Areas of Practice
Banking and Finance Law, Creditor/Debtor Law,
Commercial Real Estate Law
Education
J.D., Wake Forest University,
1975
B.A., North
Carolina State University, 1972
Representative
Experience
Broad
range of experience in business transactional matters, including financing
transactions, sale and securitization of assets, and the purchase or sale of
businesses in a variety of industries, or assets used in such businesses (e.g.,
banking, savings and loans, agriculture, food service, engineering, solid waste
disposal)
State
and federal corporate, commercial and consumer regulatory compliance issues for
bank holding companies and their subsidiaries
Extensive
contract review, analysis, drafting and negotiation in a broad array of practice
disciplines
Broad
range of financing transactional experience involving commercial lending and
real estate lending, conduit lending and other securitization transactional
matters
Multi-jurisdictional
practice and analysis of laws and regulations for clients involved in
multi-state transactions
Significant
debtor/creditor work-out experience in an array of financing transactions, and
an extensive creditor bankruptcy practice from 1979 up to 1998
General
civil litigation experience from 1975 through 1988, which experience included
jury trials in state and federal courts
Member of
American Bar Association, North Carolina Bar Association and Wake County Bar
Association
Chair of Poyner & Spruill’s Pro Bono committee
from 1997 to 2007
Past
Chair of Poyner & Spruill's Business Department; Past Member of Poyner &
Spruill's Management Committee, 1988 - 1996; Past Chair of Poyner &
Spruill's Technology Committee, 1995 - 1999
Notable Accomplishments
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America®
(Real Estate Law), 2006 – 2008
Ranked among Law & Politics magazine's North
Carolina “Super Lawyers” (Banking), 2006
