1065 East Morehead St.
Charlotte, NC 28204
Tel : 704.332.1181
Fax: 704.376.1628
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Attorneys
Practice Areas
- Mergers, Acquisitions and Joint Ventures
- Health Care
- Employee Benefits
- Commercial Real Estate
Type Of Work
John recently celebrated his 25th anniversary with the firm. He represents financial and strategic buyers, investment groups, management groups, individual and corporate owners, and family groups to structure and consummate stock sales, asset sales, mergers, spin-offs, leveraged recapitalizations, partnership and other redemptions and joint ventures; transaction sizes have ranged from over $250M to relatively small transactions in the medical, manufacturing, construction and distribution industries and have involved private equity, strategic buyers and venture capital.
Representative Work
- Served as counsel and negotiated formation of numerous medical care provider joint ventures coordinating regulatory compliance in connection with fraud and abuse considerations and other regulatory requirements; most recently, a 6-room multispecialty ambulatory surgery center jointly owned by a regional hospital and 20+ physicians.
- Represented textile manufacturer in a reverse subsidiary merger with $60 million + purchase price.
- Represented closely-held movie theater company in $125+ million disposition of 25 theaters in four-state area to publicly-traded acquirer.
- Represented family-owned retail chain in sale of 80+ locations to publicly-traded acquirer.
- Represented acquirer in a multi-million dollar international acquisition of assets and subsidiary corporations in USA, Germany, England, Brazil and Mexico.
Education
- Wake Forest University (B.A., History, 1980)
- Wake Forest University (J.D. cum laude, 1983)
- Wake Forest Law Review, Staff Member (1981–83)
- Admitted to North Carolina Bar in 1983
Honors And Awards
- AV rated lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell
- Named to Business North Carolina magazine’s 2007 "Legal Elite"
- Recognized as one of Charlotte’s top attorneys in Charlotte Business Leader 2008
Professional Organization
- Member, Board of Directors, Meritas Law Firms Worldwide (2003-2006)
- Member, Southeast Employee Benefit Conference (current)
- Member, North Carolina Society of Health Care Attorneys (current)
- Member, American, North Carolina and Mecklenburg County, Bar Associations
Community Involvement
- Member, Levine Museum of the New South Board of Directors (current)
- Member, Teen Health Connection Board of Directors and Board President (1999-2003)
- Member, Mecklenburg County Bar Foundation Board of Directors (1998-2000)
Personal
- Born in Lombard, Illinois in 1958.
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