Crystal N. Armstrong

Crystal also advises public charities and other tax-exempt organizations on formation, applications for tax-exempt status, governance, and ongoing tax and regulatory compliance. For businesses, she provides transactional counsel on entity formation, M&A, corporate governance, and the negotiation and drafting of transactional agreements and corporate documents.

In addition, Crystal helps clients protect and strengthen their brands through trademark prosecution and portfolio management. Her experience includes conducting trademark clearance searches, preparing and filing trademark applications, and drafting responses to Office Actions. By identifying potential issues early and guiding clients through the registration process, she helps businesses pursue and protect valuable intellectual property rights.

Before joining Spencer Fane, Crystal assisted with due diligence in health care mergers and acquisitions and advised pharmacies, hospitals and health systems, and health care industry investors on a variety of regulatory and compliance matters. She continues to draw on her health care experience to counsel hospital systems, health care providers, and other industry participants on regulatory, compliance, and transactional matters.

Crystal also spent five years as a school psychologist, a background which helps her better interpret complex relational dynamics and prioritize strong client communication.

While earning her Juris Doctor at The University of Alabama School of Law, Crystal served as the vice president of the Black Law Student Association, president of the Health Law Society, a Law School Ambassador, a member of the Bench and Bar Legal Honor Society, and the acquisitions & development editor for the Law & Psychology Review. She was also a student attorney in the Nonprofit and Entrepreneurship Clinic, where she gained early exposure to working with nonprofits.