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Koley Jessen P.C., L.L.O.
One Pacific Place
1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800
Omaha, NE  68124

Phone: 402-390-9500
Fax: 402-390-9005
teresa.beaufait@koleyjessen.com

Teresa Beaufait has more than 25 years of experience in business, securities, and transactions. She joined Koley Jessen in January 2008. Prior to joining the Firm, Teresa served for over six years as senior vice president and general counsel for SITEL Corporation, a NYSE-listed company with over $1 billion in revenues, where she directed the company’s legal strategy and managed external counsel and the internal legal department. Teresa led SITEL’s legal team on matters ranging from large outsourcing contracts with multinational corporations to international joint ventures and acquisitions/dispositions, and concluding with the sale of SITEL Corporation in a going private merger transaction. Teresa has been selected by her peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America (© Woodward/White Inc.) for her work in Mergers and Acquisitions Law.

Representative Experience
Teresa’s most recent experience in successfully completed transactions for clients includes:

• Represented developer in joint venture and financing for $160 million shopping center development
• Represented company in $10 million recapitalization
• Represented funding partner in strategic alliance involving patented technology
• Represented purchaser of cattle breeding business
• Represented seller in $10 million sale of software company
• Represented borrower in $190 million revolving credit facility

Practice Groups
M&A/Securities
Business/General Counsel

Education
J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 1981
Certified Public Accountant Certificate, Nebraska and Kansas (inactive)
B.S., Creighton University, 1978 (summa cum laude)
     Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Major in Accounting

Bar Admission
Nebraska
U.S. District Court, District of Nebraska
U.S. Tax Court

Professional and Community Involvement
Nebraska State Bar Association
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Nebraska Society of Certified Public Accountants
Association of Corporate Counsel (2000-2007)