Parsons Behle & Latimer

Jamie Tract is a corporate transactional attorney who focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, complex contract drafting and negotiation, start-ups and business formation, and corporate governance. She practices primarily on the Corporate, and Environmental & Natural Resources practices at Parsons Behle & Latimer.

Capabilities

Biography

Jamie K. Tract is a shareholder at Parsons Behle & Latimer, one of the largest and oldest law firms int he Intermountain Region, offering a full range of legal services with more than 215 attorneys. As a member of the firm's Corporate, and Environmental & Natural Resources practice groups, Jamie focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, complex contract drafting and negotiation, start-ups, business formation, and corporate governance.

She represents both national and international clients on a broad range of transactions in various sectors, including as a counsel to mining and refining companies with respect to acquisition and leasing of properties and precious metals, corporate governance, operations, transitions, procurement, regulatory matters, mining, mineral rights, safekeeping, and refining. Her experience includes negotiating and drafting purchase and sale agreements, engaging in due diligence and diligence opinions, ensuring regulatory compliance, and overseeing entity formation and governance.

Jamie received her Jurdis Doctor from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and holds licenses to practice law in Nevada, California, Montana and Colorado.

Experience

Corporate Counsel to Companies within the Mining Industry

Act as counsel to mining and refining companies with respect to corporate governance, due diligence, title reports, acquisition of properties and precious metals, operations, transactions, procurement, regulatory matters, mining, mineral rights, safekeeping, and refining.

Nevada Counsel in De-SPAC Transaction

Advised on Nevada related aspects of corporate governance and merger in De-SPAC transaction between private company and publicly traded company. Currently providing ongoing transactional and corporate governance support to the surviving company.

Corporate Counsel to Start-Ups

Advisor to a variety of start-up business as a member of Parsons Lift.

Accomplishments

Academic

University of Southern California Gould School of Law, 2013

Juris Doctor

Southern California Law Review, Board Member & Editor

Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity

University of Oregon, 2010

B.S. in Psychology, Minor in Business

Summa Cum Laude

Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society

Insights

Doing Business in Nevada

Remining, Reprocessing, and the Demand for Critical Minerals in the United States – CERCLA Liability and Strategies for Managing Legacy Site Risks

Hazardous Waste, Brownfields, and Legacy Issues

Corporate Entity Selection and Joint Ventures

Articles

Doing Business in Nevada

Remining, Reprocessing, and the Demand for Critical Minerals in the United States – CERCLA Liability and Strategies for Managing Legacy Site Risks

The Corporate Transparency Act: How will it affect you?

Overview of U.S. Land & Mineral Ownership and Mining Laws

New Entity Registration Requirements Under the Corporate Transparency Act

Update to Minerals Taxation in Nevada and Reclamation Trust Agreements

Presentations

Hazardous Waste, Brownfields, and Legacy Issues

Corporate Entity Selection and Joint Ventures

Mineral Exploration

Financing the Project & Ancillary Concepts

U.S. Mining Law 2023 Short Course

Acquisition of Mineral Tenures and Due Diligence Concerns

Corporate Governance Hot Topics: Corporate Transparency Act, Entity Selection, and the Inflation Reduction Act

Credentials

Licensed

Nevada

California

Montana

Colorado (Inactive Status)

U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit

U.S. Dist. Court, Central Dist. of California

Education

University of Southern California, Gould School of Law