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Julie M. Woolley

Julie Woolley is an associate in Baker Hostetler’s Columbus office. She focuses her practice on transactional business law and is responsible for handling a variety of corporate matters for both public and privately held companies, including entity formation, mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, financing transactions, entity selection and analysis, business planning, and other corporate matters.

Ms. Woolley devotes a significant portion of her time to the representation of public companies in connection with negotiating and structuring various kinds of mergers and acquisitions. In securities matters, she has represented clients in connection with public debt offerings and Rule 144A offerings, as well as private capital-raising efforts.

Ms. Woolley has experience representing mutual and stock insurance companies and other regulated entities in transactional and regulatory matters. She spends a significant amount of time on state regulatory matters affecting dental practice management companies.

Ms. Woolley also represents clients who have special needs in the field of energy cooperative law, such as issues related to capital credits and financing transactions through the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation. She also has experience in preparing municipal ordinances and reviewing municipal contracts.

Finally, Ms. Woolley has experience in general corporate and business matters, including entity selection analysis, business planning, employment agreements, confidentiality agreements, non-competition agreements, and shareholder agreements.

While in law school, Ms. Woolley externed with the Honorable Thomas J. Moyer, Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court.

Ms. Woolley’s article, “A Proposal to End the Stalemate in the Caspian Sea Negotiations,” was published in the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution in 2003 (under the name Julie M. Folger), and her thesis, “Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia and their Social, Political & Economic Ties on Mainland China,” received the Alfred H. Sweet Prize at Washington & Jefferson College for the most competent piece of research in the field of history.

Ms. Woolley is a member of the American (Business Section), Ohio State, Columbus and Electric Cooperative Bar Associations. She is actively involved in the West Virginia Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership program and serves on its Corporate Board. Ms. Woolley is also a member of the Family Advisory Council at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and serves as a mentor in the Ohio Supreme Court’s Lawyer to Lawyer Mentoring Program for new lawyers.

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11/21/2011	Woolley Comments on Dispute Resolution in Ohio State Alumni Magazine