Sheila Seck, Managing Partner
Sheila focuses her practice on assisting entrepreneurs as they launch their business and encounter change as they grow. She works closely with growing companies, established businesses, and investors to develop solutions to the broad range of challenges they encounter in running their businesses. She works with clients on managing founder relationships and ownership issues, corporate governance for new and established companies, protecting intellectual property, financing issues, including state and federal securities laws, and preparing business owners to sell their companies. Sheila works with many companies as they prepare to sell their business or acquire new ones by advising them through the buy and sell process, including the often complex allocation of risk in mergers and acquisitions.
Sheila combines her legal experience with a practical understanding of the needs of her clients. She has developed a culture at Seck & Associates where attorneys develop an in-depth understanding of the firm’s clients so that practical solutions can be applied to meet client’s goals and objectives. The firm doesn’t believe in a “one size fits all” approach to providing legal or consulting services. Sheila also connects clients with many resources in the business community, including investment bankers, capital resources, bankers, and HR resources.
Education
Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri, Juris Doctorate
Rockhurst University, Kansas City, Missouri, Masters of Business Administration
Missouri School of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri, Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Experience
Seck & Associates LLC, Managing Partner
Warden Triplett Grier LLP, Partner,
Honeywell International Inc., Assistant General Counsel & member of Honeywell Aerospace Mergers & Acquisition Team
Bryan Cave LLP, Attorney, Kansas City, Missouri
United States Courts, Law Clerk for The Honorable D. Brook Bartlett, Chief Judge, Western District of Missouri
Honeywell International Inc., Senior Engineer
Professional Affiliations
Alphapointe, board member 2013-present, Chairperson (2020-2022), executive committee, audit committee, board development
Rightfully Sewn board member, 2021-present
InnovateHer board member 2020-present
Stems fundrasing committee and area chair, 2010, 2011
Association of Women Lawyers Mentoring of Young Lawyers Program, 2009 – 2013
Kansas City Go Red Campaign Executive Leadership Team, 2010
Hope House Inc., board member for not-for-profit, Secretary, Finance Committee and Executive Committee, 2000 – 2005
United Way of Johnson County, Kansas, board member, 2003 – 2004
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, Champions of Character Leadership Committee, 2002
Chamber of Commerce, Olathe, Kansas, member Economic Development Council, 2002 – 2004
Honors
Missouri Lawyer’s Weekly, Women’s Justice Award, 2014
Honored as a Women Who Mean Business by the Kansas City Business Journal, 2010
Chosen by her peers as Best of the Bar, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017
2017-2022 Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers
Bar Admissions
Kansas
Missouri