Representative Transactions

• Representation of management in leverage buyout of a company in manufacturing industry, via creation of an ESOP and involving senior and mezzanine financing
• Representation of majority owner of major league professional sports franchise in dispute with municipality
• Representation of company in the services industry in connection with $37 million venture capital investment
• Representation of seller in manufacturing industry in $60 million sale of business to publicly traded company
• Representation of restaurant franchisee in sale of over 60 restaurants to strategic buyer
• Representation of a retail grocery chain store sold through an auction process to private equity owned strategic buyer
• Representation of publicly traded company in the hospitality industry in the divestiture of certain assets to privately held affiliate
• Representation of a publicly traded financial institution in over 20 acquisitions of other financial institutions and in a $300,000,000 sale of credit card portfolio
• Representation of a venture capital fund in acquisitions of companies in manufacturing and food services industries
• Representation of seller in mineral industry in $60 million sale to strategic buyer
• Representation of privately held company in connection with contribution of Canadian assets to and formation of Canadian joint venture
• Representation of privately held company in connection with contribution of substantially all of assets to joint venture with publicly traded company
• Local counsel for two separate hostile takeover attempts of publicly traded companies

Honors

• AV rated by Martindale Hubbell Law Directory

Education

1995 - J.D., University of Tennessee; Research Editor of the Tennessee Law Review and recipient of the Manier, Herod, Hollabaugh and Smith Scholarship

1992 - B.B.A. (Business Administration), magna cum laude, Millsaps College; member of Beta Gamma Sigma and Omicron Delta Kappa

Seminars

Mr. Roberts has lectured at numerous seminars on mergers and acquisitions and corporate issues

Publications

• Co-Author with Joan MacLeod Hemingway, Bill of Sale in Tennessee:  An Annotated Model Tennessee Bill of Sale, 9 Transactions: Tenn. J. Bus Law. 305 (2008)

Professional Activities and Memberships

• Tennessee Bar Association
• American Bar Association's Business Law Section and M&A Jurisprudence, M&A Trends, Negotiated Acquisitions and Private Equity M&A Subcommittees

Civic Involvement

• Board of The Sequoia Club, Inc.
• The Exchange Club of Nashville
• Elder at First Presbyterian Church, Nashville and Immediate Past Chair and current member of the Personnel Committee
• Nashville Young Leaders Council
• Youth sports coach extraordinaire