented several small tech companies in going public and recently assisted in the sale of public company.
- Partner
- Warden Triplett Grier LLP
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- Launched a corporate practice with a group of lawyers in a boutique litigation firm. Developed a mergers and acquisitios practice and represented both buyers and sellers of companies in transactions up to $40M. Assisted clients in forming and structuring and growing their businesses.
- Assistant General Counsel
- Honeywell International
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- Assistant General Counsel for business and commercial aviation manufacturing division of Honeywell International; provided legal services to three Honeywell businesses located in Kansas, Ohio and Florida; negotiated major contracts for Honeywell to provide aviation products to airplane manufacturers on new airplanes; worked on several large strategic acquisitions and divestitures as part of the Honeywell Aerospace mergers and acquisition team.
- Attorney
- Bryan Cave LLP
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- Worked with a large number of businesses, from middle market companies to publicly traded entities in acquisitions and sales of companies; private placements, financings, developing franchises and working on franchise compliance, and licensing technology and other intellectual property.
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- Kansas State Bar
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- The Missouri Bar # 43243
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- Association of Women Lawyers
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- Kansas Bar Association
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- Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
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- Missouri Bar Association
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- Kansas
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- Kansas
- Kansas Supreme Court
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- Missouri
- The Missouri Bar
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- Free Consultation
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Intellectual Property
- Trademarks
- Trademark Litigation, Trademark Registration
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship Estate Administration, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
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