Laura Hunter

Laura Brower Hunter currently serves as a Special Advisory Consultant to healthcare companies in the HCP domain segments, advising them on strategic and legal issues. 

In addition to having practiced law, Ms. Hunter has direct investing experience as a Limited Partner in two Venture Capital funds, as a private investor in a number of growth and public companies and directs investments in her retirement plan.  She also has director experience, is an expert in corporate governance issues and in advising both private and public company Boards.  Ms. Hunter has operational and administrative experience as the managing partner of the corporate practice of Brobeck, Orange County, from 1999-2002.  In addition, Laura Hunter has been a trusted advisor to her clients, assisting in business plan development, the creation of investor presentations, interviewing senior and executive level management and outside service providers and in the development of business strategy. While practicing law, she regularly attended and contributed to board meetings for substantially all of her clients.  She currently serves as a director of several companies, provides coaching for executive teams and assists them in refining business strategies.

For over 16 years, Ms. Hunter has been a practicing attorney, 13 years (from 1989 to 2003) of which were with the law firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP, focusing on corporate and securities law with an emphasis on technology development and licensing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, sales and divestitures of assets, public and private financings, general corporate counseling and corporate governance issues. Approximately 95% of her practice involved representing venture backed companies in the healthcare industry.  Experience includes approximately: 35 technology transfer, development, licensing and manufacturing agreements, both domestic and international; 75 public offerings; 150 financings for issuers, venture capitalists and investment bankers; and 50 merger and acquisition transactions, including management buyouts, leveraged buyouts and going private transactions.  Ms. Hunter has also formed venture funds.

As a partner with Brobeck, Ms. Hunter regularly attended all board meetings of clients and advised boards on fiduciary duty and disclosure issues.  In that role, most recently, she developed audit and compensation committee charters as well as certification statements for ‘34 Act reports under Sarbanes-Oxley.  She has also sat on the boards of numerous companies, including those of some clients.  From 1999 to 2002, Ms. Hunter was the managing partner of the business and technology practice of Brobeck’s Orange County office.  In that role, she was responsible for all aspects of managing the Orange County corporate practice, including:  hiring, review and compensation of associates and paralegals; developing and managing office group practice budget and office group P & L; training of associates; and interfacing with senior firm management regarding office group performance.  Mrs. Hunter was responsible for implementing a new associate assignment and training program. While on Brobeck’s Associate Review and Development Committee, Ms. Hunter performed annual performance and compensation reviews of associates, and provided recommendations of associates for elevation to partnership.

From 1999-2001, Ms. Hunter was the co-chair of Brobeck’s Life Sciences Practice where she was responsible for developing marketing and client pitch materials; developing a database of life sciences clients; developing and implementing marketing plan for penetrating additional life sciences companies in various geographic areas across the country; and developing data base of attorney expertise.

Representative clients and transactions in the healthcare industry have included such as TheraTx (THTX), Tokos (TKOS), Baxter (BAX), McGaw (MCGW), Quantum Health (QTHR), Birtcher Medical (BRTH), Thoratec Laboratories (THOR), Voxel Corporation (VOXL), Careline (CRLN), Advanced Tissue Sciences (ADTS) and Specialty Medical Laboratories (SPEC).

Ms. Hunter received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Davis, School of Law in 1987 where she was an editor of the UC Davis Law Review in 1986 and 1987 and published an article on tender offers.  She received her Bachelors in Business Administration from the University of San Diego in 1982, Magna cum laude, Beta gamma sigma.  Ms. Hunter is a member of the California and American Bar Associations and the National Healthcare Lawyers Association.

Legal Expertise	Healthcare Expertise	Current Boards	Prior Boards
General Corporate	Medical Device	St. Norbert Finance Council	Balboa Capital
Securities	Pharmaceuticals	Family Solutions	CORE 21
Initial Public Offerings	Healthcare Delivery	America Works For Kids	Martin Luther King
Private Financings	Healthcare Technology	Bridgegate 20	Hospital Foundation
Technology Licensing	Physician Practice		Triflo Medical, Inc.
Mergers & Acquisitions	Clinical Laboratories
Corporate Governance	Diagnostics

She speaks regularly on topics of interest to the growth company community including financing alternatives, creating investment presentations, drafting effective business plans, technology licensing, protecting intellectual property, Sarbanes Oxley and corporate governance issues, fundamentals of business operations, negotiating techniques, trends in venture capital and other financings.  She also regularly mentors c-level executives and assists them in developing business plans, refining business strategies and presentations to investors.

Ms. Hunter resides in Orange County, California and has been married for 8 years to Jim, a native of Southern California.  She enjoys community service and has worked with Victims of Violent Crimes and has been a group facilitator for siblings of children with chronic and/or terminal illnesses at Children’s Hospital at Stanford.