We provide ongoing advice to our business clients in a multitude of areas. These include contract negotiations, franchising, employee and shareholder matters, corporate governance and operational matters, director and officer responsibilities, software licensing, joint venture structuring, business formation, antitrust issues, distribution issues, and corporate communications. We regularly advise management, boards of directors, and investors on the governance of their companies.
Our clients often rely on us rather than employing "inside" legal counsel. In turn, we strive to broaden our knowledge of our clients' industries in order to anticipate and react to developments affecting them. Our belief is that this regular advice and guidance on business issues is as crucial to our clients' success as the most complex transactions that we handle. The following are representative of our corporate engagements:
- Employment law
- Distribution
- Negotiating contracts
- Advising boards on fiduciary duties
- Hart-Scott-Rodino analysis and notification
- Franchising
- Municipal law
- Trademark
- Copyright
- Software licensing
- Corporate governance
- Director and Officer responsibilities
- Investor Relations
- Government regulatory matters
- Construction law
- Leasing
- Entity selection and formation
- Joint ventures
People
- John M. Brittingham
615.251.1074 - Curtis Capeling
615.251.1053 - Lara A. Flatau
615.251.1076 - D. Matthew Foster
615.251.1973 - J. Greg Giffen
615.251.1061 - Wm. Jay Harrelson
615.251.1090 - Jonathan Harwell
615.251.1060 - Michael R. Hill
615.251.1046 - Ernest E. Hyne II
615.251.1064 - Kris Kemp
615.251.1080 - Mark Manner
615.251.1066 - R. Davis Mello
615.251.1965 - Michael J. Mills
615.251.1041 - John N. Popham IV
615.251.1093 - Ryan M. Richards
615.251.1962
Experience
News
- April 15, 2013
- January 23, 2013
- November 7, 2012
- August 10, 2012
- October 5, 2011
- September 7, 2011
- July 7, 2011
- January 2, 2011
- November 2, 2010
- September 17, 2010
- June 11, 2010
Publications
- July 7, 2011
- June 16, 2011
- January 2011
- July 2010
- July 2010
- May 11, 2010
- April 2009
- April 2009
- April 2, 2009
- May 2008
- May 2008
