Ms. St. Germain brings over fifteen years’ experience in commercial transactions, in-house representation, and litigation practice to Mshkawzi. She harnesses her creative thinking and aggressive representation to leverage tribal sovereignty and rights to self-determination to her clients’ governmental and business issues.

She works with tribes to develop and optimize their businesses, both brick and mortar and e-commerce. She has substantial experience in traditional secured financing both for gaming and non-gaming economic development, tribal governance and infrastructure creation, federal and state grant programs and standard agreement drafting, and law and policy creation.

Learning from a true master, Ms. St. Germain works daily to strengthen her clients’ e-commerce businesses legal positions through bolstering tribes’ control and expertise and economic position by advising on tribal law and policy governing the investment and disbursement of business revenues.

Ms. St. Germain has defended tribal governments and their businesses in California, federal courts, and tribal court, litigating the validity of waivers of sovereign immunity, consumer complaints against economic arms of tribes, patron tort claims, and myriad contract rights. She has a published case she successfully briefed and defended resulting in a favorable outcome for her client. (Larimer v. Konocti Vista Casino Resort, Marina & RV Park, 814 F.Supp.2d 952 (N.D. Cal. 2011)).