Biography
Chris represents buyers and sellers in mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. He also regularly furnishes outside general counsel services, regularly advising clients on a broad range of corporate and transactional matters, including corporate reorganizations and restructurings, commercial contracts, corporate governance, the formation and maintenance of business entities, and securities offerings.
Areas of Focus
+Mergers & Acquisitions
- Represented the affiliated owners and operators of southeast-based healthcare facilities in a $750 million sale of assets
- Represented acquirer in the purchase of a controlling equity interest of a U.S.-based subsidiary of a European holding company
- Represented target, a healthcare patient platform provider, in a $43 million merger with a publicly traded company and the pre-closing spin-off of target’s data-services business
- Represented target, a provider of communication services, in a $40 million merger with a publicly traded company
- Represented acquirer in a $176 million acquisitive merger with an insurance and bonding company
- Represented buyer in the acquisition of a professional soccer franchise
- Represented asset buyers in multiple, unrelated strategic acquisitions of restaurant businesses
- Represented buyer in a strategic asset purchase of a software developer
- Represented asset sellers in multiple strategic acquisitions of medical practices
- Represented seller in an acquisition of a continuing care retirement community owner/operator
- Represented seller in a strategic investment in a mortgage lending company
- Represented seller in an asset sale and equity rollover of a strategic communications agency
+Business Organizations & Transactions
- Represented multiple clients with Regulation D exempt offerings under the Securities Act of 1933
- Represented multi-national corporation in a comprehensive, multi-phase restructuring and reorganization of its US-based subsidiaries
- Represented joint municipal power agency in the development of an electric generation facility
- Represented multi-state fuel distributor in secured refinancing transaction
- Represented multi-state restaurant franchisee in a secured refinancing transaction
+Outside General Counsel Services
- Outside counsel for software developer
- Outside counsel for skilled nursing facility operator
- Outside counsel for equipment manufacturer
- Outside counsel for transportation and logistics provider
- Outside counsel for water-treatment company
Credentials
+Education
University of North Carolina School of Law, JD
Brown University, AB, magna cum laude
Harvard Graduate School of Education, MA
+Notable Accomplishments
Recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch (2022)
Ranked among Super Lawyers magazine’s North Carolina “Rising Stars” (Business/Corporate), 2018, 2021
+Professional & Community Activities
Charter Member of the North Carolina Pro Bono Resource Center Advisory Board
