Sharon Docherty Danco

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Practice Area

Corporate Finance

Practice Profile

Sharon has practiced corporate and securities law since 1988. She has experience with both public and private companies, and her practice emphasizes mergers and acquisitions, commercial transactions, general SEC reporting and compliance, executive benefit and compensation arrangements, internal corporate governance matters, and solid waste management contracts and procurements. Sharon served as lead counsel for the City of Tampa in connection with the $90 million retrofit of the City's waste-to-energy facility and the procurement of an operator for that facility under a long-term contract valued at approximately $200 million. In addition, she has assisted the City with respect to its evaluation processing of a long-term ash disposal and recycling facility for its WTE ash, and has provided significant research with respect to Florida's public records laws and with Constitutional flow control issues.

Education

  • University of Virginia, J.D. (Virginia Tax Review), 1988
  • University of Alabama, B.S. summa cum laude (Chi Omega, Beta Gamma Sigma; Finance and Investment Analysis), 1985

Professional Recognition

  • AV Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory
  • Chambers USA, Corporate/M&A & Private Equity
  • Gulf Coast Business Review, 40 Under 40, 2002
  • Tampa Bay Magazine's Tampa Bay's Top Lawyers
  • U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers® Best Law Firms, Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law and Securities/Capital Markets Law

Selected Professional and Civic Activities

  • Association of Corporate Growth
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Tampa Bay (Past Executive Board Member)
  • The Children's Home, Inc. (Board of Directors)
  • The Florida Bar - Business Law Section
  • Hillsborough Association for Women Lawyers
  • Leadership Tampa, Class of 2005
  • Leadership Tampa Alumni
  • Morning Star School (Past Advisory Board Member)
  • Tampa Connection, Class of 1994

Publications

  • Sharon Docherty Danco & Michael V. Mitrione, Dissenters' Rights, in Florida Corporate Practice 11-1 (3rd ed., The Florida Bar 1999).
  • Sharon Docherty Danco & James A. Porter, Corporate Dissolution, in Florida Corporate Practice 12-1 (3rd ed. The Florida Bar 1999).