John serves on the firm's Strategic Planning Committee and leads its Real Estate Capital Markets practice. He is the founder and former managing partner of the firm’s Memphis office. His practice focuses on securities offerings and other corporate finance matters, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and general representation of public and private companies and underwriters. John's industry experience includes REITs and other real estate companies, financial institutions, business development companies and closed-end investment companies.
Representative Experience:
- Underwriters’ counsel on 28 public offerings since 2005 involving proceeds of more than $2.5 billion for capital underwriters including Deutsche Bank Securities, JPMorgan, Friedman Billings Ramsey, UBS, Wachovia Securities, AG Edwards, Robert W. Baird, Morgan Keegan, SunTrust Robinson Humphreys and BB&T Capital Markets.
- Issuer's counsel on 28 public offerings since 2005 involving proceeds over $7.5 billion.
- Representation of special committee of board of directors of Summit Hotel Properties, LLC in connection with IPO rollup into Summit Hotel Properties, Inc. in transaction valued at approximately $100 million.
- Representation of special committee of board of directors of Quadra Realty Trust, Inc. in connection with acquisition by Hypo Real Estate Group in transaction valued at $650 million.
- Representation of National Commerce Financial Corporation in connection with merger with SunTrust Banks, Inc. in transaction valued at $7 billion.
- Representation of National Commerce Financial Corporation in connection with eight separate merger and acquisition transactions having an aggregate transaction value in excess of $2.5 billion.
- Representation of Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. in connection with acquisition of Flournoy Development Company in transaction valued at $450 million.
- Outside general corporate counsel to 16 public companies since 2000.
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