About Ascent Law Partners, LLP

As entrepreneurs and business executives ourselves, we have walked in your shoes at start-ups, mid-market businesses, and Fortune 500 companies. We provide pragmatic, straight-forward business and transactional advice at all stages of development to help you achieve your business goals.
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Lawyers who are business people.

We have started businesses and have held key executive positions in enterprises with nine and ten digit revenues. We continue to invest in, manage, and operate businesses alongside our law practice—in real estate, telecommunications, clean technology, heavy equipment, and others.
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Our experience relates.

We use our experience to counsel businesses as they confront their life-cycle decisions, opportunities, and crises. Ascent Law Partners have successfully handled hundreds of these matters over the last three decades.

Our Value

We believe our operating perspective and business experience make a qualitative difference in how we counsel and advise companies as they confront their life-cycle decisions and opportunities. Our approach is more pragmatic and results oriented, and this resonates with both start-up entrepreneurs as well as seasoned CEOs of more mature companies. Our clients appreciate that we are not only technically proficient through decades of experience practicing law, but are a constructive extension of their management team, helping solve problems to drive their business forward.

Our boutique model and technology-leveraged overhead structure also allows us flexibility to work with clients in ways that meet their unique needs. Legal and business advice is efficiently delivered by a partner with personal experience dealing with issues like those faced by the client.

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The Team

Van Katzman

206.264.3076
vkatzman@ascentllp.com

Steve Seward

206.920.4129
steve@ascentllp.com

Joel Paisner

206.420.4923
joel@ascentllp.com

Ambur Hoffman

206.795.4728
ambur@ascentllp.com

Bryce Counts

206.856.8651
bryce@ascentllp.com

Ian Thompson

206.696.4220
ian@ascentllp.com

Jessica Desmond

206.535.8411
jessica@ascentllp.com

Sarah Bosworth

425.221.0623
sarah@ascentllp.com

Mark Kroloff & First Alaskan Capital Partners, LLC

Strategic Relationship

Van Ness Feldman

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Practice Areas

We have years of experience working with innovative start-up companies as well as mature mid-market and Fortune 500 businesses. We have handled hundreds of transactions across a broad spectrum of industries.
  • Alternative energy
  • Angel and venture capital investment
  • Clean technology
  • Contracting
  • Electric utility operations
  • Environmental services
  • Food processing
  • Infrastructure
  • Life Sciences
  • Manufacturing
  • Natural resource development
  • Private equity
  • Professional services
  • Real estate
  • Software (SaaS, PaaS)
  • Solid waste and recycling
  • Telecommunications

Capabilities

Our capabilities during the life cycle of a business

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Startup

  • Business formation
  • Seed capital from angels, venture capital & private equity
  • Founder equity & stock option plans
  • Business planning
  • Professional connections

02.

Growth

  • Debt and equity financings
  • Strategic acquisitions
  • Business development deals & negotiations
  • Customer & vendor contract relationships
  • Joint ventures
  • Employment
  • Licensing and IP strategy

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Mature

  • Risk management
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Tax planning
  • Succession planning
  • Business counseling
  • Policies

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Exit

  • Sale of equity or assets (strategic, private equity)
  • Mergers
  • Management buyouts
  • Splits
  • Dissolutions & wind-up

Get in touch.

We’d love to talk. Call or email us today to set up a time to chat about what Ascent can do for your business.

1191 Second Avenue, Suite 1800
Seattle, WA 98101
206.535.8411