Christine A. Farmer is an experienced attorney with proven business acumen, having served in a variety of big law and in-house counsel roles focused on complex commercial contracts, business formation, corporate governance matters, and general corporate law issues.
Christine began her legal career at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where she focused on capital markets transactions and corporate restructuring proceedings. Christine then went in-house at Avant, Inc. (at the time a growth-stage startup and a Chicago "unicorn"), where she focused on complex commercial transactions, including asset-backed securitizations, private fund formation, and debt financing, and The Kraft Heinz Company, where she focused on commercial contracts. Christine has also held business roles, serving as a Strategic Project Manager for Compass Group USA and as Director of Analytics, Business Insights at Compass Group USA's data and analytics consultancy (E15 Group).
Christine received her law degree from Duke University School of Law in 2011, where she was a member of the Duke Law Journal and a Stuart F. Feiner Scholar. She graduated at the top of her class, magna cum laude and Order of the Coif, and was awarded Duke Law's Class of 2011 Commercial Transactions and Bankruptcy Law Legal Specialty Award. During her free time Christine participated on the Duke Law softball team, attending the University of Virginia law school softball tournament each year, as well as leading the Duke Law intramural soccer team to the graduate league championship.
Christine earned her undergraduate degree in Biology, with Honors, from the University of Chicago in December 2007, where she was a University Scholar. Christine was captain and team MVP of the women’s varsity soccer team, which made three trips to the NCAA Tournament, including one trip to the Final Four, and was an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Finalist.
Education:
Duke University School of Law, Order of the Coif and magna cum laude, J.D., 2011
University of Chicago, A.B. in Biology, with Honors, 2007
Bar Admissions:
Illinois (2011)
