April represents clients in connection with a broad range of business matters, including mergers and acquisitions, financing, corporate governance and business entity formation. She has been involved in a variety of transactions with domestic and foreign, public and privately held clients in the manufacturing, technology, insurance, healthcare and restaurant/hospitality industries. She also regularly counsels clients on antitrust issues and has prepared numerous Hart-Scott-Rodino pre-merger notification forms in conjunction with certain acquisitions.
April has also served as corporate counsel for a sports event management and marketing company. As corporate counsel, April drafted, reviewed and negotiated various venue, sponsor and vendor contracts related to major sporting events in Alabama. She was also responsible for managing the relationship with the Alabama High School Athletic Association, which involved developing a media rights plan and negotiating broadcast agreements, as well as managing their corporate sponsorship program.
April received her B.A., magna cum laude, in 1995 and her J.D., summa cum laude, in 2004, both from the University of Alabama. She also received her M.B.A. from the University of Alabama in 2004. During law school, April served as Junior and Senior Editor for the Alabama Law Review. She was named a Hugo L. Black Scholar and a Dean M. Leigh Harrison Scholar. April is also a member of the Order of the Coif. In 2012, April was awarded by Cox Media Group as an "Outstanding Female Attorney" at the 7th Annual Best in Minority Business Awards and named an Alabama Super Lawyers "Rising Star" in the Business/Corporate practice area.
April in the community
April is an active member of the Rotaract Club of Birmingham and has previously served as Chairman, President, and Programs Director of this club. Rotaract is an affiliate of Rotary International and is sponsored locally by the Rotary Club of Birmingham. This group recently spearheaded the "Ready 2 Read" Second Grade Reading Initiative. As part of this initiative, Rotaract placed libraries in every second grade classroom in the City of Birmingham to help promote literacy. Ready 2 Read recently was awarded the International Service Project of the Year Award from Rotary International.
In addition to Rotaract, April is an active member of the Birmingham Venture Club, an organization designed to encourage entrepreneurial development and investment in Birmingham. She also presently serves on the Executive Committee of the Jefferson County Chapter of the University of Alabama National Alumni Association and the Executive Committee of the Business Section of the Birmingham Bar Association. April is active with the United Way and served on a Visiting Allocations Team for the United Way of Central Alabama and served as a loaned executive for the Trident United Way. April was a member of the Birmingham MS Leadership Class of 2008 and the 2009 Alabama Leadership Initiative. She has also been a member since 1996 of The Blackburn Institute, a forum dedicated to identifying strategies to improve the quality of life in the State of Alabama.
Memberships & Bar Associations
Alabama State Bar