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Meredith Ervine, Senior Editor: Prior to working at CCRcorp, Meredith was a partner at Honigman LLP, serving as co-chair of the Public Company, Securities and Governance practice where she counseled publicly traded and pre-IPO companies headquartered across the U.S. Meredith assisted clients on a wide range of corporate matters, including financial reporting, proxy statements and annual meeting planning, corporate governance and policies, executive and director compensation and related disclosure, ESG reporting, transactional matters and securities offerings, stockholder outreach and investor relations. Meredith began her career in 2008 in the New York office of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, where she focused on public and private debt and equity offerings, liability management activities and M&A transactions.

Meredith co-led a proxy statement project that received Corporate Secretary’s national Corporate Governance Award for Best Proxy Statement (small cap) in 2020 and another that was nominated for Best Proxy Statement (mid-cap) in 2022. Meredith was named a Best Lawyer in America (2023) in the areas of Corporate Governance Law and Securities/Capital Markets Law. She has a BA in Economics and Environmental Policy from the University of Michigan and a JD from the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University.

Meaghan Nelson, Contributing Editor: Alongside her work as Contributing Editor at CCRcorp, Meaghan is a partner in Stoel Rives' Boise office. Prior to Stoel, Meaghan was the General Counsel of SingleStore Inc., a venture-backed start-up in the database industry, and prior to that, led the corporate legal function as Associate General Counsel at Veeva Systems Inc. (NYSE:VEEV), a life sciences technology company she took public as outside counsel. Before going in-house, Meaghan was an associate at Cravath Swaine & Moore in New York and Wilson Sonsini and Gunderson Dettmer in Silicon Valley. Throughout her practice, Meaghan has advised clients on a wide range of corporate matters, including IPO preparedness, financial reporting, proxy statements and annual meeting planning, corporate governance and policies, executive and director compensation and related disclosure, equity compensation and administration, ESG reporting, transactional matters (M&A and venture capital fundraising) and securities offerings (IPOs and follow-on offerings), shareholder outreach and investor relations.

Meaghan is an adjunct professor at the University of Idaho College of Law, where she teaches a course on startup law (covering legal issues from formation to fundraising to liquidity event). She has a BS in International Affairs from Georgia Tech and a JD from the University of Illinois College of Law.

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