She graduated fromHarvardLaw School in 1988 and was hired by the blue chiplawfirm Sidley &Austinin Chicago, where she specialized in marketing andintellectual property law.
The company bought businesses such as Hugo Boss, originally a German menswear firm, and signed deals with blue-chip Italian designers such as Gianfranco Ferre.
In the six years since its founding his Manhattan firm has built out a client list full of blue-chip accounts like Kraft, Prudential, Microsoft, Unilever and Puma.