Yvonne Moss
Yvonne Moss is an experienced business lawyer representing nonprofit, tax-exempt, and socially responsible companies and well as traditional for profit ventures with respect to their business law needs. Yvonne is known for her thorough and detail oriented approach as well as her kind heart and impeccable follow-through.
Yvonne counsels clients regarding business entity formation, structuring, mergers and other business combinations, financing and corporate governance.Yvonne understands the nuances of the evolving social enterprise movement including emerging hybrid legal structures such as the B-corp., benefit corporation and low profit limited liability company. She represents social enterprises in entity selection, formation, and operational issues.
Yvonne also advises clients in connection with government contracting and regulatory compliance. She has represented exempt and non-exempt as well as publicly and privately held businesses, both domestically and abroad. Her experience extends across a wide range of industries, including hospitals, bioscience, federally qualified health centers, medical products and services, trade associations, museums, educational organizations, and manufacturing.
Yvonne also advises clients with respect to the unique contracting needs of exempt organizations and socially responsible companies including:
- license agreements
- employment agreements
- fundraising agreements
- financing agreements
- service agreements
- distribution agreements
- federal and private grant agreements
- nondisclosure agreements
- chapter agreements
- commercial co-venture agreements and
- joint ventures
Prior to joining Carter Law Group, Yvonne practiced with Quarles & Brady, LLP for nearly eight years.
Education
- J.D., Howard University School of Law, 2003
- B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1998
Membership
- Member, State Bar of Arizona
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, National Bar Association
Community Activities
- Director, Awakening Seed School
- Director, Trillium Integrated Healthcare
- Former Director, Valley of the Sun YMCA, South Mountain Branch
- Volunteer Lawyers Program, Volunteer Lawyer
- Young Lawyers Division Wills for Heroes Program, State Bar of Arizona, Member
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