Axiom Advice & Counsel, a law firm based in Arizona, named Zoila “Zoe” Mena Harpin, Andrea Liburdi and Rachel Tenin partners.
The new partners will advise clients ranging from growing businesses represented solely by Axiom Advice & Counsel as well as multinationals with large in-house teams. Mena Harpin and Liburdi will lead the firm’s general corporate and outside GC offerings, while Tenin will be developing the firm’s corporate finance and broad transactional practice.
“At AA&C, we provide our clients with more value for every dollar spent on outside counsel,” Matthew Levine, managing partner of Axiom Advice & Counsel, said. “Experienced lawyers who understand our clients’ business and can provide uniquely practical legal advice are at the heart of our law firm. Zoe, Andrea and Rachel are exactly the kind of partners that will make AA&C effective. Their legal expertise is matched only by their deep understanding of their client’s industry and commercial goals.”
Mena Harpin is the former director of legal for GoDaddy’s U.S. independents business unit, where she supported strategic initiatives and all commercial legal matters for the senior executive team. While at GoDaddy, she also served as assistant general counsel for the marketing organization, providing broad commercial and marketing legal guidance and risk mitigation solutions to the company’s global marketing teams. Mena Harpin began her time with the company by providing regulatory compliance guidance for GoDaddy’s global platform expansion into new markets.
Prior to her tenure with GoDaddy, Mena Harpin worked in the law and contracts and integrated supply chain departments at Honeywell’s aerospace division, where she supported several business and product teams. Mena Harpin has more than 11 years of experience navigating complex legal issues in the technology and manufacturing industries.
Liburdi is the former general counsel of BASIS Independent Schools and BASIS Educational Ventures, and the former associate general counsel of Spring Education Group. She has more than 12 years of experience in corporate law, having advised clients on a range of complex commercial legal matters.
Prior to joining Axiom Advice & Counsel, she spent nearly 10 years leading in-house legal departments. Her experience includes advising companies on corporate governance, entity management and M&A activities. Liburdi has had operational responsibility for a variety of legal matters, including overseeing contracts, licensing and compliance, litigation, intellectual property portfolios, real estate, and employment matters, as well as working with business partners across an enterprise.
Tenin joined Axiom Advice & Counsel from the law firm Polsinelli, where she was a senior associate in the capital markets and commercial lending practice group. Tenin has experience advising enterprises on commercial, finance and other complex corporate matters, including asset-based lending, real estate financing, acquisition financing and restructurings.
Prior to her time at Polsinelli, Tenin was an associate at Chapman and Cutler for five years, where she advised and represented lenders and borrowers in connection with structuring, negotiating and documenting secured and unsecured credit facilities involving equity and asset acquisitions, asset-based lending, bridge financing and other capital lines of credit.
“AA&C approaches the practice of law with unmatched modernity, embracing a client-centric and innovative mindset,” Catherine Kemnitz, chief strategy and development officer and designated principal for Axiom Advice & Counsel, said. “Zoe, Andrea and Rachel bring a unique set of skills to provide our expanding portfolio of clients with high-quality and cost-efficient counsel. We are delighted to welcome them to our growing team and to continue to demonstrate the caliber of partners AA&C attracts.”
