W. Brantley Phillips, Jr.
Brant Phillips is chair of the firm’s 100-attorney Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice Group. Previously, Brant served on the firm’s Executive Committee and as co-chair of its Securities & Shareholder Litigation Practice Group. Brant’s practice focuses on complex business litigation and healthcare matters, and he routinely serves as lead counsel to public and private companies and their directors in high-stakes arbitrations, securities and shareholder class actions, derivative actions and business fraud cases throughout the country. Drawing on his background in public policy, Brant also leads clients through administrative and enforcement proceedings before government boards and commissions, with a special focus on obtaining certificates of need and regulatory approvals for the establishment and operation of healthcare facilities and services.
Featured Experience
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Successful representation of Medsurant LLC in appeal to vacate $18.8 million dollar jury verdict in case alleging tortious interference
Memberships
American Constitution Society — Nashville Chapter Advisory Board Co-Chair (2010-2015)
American Health Law Association (AHLA)
Birmingham-Southern College — Alumni Board (2016-2019)
Harry Phillips American Inn of Court (2008-2012)
Leadership Nashville (Class of 2019)
Leadership Tennessee (Class of 2016)
Martha O’Bryan Center — Board of Directors (2016-present)
Nashville Ballet – Board of Directors (2017-present); Member, Audit Committee (2020-present)
Nashville Bar Association — Board of Directors (2016-2020); First Vice-President (2020); Member, Executive Committee (2020)
Nashville Bar Foundation — Fellow (Class of 2014)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra — Board of Directors (2014-2020); Member, Executive Committee (2015-present); Chair, External Affairs Committee (2019-present); Chair, Governance Committee (2015-2018)
Tennessee Bar Association — Leadership Law (Class of 2006)
Washington & Lee University — Law School Alumni Council (2013-2020)
Representative Experience
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Successful representation of Medsurant LLC in appeal to vacate $18.8 million dollar jury verdict in case alleging tortious interference
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Lead counsel to West Tennessee Healthcare in obtaining a Certificate of Need (CON) to convert its existing hospital-based outpatient surgery center to a freestanding multi-specialty surgery center that will provide state-of-the art services
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Lead counsel to a Memphis-based children’s research hospital in obtaining a Certificate of Need (CON) to initiate home health services
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Lead counsel to Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. in its efforts to obtain a Certificate of Need (CON) to open a state-of-the-art opioid treatment program (OTP) facility in suburban Nashville, Tennessee
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Lead counsel to Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. in its efforts to obtain a Certificate of Need (CON) to open a state-of-the-art opioid treatment program (OTP) facility in Cleveland, Tennessee
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Successfully represented AmSurg Holdings, Inc. in a dispute with a group of physicians seeking to invalidate a non-compete provision that was a material feature of a highly profitable surgery center partnership located in Minnesota
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Served as lead counsel for Morgan Keegan and related entities in Federal securities, ERISA and derivative multi-district litigation related to investment company losses in the wake of the credit crisis
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Representation of the Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corporation (MTE), the largest electric co-op in the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) region and among the five largest in the United States, in its acquisition of Murfreesboro Electric Department for $245 million
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Served as lead counsel to BriovaRx Infusion Services in obtaining a Certificate of Need to expand services in Middle Tennessee
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Co-counsel to Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare (MLH) in its efforts to obtain a Certificate of Need (CON) to initiate radiation therapy at its hospital campus located in Germantown, Tennessee
Publications
Past Events
Media Mentions & Firm News
Accolades
Chambers USA — Litigation: General Commercial (2023)
The Best Lawyers in America© — Administrative/Regulatory Law; Commercial Litigation; Government Relations Practice; Litigation: Health Care; Litigation: Securities (2008-2023)
Best Lawyers® — Nashville Litigation: Health Care “Lawyer of the Year” (2020); Nashville Administrative/Regulatory Law “Lawyer of the Year” (2018, 2016)
Benchmark Litigation — Local Litigation Star: Tennessee (2017-2023); Future Star: Tennessee (2010-2016)
Nashville Business Journal “Best of the Bar” (2008, 2022)
Nashville Post “In Charge” — Legal Sector (2015-2023)
Mid-South Super Lawyers (2013-2022)
Top 50 Nashville Super Lawyers (2016-2018, 2021-2022)
Top 100 Tennessee Super Lawyers (2016-2018, 2021-2022)
Martindale-Hubbell — AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rated (2005-present)
Tennessee Bar Association — Corporate Counsel Pro Bono Initiative Award (2011)
Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers — Capital Defense Award (2011)
Washington & Lee Law Review — Senior Articles Editor (1996-1997)
Law Clerk to William M. Acker, Jr., U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama (1997-1998)
Phi Beta Kappa
Omicron Delta Kappa
Education
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Washington and Lee University School of Law - J.D., 1997
cum laude
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Duke University - M.P.P. , 1997
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Birmingham Southern College - B.A., 1991
magna cum laude
Admissions
- Tennessee, 1998
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Tennessee
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee
Chambers USA
"Brantley Phillips is a well-known attorney with a strong reputation in the Tennessee market. He leads the firm's litigation team and has considerable experience acting for clients in declaratory judgment proceedings."
From Chambers USA 2023