Victoria H. Sitz

Professional Memberships

Association of Corporate Growth, Nebraska Chapter, Board of Directors, 2015-present

Society of Corporate Governance Professionals

Nebraska State Bar Association

American Bar Association, Business Law, Intellectual Property and International Sections

Omaha Bar Association

Career

Tori is an accomplished transactional attorney and is the Chairman of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions subcommittee.

Tori focuses her practice on securities, domestic and international mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, corporate governance, corporate compliance, capital markets transactions and other general corporate matters.

Tori provides counsel to clients on public and private securities matters, including regulatory and disclosure obligations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and stock exchange listing requirements, primary and secondary securities offerings, private placements of debt and equity securities and other capital markets transactions. Tori also assists private equity fund and investment advisers on structuring, regulatory compliance and capital market transactions including compliance obligations under the Securities Exchange Act, the Investment Advisers Act and the Investment Company Act.

Tori regularly works with public and private clients in connection with structuring, negotiating and completing domestic and international mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and strategic alliances. Additionally, she represents early-stage and growth-stage companies with full life-cycle support and capital formation.

She also routinely advises companies, their officers and boards of directors on corporate governance best practices, including board and committee operations and other global corporate compliance matters including global anti-corruption compliance.

Tori’s energy and natural resources industry experience includes:

- Assisted next-generation biodiesel technology company in $45.5 million private offering and joint venture structure for the construction and operation of 50-milliongallon-per-year biodiesel plant.

- Representing North America’s fourth-largest ethanol producer and a public company in connection with its Hart-Scott-Rodino filings in connection with its acquisitions and divestitures.

- Represented next-generation biodiesel technology company in its international restructuring and the negotiation of joint venture structures for the construction and operation of biodiesel plants in Canada, Malaysia and other ASEAN countries.

- Advising a public ethanol plant with the negotiation of an asset management agreement for 100 percent of the plant’s input and output.

Prior to joining the firm, Tori served as the VP and Assistant General Counsel for an international public company headquartered in Omaha. She leverages her in-house counsel experience in international mergers and acquisitions, public securities, international corporate restructuring, corporate governance and global corporate compliance for the benefit of the firm’s clients.