R. Barry Cannada

Practice Group Leader
Corporate and Securities Group

Jackson Office
Tel: (601) 985-4535
E-mail: barry.cannada@butlersnow.com

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Areas of Emphasis
  • Business Planning and Operations
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Business Structure and Capitalization
Distinctions
  • AV-rated, Martindale-Hubbell
  • The Best Lawyers in America®, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law
  • Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Corporate/Commercial
  • Mid-South Super Lawyers®, Business/Corporate
Education & Honors
  • University of Mississippi, J.D., cum laude, 1980
  • Farley Award, highest scholastic average in graduating class
  • University of Mississippi, B.B.A., Accounting, magna cum laude, 1977
  • Clerkship, Judge Robert A. Ainsworth, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit
Associations
  • American Bar Association
  • National Lawyers Association
  • Mississippi Bar
Bar Admissions
  • Mississippi, 1980
 
Legal Experience
  • Extensive experience in various transactional advisory services, regularly representing numerous public and private companies in connection with mergers, acquisitions, capital formation, public and private offerings and general transactional advice.
  • Served as Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel of a client for whom he had performed substantial corporate finance and other transactional work, where he performed various legal and financial functions while overseeing all the administrative functions for the company which at its height, earned approximately $2.5 billion in revenues and employed approximately 20,000 employees.
  • Served as a consultant to a national investment banking firm and took a position as President of a local, privately-held holding company where he also served as General Counsel to its operating subsidiaries.
  • Chambers USA, America’s Business Lawyers noted that interviewees hailed Barry as “the very best for corporate work,” citing his accounting background and his big-ticket experience as particular assets.
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