Laura Terry Howard

Laura Howard is a trusted adviser to corporate clients, including architects and engineers, working closely with them to identify and resolve legal issues involving employment, contract, and ownership transition issues. She assists clients through the corporate life cycle, addressing formation issues in the startup phase on through to developing and implementing an exit strategy. Ms. Howard possesses extensive experience in general corporate counseling, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and ownership transition, providing results-oriented and practical solutions to her clients’ legal challenges. During her career, she has handled transactions ranging in size from $1 million to more than $300 million in enterprise value.

Prior to joining Fox Rothschild, Ms. Howard was a founding partner at San Francisco-based MBV Law LLP, as well as Howard & Howard, a firm focused on business counseling and employment law. She earned a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and a BA from Emory University, magna cum laude, where she majored in Russian studies. While in law school, Ms. Howard was a member of the California Law Review.

Ms. Howard is managing partner of Fox Rothschild LLP’s San Francisco office and serves as co-chair of the firm's Architecture, Engineering & Design Professional Firms Practice, as well as the Business Succession Planning Practice. She is a frequent speaker on the topics of ownership transition and mergers and acquisitions, especially relating to construction, engineering, and design firms.