As a lawyer for business, Ammara is deeply invested in the long-term success of her clients, channeling her experience and enthusiasm into finding creative and efficient solutions. She focuses her practice on a variety of corporate law matters, assisting businesses with legal entity formation, raising capital, both private equity, venture capital and debt/financing, and various restructuring, redemptions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate lending, qualified opportunity zone funds, cryptocurrency and blockchain, joint ventures and related matters.
Ammara also assists many of her clients from a general counsel perspective by drafting and negotiating service contracts, buy-sell agreements, distribution agreements, as well as working on incentive plans for attracting key management, among other matters.
A particular area of Ammara’s practice involves how businesses use and interact with artificial intelligence (AI). Holding a certificate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Generative AI for Digital Transformation, she has helped clients with internal policies and operations relating to generative AI, machine learning and other data-related practices. Ammara has also helped clients review and negotiate agreements with various AI companies and other software providers that use and develop various aspects of AI, including internal LLMs and other data-related projects. Beyond her client work, Ammara is also a co-chair of the Chicago Bar Association’s newly formed Financial and Emerging Technology Committee.
Ammara also maintains involvement in the clean energy industry, working with both financing parties and operating entities in the clean energy, environmental and social consciousness industries on matters related to waste heat recapture and solar energy. Ammara also works with various technology companies and entities in the decentralized finance space.
Ammara previously worked in Big Four consulting with Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she took part in the structuring, reorganizing and tax planning of large-scale M&A transactions.
