Jayne E. Juvan, Esq. concentrates her practice principally on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances and general business counseling. In addition to advising venture capital and private equity funds and public and private companies on structuring, negotiating, and closing transactions, she also counsels her clients on corporate governance and compliance. She also has broad experience representing private equity and venture capital firms with their health care investments and has counseled their portfolio companies through state and federal health care regulatory investigations. She covers trends in global mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and economic growth and development at www.twitter.com/jaynejuvan.
An article published by Fast Company named Juvan a 2010 thought leader in corporate social responsibility, and Corporate Board Member Magazine, a NYSE Euronext Company, and Mediaite, a Dan Abrams publication, have both listed Juvan as a leading resource on Twitter for corporate governance commentary. In 2010, Super Lawyers listed her as a “Rising Star,” in 2009, Inside Business Magazine published a full page profile about her and dubbed her a “legal eagle,” and, in 2008, Inside Business Magazine presented Juvan with the 25 under 35 “Movers and Shakers” award. Crain's Cleveland Business, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Poetic Justice, RFID Update, Computerworld, Pharmaceutical Commerce, Chief Security Officer Magazine, CIO World News, and Healthcare IT News have quoted or featured her.
Juvan graduated from the Cleveland Leadership Center's Bridge Builders Flagship Program in 2010 and the YWCA Leadership Boot Camp Program in 2008. She teaches constitutional law through the 3Rs – Rights, Responsibilities, Realties – program and volunteers for The Gathering Place. In 2011, she launched the Attorney Corporate Challenge for the Race for the Place, an initiative designed to encourage law firm participation in The Gathering Place’s leading fundraising event. She also served on the Executive Committee for the Cleveland Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s Chef’s Fantasy Event for a two year period.
Juvan was the salutatorian of her law school class, graduating summa cum laude, and was recognized as a Presidential Scholar, Judith M. Stevenson Memorial Scholar, Noah Kern Memorial Scholar and Law Review Scholar. She served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Capital University Law Review and, during her term, she and the Executive Board founded the Annual Well's Conference on Adoption Law, dedicated the first publication to a fellow classmate who heroically gave his life in the Iraq war and, breaking from past precedent, extended admission to the top two students in each legal writing class regardless of class rank.
She is admitted to practice law in the State of New York and the State of Ohio.