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Leigh  Walton
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Nashville
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Education
Vanderbilt University - J.D., 1979
Randolph-Macon Woman's College - B.A., 1973

Bar Admissions
Tennessee, 1979

Memberships
Nashville Bar Association
Tennessee Bar Association
American Bar Association (Chair: Mergers and Acquisitions Committee, 2009-; Member: Committee on Corporate Laws, 1997-2003; Mergers and Acquisitions Committee, 1986-; Corporate Practice Committee, 1998- ) 
American Health Lawyers Association (Co-chair: Transactions Affinity Group of the AHLA Business Law and Governance Practice Group)

Honors & Distinctions
Listed in: The Best Lawyers in America®; Chambers USA; The International Who's Who of Corporate Governance Lawyers; The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers; Who's Who in American Law; Lawdragon 500; Lawdragon 3000 Leading Lawyers in America; Lawdragon 500 Dealmakers; Mid-South Super Lawyers; Nashville Business Journal's "Best of the Bar"
Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Phi Beta Kappa
Order of the Coif

Publications
“Bristol-Meyers Squibb/ImClone: Lessons for Pharmaceutical and Biotech Boards of Directors,” Business Law and Governance Practice Group of the American Health Lawyers Association, (2008).
“A Topping Bid for ImClone: Evolving Board Duties,” Business Law and Governance Practice Group of the American Health Lawyers Association, (2008).



Leigh Walton joined Bass, Berry & Sims PLC in May of 1979, and was named a Member of the firm in 1984.  Ms. Walton co-chairs the firm's Healthcare Practice Area and is also active in corporate and securities law matters.  Her work with public companies includes securities, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance matters.  For healthcare clients, she assists in the acquisition of hospital systems, structures hospital syndications and joint ventures and coordinates financing transactions.  She led the firm's healthcare regulatory team when Bass, Berry & Sims PLC represented HCA Inc. in its 2006 sale to a consortium of private equity buyers.

Ms. Walton is active in the American, Tennessee and Nashville Bar Associations, serving as chair of the ABA's Mergers and Acquisitions Committee and as a member of the ABA's Corporate Practice Committees.  She lectures annually at the ABA's Annual Mergers and Acquisitions Institute, at the Northwestern University School of Law's Securities Regulation Institute, and participates regularly in other seminars and programs on healthcare, corporate and securities law matters.  Ms. Walton served as co-chair of the Tennessee Corporate Law Revision Committee which drafted the Tennessee Business Corporation Act.  She was a lecturer at Vanderbilt University Law School from 1980-1987.  She is a Fellow of the Tennessee Bar Foundation and serves as co-chair of the Transactions Affinity Group of the American Health Lawyers Association Business Law and Governance Practice Group.  She is a member of the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency of Metropolitan Davidson County. 

Ms. Walton is listed in The International Who's Who of Corporate Governance Lawyers, The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, Who's Who in American Law, Mid-South Super Lawyers 2006, The Best Lawyers in America®, Lawdragon 500, Lawdragon 3000 Leading Lawyers in America, Lawdragon 500 Dealmakers and  Chambers USA.  She has also been listed in the Nashville Business Journal's Healthcare 100 and Best of the Bar. 

Ms. Walton received a B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, and her J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School, where she was a member of Order of the Coif and the National Moot Court Team.