Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Finance Transactions

Partner - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Office Managing Partner - Kansas City

Wesley Fields concentrates his practice in the areas of public finance, corporate transactions and general business matters.  He has nearly twenty years of experience in negotiating and preparing all documentation necessary for business joint ventures, mergers, consolidations, acquisitions and stock/asset sales.  In addition, Mr. Fields has experience in general business representation and counseling, including negotiating and documenting various types of agreements (e.g., shareholder, employment and consulting, noncompetition and non-solicitation, stock option plans, and distribution, supply and licensing).

CIVIC INVOLVEMENT & HONORS Chambers US, Real Estate (2023) Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Greater Kansas City Chapter – Chair of the Board Research Medical Hospital – Chair of the Board of Trustees; member of the Board of Trustees Harvesters, Community Food Network – Board and Executive Committee Member and the Succession Task Force; past Chairman The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Mid-America Chapter – Past Board Member Ingram’s Magazine’s "40 under Forty" – Honoree, 2000 Young Lawyer of the Year – Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, 2006 Southern Christian Leadership Conference Black Achiever Award – 2002 Friends of the Zoo – Board Member and Executive Committee Member