Overview
Cara Weingartner handles a variety of corporate matters, helping clients navigate mergers & acquisitions, the complexities of corporate governance, commercial contract negotiations and venture capital investments. She also guides clients through asset and equity sale transactions, corporate restructurings and financing transactions.
Cara assists businesses in a variety of industries through business formations, reorganizing and recapitalizing entities, and drafting and reviewing commercial contracts.
At Notre Dame Law School, Cara researched corporate compliance topics as a research assistant and legal extern for Notre Dame Athletics. Cara also developed legal experience as a summer associate at an Indianapolis law firm and a legal intern with FedEx Ground.
Services & Industries
Credentials
Bar Admissions
Indiana
Education
Notre Dame Law School
J.D. magna cum laude, Notre Dame Law Review (managing senior editor) (2018)
Indiana University Kelley School of Business
B.S.B. in Finance and Operations Management, with highest distinction and honors in Business (2015)
Experience
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June 2019 1 min readPublic Offering of $37.0 Million Principal Amount of 6.0% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Subordinated Notes due 2029Banking & Finance Financial Services Corporate Public Companies & Governance
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April 2019 1 min readGlobal Tire Manufacturer Acquires Fleet Solutions BusinessCorporate Mergers & Acquisitions
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December 2018 1 min readEndocyte Acquired by Novartis in $2.1B AgreementPharmaceuticals & Biologics Health & Life Sciences Corporate Antitrust Mergers & Acquisitions
Leadership & Community
Pro Bono
- Volunteer Lawyer Network — Intake Volunteer, 2015-18
- District 10 Pro Bono Project — Volunteer Undergraduate Legal Intern, 2015
Civic Activities
- Junior Achievement, 2015
Honors
- Faegre Baker Daniels — Pro Bono Honor Roll, 2019
- Notre Dame Law School — Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Program of Study in Business Law; Dean’s Circle Fellow; Dean’s Honor Roll; Transactional LawMeets 2017, National Championship Qualifier