J. Nicholas “Nick” Kendall

I advise business owners who need to go beyond the handshake – providing them the exit strategy guidance, due diligence, documentation and deal structure that helps them successfully sell or develop a succession plan for their business. Clients tell me that one of the greatest benefits they get in using me is efficiency. I don’t waste anyone’s time or money. This also shows through in my transparent and direct communication style – I cut to the chase.

Nick Kendall represents established and start-up businesses of all sizes in their corporate, transactional and commercial real estate activities. Family-owned sellers and buyers throughout North Carolina and the Southeast hire Nick for mergers, acquisitions, company and partnership structuring, strategic alliances, to draft and negotiate shareholder and other agreements, and succession planning. Working hand-in-hand with Johnston Allison & Hord’s deep bench of sophisticated estate planning attorneys, Nick is able to coordinate a comprehensive service team that can provide growing companies and business owners and executives everything that they need. Transitioning older partners out of day-to-day company management, buying out individual owners or structuring the smartest real estate transaction so the seller retains the real estate and leases it to the acquiror – this is only a part of the value Nick brings to his clients. Nick has done significant work with manufacturing companies, from textiles to recycling, and from piping to plastics. In addition to his deep operational understanding of family-owned businesses in these and other industries, he also helps them strategize, structure, buy or sell their commercial real estate assets.