Gueter Aurelien
Gueter Aurelien is an associate with Venable's Corporate Practice Group. Her practice focuses on a wide range of corporate law matters, including mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt financings, commercial loan transactions, corporate governance, real estate investment trusts (REITs), and general business law matters. Gueter has represented issuers in multiple stock and debt offerings, including initial public offerings and other financial transactions. She also represents community development entities and lenders in connection with New Markets Tax Credit financing transactions.
Gueter routinely collaborates with multidisciplinary teams (including intellectual property, real estate, tax, benefits, employment and labor) of attorneys to successfully complete transactions. She advises clients from both the company/seller and investor/buyer perspectives.
While in law school, Gueter served as a student attorney representing clients in the University of Miami School of Law Immigration Clinic and co-authored an amicus brief filed before the Florida Supreme Court. She also contributed to advocacy efforts before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Gueter was a legal intern with Microsoft Corporation’s Corporate and Regulatory Affairs Department, where she gained knowledge on global privacy, compliance, and regulatory issues.
Related Practices
Experience
Representative Matters
- Represented a private investment company in its acquisition of a gas utility and construction materials company in a stock purchase transaction.
- Maryland counsel to a pharmaceutical company in debt and equity financing transactions.
- Represented a REIT in a $65 million follow-on underwritten public offering of common stock.
- Represented a Maryland manufacturer in a sale by reverse triangular merger to a private equity firm.
- Represented a community development entity in a financing transaction of $13.5 million in federal New Markets Tax Credit and $6.4 million in Florida New Markets Tax Credit to a qualified low income community business to acquire and develop a social service facility located in Miami, Florida.
- Represented a project management and consulting firm in its acquisition of an operations management services company in a transaction involving a rollover equity investment and debt financing.
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Credentials
Education
- J.D. magna cum laude University of Miami School of Law 2013
- Member, University of Miami Psychology, Public Policy & Law Journal
- M.A. Forensic Accounting Florida Atlantic University 2010
- Phi Kappa Phi
- B.A. Columbia University 1999
Bar Admissions
- Maryland
- District of Columbia
Court Admissions
- U.S. Supreme Court
Recognition
- Selected for membership in The National Black Lawyers-Top 40 Under 40
- Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges
- Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA) Scholar
- Legal Council on Legal Diversity Microsoft 1L Scholar