Tash S. Van Lieshout

Tash assists clients with business combinations and strategic matters involving mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions, as well as general corporate needs and governance matters. 

Tash represents clients ranging from emerging companies to established corporations and private equity firms in a variety of industries including life sciences, medical devices, software, professional services, and manufacturing.

Tash focuses on understanding the business practicalities of a transaction and the long-term needs of her clients, leveraging her time working in-house at a Fortune 200 cooperative and seconded with a leading national middle market private equity fund.

• Represented private equity-backed medical products manufacturer specializing in perioperative products in multiple add-on acquisitions.
• Represented a private equity-backed developer and manufacturer of diagnostic products and equipment in multiple add-on acquisitions.
• Represented a private equity-backed software company in the K-12 education industry in multiple add-on acquisitions.
• Represented a private equity-backed practice management and HER system provider in multiple add-on acquisitions.
• Represented a private equity fund in its acquisition of a strategic consulting firm serving fintech clients.
• Represented a private equity fund in its acquisition of a financial advisory firm.
• Represented a leading medical device contract manufacturer in its $315,000,000 sale transaction to a private equity fund.
• Represented a contract manufacturer of Class II and Class III medical devices and specialty components in its $272,000,000 sale transaction to a private equity fund.
• Represented an aerial pipeline inspection and control company in its $148,000,000 sale transaction to a private equity fund.

Education

• University of Minnesota Law School, J.D., 2019, summa cum laude
• University of Wisconsin-Madison, B.S., B.A., 2016

Admissions

• Minnesota, 2019

Clerkships

• Judicial Extern, Honorable Hildy Bowbeer, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, 2017

• Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2026

Professional Activities

• Minnesota Law Review, Senior Articles Editor, 2018-2019; Staff Member, 2017-2018

Community

• Asylum Law Project, Volunteer, 2017
• University of Wisconsin Law School Family Court Clinic, Intake Volunteer, 2014-2015