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Vicky Beasley has an extensive corporate practice representing private and public domestic and multinational companies and quasi-governmental entities in investment fund formation (including domestic and international sponsors and investors), business combinations (including domestic and international mergers, acquisitions, stock and asset purchases, reorganizations, and joint ventures), project finance transactions (including energy, real estate, infrastructure projects), corporate finance transactions (including secured and unsecured debt financings and venture capital financings) and general corporate governance matters. Her experience permits her to represent the business interests of fund sponsors on fund formation, strategic acquisitions of portfolio companies through equity and debt financing and general corporate matters for portfolio companies to prepare for divestiture. While at Patton Boggs, she has also assisted international institutional investors in negotiating private equity and real estate investments and co-investments ranging from a couple of million dollars to hundreds of millions in commitments.
In addition to her corporate practice, Ms. Beasley has significant experience advising on election law and voter protection strategic planning and implementation. She served as director of Legal Outreach & Planning for a major partner in the non-partisan Election Protection program during the 2004 Presidential Election cycle – an initiative that provided pro bono assistance to groups and individuals with the goal to ensure that eligible and qualified voters were able to vote during the 2004 election cycle. For her Election Protection efforts, she received the National Bar Association’s Presidential Achievement Award in 2005. Ms. Beasley has remained an active member of the voter protection community during each major election cycle while at Patton Boggs.
Before joining the firm, Ms. Beasley served as an associate at a major international law firm. While there, she was a member of the group that advised a global alternative asset manager with more than $90.5 billion under management. Her work included fund formation and the purchase and divestiture of portfolio companies in a variety of sectors. She also had experience in project finance (including the largest bank financing for construction of the two largest independent power projects in the United States at that time) and general corporate transactional matters on behalf of public and private clients.
While in law school, she was awarded a Human Rights Internship Fellowship to work in Johannesburg, South Africa. She returned to Johannesburg as the first student from Columbia Law School to participate in a formal exchange program with the University of Witswaterand School of Law.
Professional Affiliations:
Virginia Bar Association
District of Columbia Bar Association
Board of Directors, Arts and Technology Public Charter School, Washington, D.C. (former member)
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