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 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 vice chair of the ABA's Committee on Negotiated Acquisitions 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 member of the American Health Lawyers Association and a Fellow of the Tennessee Bar Foundation. 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 Dealmakersand 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.
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