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Linda Powers
Linda Powers has more than fifteen years of experience in the fields of corporate mergers and acquisitions (both hostile and friendly), restructurings, and highly leveraged, structured and specialty finance transactions. She is a co-founder and Managing Director of Toucan Capital Corporation.
Before co-founding Toucan Capital, Ms. Powers was Senior Vice President, Global Finance, at Enron Corporation. Before joining Enron, Ms. Powers served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce in the Bush, Sr. Administration. In that capacity, she was responsible for a number of small business programs, mainly concerned with access to capital. She also assisted financial services, information services and related businesses in entering foreign markets, and was responsible for government-to-government negotiations to remove foreign market entry restrictions for U.S. firms. She was co-lead negotiator for the U.S. on the North American Free Trade Agreement, financial sector agreement, which opened banking, securities, insurance, pension fund and related opportunities in Canada and Mexico.
During the 1980s, Ms. Powers practiced law, specializing in corporate mergers, acquisitions and financings, and certain kinds of intellectual property transactions. While working for the headquarters of the European Union in Brussels, she was responsible for drafting the initial intellectual property rules that now govern know-how licensing in the European Union.
Ms. Powers has also taught International Business Transactions and European Business Law at Georgetown Law School for eight years, as an adjunct professor. She is a graduate, magna cum laude, of both Princeton University and Harvard Law School.
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