Experience

• Represented a provider of audio, video, and web-based conferencing solutions in a $400 million merger.
• Represented a publicly listed Australian company in its $120 million acquisition of a U.S.-based pharmaceutical business, including a corresponding U.S. private equity offering and debt financing.
• Represented a privately owned managed care company in its $100 million sale to a publicly traded supplemental life and health insurance company.
• Represented the managing underwriter in the $75 million initial public offering by a provider of software and services to the medical imaging industry.
• Represented an environmental services provider in its acquisition of solid waste management and waste transfer facilities and debt and equity financings in excess of $85 million.
• Represented a family-owned sporting goods retailer in its sale of an $85 million majority ownership position.
• Represented a management team in the organization of a specialty finance company backed by more than $60 million of privately-funded capital.
• Represented sellers in industry-leading educational software business to private equity buyer.
• Formation of a multi-party, interdisciplinary joint venture, capitalized with more than $50 million, focused on the acquisition, recapitalization and development of distressed real estate assets.
• Represented a public healthcare company in its $50 million acquisition of a group of local healthcare providers.
• Represented a borrower in a $50 million international in-bound, subordinated secured credit facility.
• Represented a natural gas marketer in over $25 million of equity, debt, and financed commercial transactions.
• Represented an online retail company in more than $25 million of private equity financing and other organizational matters.
• Represented a family-owned construction products business in its $23 million sale to a strategic public company buyer.
• Represented a provider of prepaid telecommunications services in more than $23 million of private equity financing and other corporate matters.
• Represented a high-growth, consumer services company in more than $21 million of private equity financing.
• Represented management as the "stalking horse bidder" in a $12 million management buyout of two business units through a Section 363 bankruptcy auction which also included capitalizing a new company with a combination of debt and equity financing.
• Represented sponsors in the formation of a $10 million private equity fund.
• Represented registered investment advisor (RIA) business in more than $7 million of debt and equity financing and other organizational matters.
• Represented a specialized home improvement, building products and installation services business in more than $5 million private equity financing.
• Represented an international real estate services business in its expansion strategy of acquiring local businesses and developing local markets.
• Represented numerous publicly traded healthcare companies in the syndication and organization of several ambulatory surgery centers.
• Represented a power marketer in a financed power supply arrangement with one of the top 10 energy companies in the world.
• Represented companies and investors in connection with their private capital raising initiatives or investments.
• Represented closely-held, private companies and their owners with complex governance matters and buy-out transactions, which often involve issues such as employee-employer, landlord-tenant, and borrower-guarantor matters.
• Represented purchasers and sellers in bankruptcy court-approved transactions.
• Serving the role as outside general counsel to numerous domestic and international companies in many different industries, producing a variety of goods and services.

Education

• J.D., magna cum laude, Georgia State University College, 1999
• Associate Editor, Georgia State Law Review
• Phi Delta Phi
• Bleckley Inn of Courts
• Outer Barrister's Guild
• B.C.E., with honors, Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1993

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