With more than 12 years of experience in private practice, Lisa Thorsen provides sound, practical counsel and local market expertise on business law matters in Texas and California. As outside general counsel, Lisa provides a range of services, from company formations to corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, asset and stock purchases and sales, debt and dispute settlements, company structuring, and licensing matters.
State Bar of California
ID Number: 259745
Since 2008
State Bar of Texas
ID Number: 24090765
Since 2014
2014 - Current
Thorsen Legal
Professional business attorney services for Texas and California businesses, investors, and entertainers. With offices located in Austin TX and San Diego CA, we provide business law services and advice to clients throughout Texas and California. Each Business Lawyer on our team is committed to serving their clients. We help businesses and business owners form partnerships, corporations, and LLCs; draft their shareholder, partnership, and operating agreements; structure, manage, and govern their business transactions and business contracts; review and write their business sale and purchase agreements; protect their assets; and assist with dispute resolution to avoid costly litigation. In particular, our team of California and Texas attorneys have substantial experience in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts of all types, including partnership agreements, shareholder agreements, operating agreements, shareholder agreements, partnership agreements, contracts for the sale or purchase of a business, and employment contracts that include covenants not to compete. We are skilled in creating corporate governance, managing outside counsel, advantageous business structures, and advising C Level executives. As former business owners and entrepreneurs ourselves, we understand the costs associated with minimizing legal risk, but also the potential greater costs of not doing so. Our law firm takes pride in delivering great customer experience. In an uncertain world, your Austin business lawyer will be there to provide you high quality corporate law, business law, real estate law, technology law, and entertainment law services. And we will do our best to resolve your legal problems to your satisfaction in a timely manner. We strive to build long lasting relationships with our clients based on integrity, trust, and quality service at an affordable cost.
2007 - 2014
Circuit, McKellog, Kinney & Ross, LLP
Supported the Managing Partner of a well established full service boutique corporate law firm. Practice areas included mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions.
2005 - 2008
J.D. (2008) | Law
2000 - 2004
B.A. (2004) | American Studies
Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
Guardianship & Conservatorship Estate Administration, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Eminent Domain, Homeowners Association, Land Use & Zoning, Mortgages, Neighbor Disputes, Residential Real Estate, Water Law