Peggy Steif Abram advises clients on business matters including corporate governance, SEC reporting, contracts, financing, compliance and risk management. She is a trusted business adviser whose experience enables her to understand how a legal matter relates to the business goals of her client, to anticipate potential problems and to strategize and implement workable, creative solutions. She focuses on how daily decisions advance her clients' business objectives, and has particular expertise in crafting policies and procedures to mitigate risk across the full spectrum of business processes.

In addition to being an experienced corporate legal counsel, Peggy is a skilled legal services manager. For the past several years, she has provided general counsel services and is corporate secretary to Hutchinson Technology Incorporated, a Nasdaq-listed company, leading the legal team responsible for ongoing compliance, reporting and governance obligations and major corporate transactions, as well as coordinating legal services in areas such as employment law, intellectual property, international business, real estate and litigation.

Peggy is regularly involved in a broad variety of corporate matters, including:

• Ongoing reporting and compliance matters, including disclosure practices, preparation of proxy materials and periodic reports, and addressing obligations relating to Section 16 and Rule 144 compliance
• Corporate governance, including board and shareholder relations issues
• Private debt placements and other financing arrangements, including equipment leasing and sale-leaseback transactions
• Contract negotiations and ongoing business review and documentation
• Public equity and debt offerings
• Risk management and records management programs and compliance
• Employee compensation plans and arrangements

Peggy is a partner in the firm and has practiced in Faegre & Benson's Minneapolis office since 1986. She is currently a member of the firm's diversity committee. She also currently shares responsibility for administering the Faegre & Benson Foundation, which supports the firm's communities by providing funding to social, cultural and legal nonprofit organizations.

Präsentationen

• SEC Legal, Accounting and Enforcement Issues 2007 Annual Update (Co-Chair)
  Bowne of Minnesota Seminar
• Navigating the New SEC Rules on Executive Compensation and Related Matters
  Faegre & Benson Seminar, Minneapolis and Denver (2006)
• SEC Legal, Accounting and Enforcement Issues 2006 Annual Update (Co-Chair)
  Bowne of Minnesota Seminar
• Annual Contractors' Seminar - Records Management
  Faegre & Benson Seminar (2006)
• Navigating the 2005 Annual Report and Proxy Season
  Faegre & Benson Seminar (2005)
• Document Retention & Destruction in Minnesota
  Lorman Education Services Seminar (2004); ARMA International/Faegre & Benson Seminar (2004)
• Records Management & Discovery in the Electronic Age
  Hennepin County Bar Association, Minneapolis (2004); Faegre & Benson Seminar, Minneapolis and Des Moines (2003)
• Reducing the Risks of Securities Litigation
  Faegre & Benson Seminar (2000)

Veröffentlichungen

Verbandstätigkeit

• National Association of Women Lawyers - Annual Meeting Planning Committee (2006)

Mitgliedschaften

• Stages Theatre Company, Secretary of the Board and Board Member
• Friends of Children Foundation, Counsel to the Board

Pro Bono

• JUSTice FOR KIDS - State Wards Advocacy Team
• Habitat for Humanity