Brooks Pierce Attorneys Present at UNC School of Law Institute for Innovation's Economic Development Road Show
Brooks Pierce attorneys Jamey Lowdermilk and Mousa Alshanteer presented at the UNC School of Law Institute for Innovation’s Economic Development Road Show in High Point on October 15. They discussed legal considerations for small businesses and best practices for attorneys and entities. The Road Show promotes entrepreneurship, innovation, and small business development in High Point.
Jamey presented “Navigating for Resilience,” sharing best practices for business ownership and preparing for the unexpected. Mousa shared “A Start-to-Finish Overview of Organizations,” highlighting the importance of having trusted, capable advisors—including accountants, consultants, and attorneys—throughout the business lifecycle. He also emphasized the value of strong relationships among partners and a shared commitment to resolving disputes for the greater good.
The UNC School of Law Institute for Innovation provides early-stage legal counsel to new for-profit and nonprofit ventures. Their mission is to teach students the skills and habits of effective lawyering for organizational clients, to provide sound legal counsel to early-stage business and entrepreneurs, serve North Carolina’s innovation economy across a range of communities and constituencies, and offer programs and resources to North Carolina’s entrepreneurial community. The Institute also aims to support economic development of under-resourced communities, with an emphasis on rural North Carolina.
Jamey Lowdermilk is an energetic advocate for small businesses and landowners navigating financial challenges, complex litigation, and strategic resiliency. As a partner at Brooks, Pierce, McClendon, Humphrey & Leonard, L.L.P., she represents businesses and individuals in tough commercial disputes in state and federal courts, including multiple state court trials. She also advises clients, including nonprofits and social entrepreneurs, on establishing new entities and reorganizing existing endeavors. Lowdermilk is a former law clerk for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. Before her legal career, she served as a Presidential Management Fellow with the U.S. Forest Service, where she facilitated internal land management projects and achieved certification in incident qualifications for wildland fire.
Mousa Alshanteer has represented clients of all types and sizes in business matters, such as entity formation and organization, including dissolution and reorganization, corporate governance, and contract drafting and negotiation. He has planned, negotiated, and documented a variety of transactions across several industries, such as mergers and acquisitions (including both purchases and sales) and private equity financing. In his practice, Mousa has advised various health care providers, including physicians, social workers, veterinarians, group practices, hospitals, and surgery centers, as well as other licensees on a wide variety of general business matters, transactional matters, and administrative and regulatory compliance.