Overview
Nealy Evans has more than twenty years of legal experience and currently focuses her practice on the beverage and hospitality industry. She assists clients with local, state, and federal alcohol beverage licensing, as well as post-licensing regulatory compliance. In addition to her extensive experience assisting local hospitality businesses, breweries, wineries, and distilleries, Nealy is knowledgeable in retail and manufacturer alcohol beverage licensing procedures nationwide, and works with wineries, cruise lines, golf courses, restaurants, and hotels to procure and maintain multistate license portfolios.
Nealy works closely with city, county and state alcohol beverage agency personnel, community board members of areas potentially impacted by liquor licenses, and with Stoel Rives and other counsel nationwide to achieve efficient results for her clients. Nealy has also worked directly with supervisory agency personnel to implement procedural changes to improve cost and time-effective streamlined licensing for particular clients.
Education
Edmonds Community College, A.A., Paralegal Studies, 2003
North Seattle Community College, A.A., English, 2002
Experience
- Assists with maintenance of multistate alcohol beverage licensing portfolio for national golf course management company, including jurisdictional compliance reporting.
- Manages multistate alcohol beverage licensing portfolio for international cruise lines, including jurisdictional compliance reporting.
- Assists national grocery store and restaurant chains with corporate compliance reporting to alcohol beverage regulatory and business licensing agencies.
- Assistance with procurement of multistate alcohol beverage and business licenses for national restaurant and entertainment center.
- Procured and manages multistate wine license portfolio, including brand registrations, for premium food and wine gift producer and retailer to be able to ship wine directly to its consumers.
- Assistance with procurement of multistate alcohol supplier licenses for Washington vodka and gin manufacturer.
- Assistance with procurement of state and federal alcohol beverage licenses for Washington brewstillery and restaurant.
- Assistance with multistate alcohol license compliance reporting on behalf of international retailers regarding multibillion-dollar acquisitions of national hotel and grocery chains.