Candace Groth Senior Attorney

Candace Groth graduated summa cum laude from Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota. After law school, Candace served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Christine A. Nowak on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

Candace is active in both the Texas and Dallas legal communities. She is the VP of Membership for the Dallas Women Lawyers Association (DWLA) Board of Directors. Candace is on the Board of Trustees of the Association of Young Lawyers (DAYL) Foundation as well as chair of the Grants Committee. Additionally, she is a Co-Chair of the DWLA/DAYL Women’s Mentoring Circle Committee. Candace was named the DAYL One to Watch for May 2022.

Candace is also a past participant in the 2023 DBA WE LEAD Program and serves on the Women in the Profession Committee of the State Bar of Texas. Additionally, she is a past-Chair of the Civil Liberties & Civil Rights Section of the State Bar of Texas. Candace is a frequent speaker and author on corporate and mergers and acquisitions issues.

Candace was born and raised in the Midwest, but has settled happily in Dallas, Texas. She enjoys running, knitting, and spending time with her two Shih Tzus, Arthur and Louis.

Select Representations

*Some transactions reflect Candace’s work at prior firms.

• Represented Harvia Plc in its acquisition of ThermaSol Steam Bath LLC, a leading Texas manufacturer of high-end steam showers and steam rooms.
• Represented a Texas mobile application startup in connection with its acquisition by a strategic buyer
• Represented a national NetSuite and managed services business in connection with its acquisition by a strategic buyer
• Represented an investor in connection with a split-off and reorganization transaction
• Represented an artificial intelligence startup with Latin American and United States operations in connection with the acquisition by a public company
• Represented a healthcare services business in connection with the sale of the business to a Canadian company, including cross-border tax considerations
• Represented a managed IT provider seller in connection with an acquisition by a private equity-backed competitor. The deal included an f-reorganization and extended escrow requirements, including a PPP Loan escrow.*
• Represented a Minnesota buyer in connection with the purchase of a lakeside resort, including management of extensive real estate holdings and planned communities (HOAs). The deal included a novel combination of seller, conventional, and MHFA financing.*
• Represented a Minnesota seller in connection with the sale of a restaurant, including optimization of seller tax treatment for the transaction*
• Represented two national managed service companies in connection with a strategic merger in multiple phases*
• Represented twelve Minnesota real estate companies in connection with a complex restructuring of the existing entities, allowing the companies to generate substantial returns for their investors*
• Represented an investor in connection with the termination of a rollover business startup (ROBS) structure*
• Represented a Minnesota real estate company in connection with a MNVest offering*

Awards and Community Involvement

• VP of Membership, Dallas Women Lawyers Association (DWLA) Board of Directors
• DWLA Liaison, Dallas Association of Young Lawyers (DAYL) Board of Directors (2024)
• DAYL Liaison, Dallas Women Lawyers Association (DWLA) Board of Directors (2024)
• 2023-2024 Super Lawyer Rising Stars
• DAYL Foundation
  • Trustee, Board of Trustees (February 2023-Present)
  • Chair, Grants Committee (February 2023-Present)
  • Member, Grants Committee (2019-Present)
  • Member, Scholarship Committee (2019-Present)
• Member, Women in the Profession Committee, State Bar of Texas (June 2023 to Present)
• 2023 Dallas Bar Association WE LEAD Program
• DAYL One to Watch for May 2022
• Texas Bar Foundation Fellow (2021 to Present)
• DAYL Foundation Life Fellow (2018 to Present)

Presentations

• “Things I Wish I Knew: M&A Edition,” Dallas Association of Young Lawyers CLE Committee (November 12, 2024)
• “Understanding Representation and Warranty Insurance in M&A Transactions,” Dallas Women Lawyers Association (October 15, 2024)
• “Understanding Representation and Warranty Insurance in M&A Transactions,” State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting (June 20, 2024)
• “Demystifying Career Transitions, Women in the Profession Committee,” State Bar of Texas (Moderator, April 25, 2024)
• “Mergers & Acquisitions University,” Vela Wood Staley Young P.C. (September 21-22, 2023)
• “Underestimate the Indemnification Section at Your Peril,” Dallas Bar Association, Mergers and Acquisitions Section (December 13, 2022)
• “Climbing the Ladder: Developing and Marketing Your Greatest Asset, Yourself“, DWLA/DAYL Women’s Mentoring Circles (Moderator, August 16, 2022).
• “The Indemnification Section: Misjudged and Misunderstood,” Vela Wood Staley Young P.C.(April 20, 2022)
• “What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You: Privacy and Cybersecurity for Your Law Firm,” Privacy in 2021, State Bar of Texas Civil Liberties & Civil Rights Section (September 17, 2021)
• “You’re Fired: The First Amendment and Social Media,” State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting (June 18, 2021)
• “You’re Fired: The First Amendment and Social Media,” 15th Annual Bill of Rights Course, TexasBarCLE (May 14, 2021)
• “Data Privacy Rights: Searches at the Border and Beyond,” State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting (June 14, 2019)
• “Searching for Data Privacy,” 13th Annual Bill of Rights Course, TexasBarCLE (May 17, 2019)
• “Ethics in Practice: Exploring Ethics from Different Practice Perspectives,” Hamline University School of Law (November 18, 2015)
• “Attractiveness and Certainty: The Minnesota LLC Act Makeover,” Hamline University School of Law (October 13, 2015)

Publications

• “Equity Grants for Service Providers in LLCs Doesn’t have to be Complicated,” Dallas Association of Young Lawyers (May 2024)
• “A Look at Texas Business Courts’ Potential M&A Impact,” Law360 (May 25, 2023)
• “Texas Business Organizations Manual,” Texas Bar Books, Contributing Author (2020)
• “Crossing the Border, Tips for Attorneys,” Bench & Bar of Minnesota (August 2019)
• “The Future of Collective Employment Arbitration Part II: Apocalyptic Warnings, Lochnerizing, and the Right to Contract,” 24 Tex. J. on C.L. & C.R. (2018)
• “Protecting the Profession through the Pen: A Proposal for Liberalizing ABA Model Rule of Professional Conduct 5.4 to Allow Multidisciplinary Firms,” 37 Hamline L. Rev. 565 (2014)
• “Revolution is No Longer a One State Affair,” 1 Macalester Rev. (2011)