J. Chandler Roide

Prior to law school, Chandler Saul worked in the deregulated energy market as a commercial energy broker and negotiated energy contracts and power purchases for commercial energy users across deregulated markets in North America. Through this experience, she developed strong negotiation skills and the ability to strategically advance her client’s short-term and long-term objectives and priorities. These are skill-sets she utilizes daily in her legal practice.

Chandler represents clients in a variety of corporate and transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructures, private equity and venture capital investments and strategically evaluating how to protect client’s intellectual property. She also particularly enjoys partnering with entrepreneurs to develop and launch new business ventures. Chandler takes a holistic approach to providing sound advice to her clients by strategically evaluating the unique mix of dynamics at play in each particular circumstance and crafting innovative and dynamic solutions and approaches to benefit and advance her clients’ goals and objectives.

She believes a key to successfully representing her clients is truly understanding their businesses so she can best personalize her representation to their unique business models and dynamics. This allowed her to gain a depth of knowledge and experience in a variety of industries, such as healthcare, finance, technology and web development, food and beverage industry, cyber security, the oil and gas and alternative energy sector, commercial leasing, and land use and development to name a few. She also has a strong regulatory and compliance practice in a number of highly regulated industries.