ELIZABETH H. KRAUS
As a business attorney, Liz serves clients with day-to-day business and legal needs. She is an advocate for women-owned businesses – having served as CEO of her own business before becoming a lawyer.
Contact
(503) 802-5548
Practice Areas
Business Practices and Formation
Emerging Business and Technology
Fundraising and Securities
Corporate Growth and Governance
Intellectual Property
Mergers and Acquisitions
Liz helps her clients with the foundational aspects of starting and expanding a business, including entity formation, corporate governance, drafting and negotiating contracts, and providing general business advice.
Liz inherited the entrepreneurial bug passed down through generations of her family. Prior to pursuing a legal career, Liz helped start, develop, and obtain funding (including SBIR grants) for several biotech and drug development companies. As CEO of a pharmaceutical tool company, Liz gained first-hand experience navigating the challenges associated with managing and growing a start-up business. Liz uses this experience to evaluate legal matters from a broader perspective; incorporating logical and cost-effective legal solutions that advance the goals of early-stage and emerging growth companies.
In her spare time, Liz can be found running, skiing, mountain biking, or sitting at a coffee shop with her husband Joe.
- Volunteer of the Year Award – Oregon State Bar New Lawyers Division (2012)
- Member, Oregon State Bar
- Committee Member, Oregon State Bar New Lawyers Division
- Member, Oregon Women Lawyers
- Member, The Link
- Oregon State Courts
- Washington State Courts
- University of Oregon School of Law – J.D., 2011
- Loyola University Chicago – B.S. (Honors) Anthropology, cum laude, 2004