Representative Transactions
I have been licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia since 1984 and and became licensed in the State of North Carolina in 2021. Transactions having a substantial nexus to other states are undertaken with the assistance of local counsel licensed in those jurisdictions, where appropriate.
Corporate / Business Transactions
· Sale of GM dealer franchise and related operating assets and inventory.
· Sale of veterinary practice and related real property.
· Disposition of all shares of stock in closely held corporation having significant continuing long-term exposure to toxic tort liability.
· Resolution of 50 – 50 shareholder dispute through buy-out of retiring shareholder.
· Sale of controlling interests in high profile personal injury law firm.
· Sale of minority interest in prominent personal injury law firm.
· Sale of assets of furniture manufacturer and long-term facility lease.
· Venture capitalist’s acquisition of interest in an operating construction company and establishment of related credit facility. Subsequent disposition.
· Venture capitalist’s acquisition of interest in government contractor metal fabricator and establishment of related credit facility. Subsequent disposition.
· Sale of multi-state food brokerage and structuring of principals’ compensation packages.
· Acquisitions of engineering practice, architecture practice by merger / share exchange.
· Sale of group medical practice to health system; long term lease of related real property.
· Combination of two well-known and highly regarded personal injury law firms.
· Sale of regional electrical contracting company to publicly traded “roll up”.
· Sale of line of business by prominent certified public accounting practice.
· Specialty Construction Company: redemption of hostile 50% passive shareholder’s interests (no shareholder’s agreement).
· Sale of passive majority shareholder’s interests in operating company to minority shareholders.
· Sale of controlling interests in large commercial interior furnishings / design business serving corporate, government and healthcare accounts.
· Structuring organization and ownership of bio-medical research and development start up. Related third party contracting issues with academic research institutions and National Institutes of Health.
Commercial Real Property Transactions
· Sale of GM dealer site to foreign grocery chain.
· 99 year ground lease for ocean front commercial parcel.
· Medical Office Building: Site acquisition, construction and permanent non-recourse loan financing, and tenant leasing for medical office building.
· Sale of Medical Office Building.
· Construction Company Headquarters: Site acquisition, construction and permanent financing, and tenant leasing.
· Virginia Lender’s Counsel for $17,000,000 facility acquisition club loan and related suite of indebtedness aggregating $64,000,000.
· Inter-generational family transfer of portfolio of income properties.
· Tax deferred reorganization (divisive) of shopping center holding company.
· Sale of multi-family apartment complex.
· Long term non-recourse re-financing of multi-family apartment complexes.
· Divisive re-organization of C-corporation operating company holding appreciated real property.
· 99 year ground lease for prime cell tower site.
· Sale of signature office building, seller financing, partial lease back.
· Sale of multiple office warehouse facilities.
· Long term lease of large industrial warehouse for data center.
· Mining agreement for sand deposits and sale of related real property for regional waste disposal facility.
· Sale of various cell towers, tower site acquisition agreements, development of tower facility leases, related financings.
· Acquisition of site for company engaged in treatment and disposal of petroleum contaminated materials, industrial wastes, and other difficult waste materials. Resolution of complex title issues.