Nashville, Tenn., April 20, 2009 – Bass, Berry & Sims Member Jim Cheek has been named co-chair of the Coordinating Task Force on Financial Markets and Institutions for the American Bar Association Business Law Section. The newly formed committee will be developing ABA Section policies as they relate to the many national efforts under way in Congress and in various regulatory bodies to reform the U.S. regulatory structure applicable to financial institutions.
Jim Cheek’s practice focuses primarily on the areas of corporation finance, corporate governance, mergers, acquisitions, private equity and securities offering. He also has an active regulatory practice, serving as an independent consultant and monitor for companies in need of an independent review of regulatory policies and procedures. Cheek represents a number of public and private companies as well as investment banking firms in a wide variety of capital raising and merger and acquisition activities. He also acts as counsel for boards of directors and board committees on matters relating to corporate governance and corporate legal compliance.
Cheek is an adjunct professor of law at Vanderbilt University Law School where he teaches a course in current trends in mergers and acquisitions. He has been a member of the faculty of law at Jesus College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, where he taught a course on Advanced Company Law and Securities Regulation. Cheek has also been chairman of the Nashville Metropolitan Airport Authority Board since 2003. He received a B.A. from Duke University, a J.D. from Vanderbilt University, and an LL.M. from Harvard University.
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