J.D.

Cooley

Overview

J.D. is a member of Butler Snow's business services group and focuses his practice on a range of corporate, real estate and construction matters. 

Industry

Experience

  • Sales and acquisitions of privately held businesses in a variety of industries including construction, manufacturing, information technology, healthcare, insurance, transportation, and wholesale and retail distribution.
  • Representation of a Dallas-based information technology enterprise in purchase of a peer leader in the IT space.
  • Representation of a leading information technology company in a sale to a multinational publicly traded company.
  • Representation of a metal sales and service company to a metal manufacturer and distributor of metal products.
  • Representation of the sale of the interest of a majority owner of a privately held roofing and construction company.
  • Representation of an infrastructure and utility operations and maintenance company to an infrastructure services company focused on the operation and maintenance of water and waste water systems.
  • In general, the representation of private businesses in formation, business strategy, and planning including corporate governance agreements.

Distinctions

  • Best Lawyers in America®
    • Ones to Watch, Litigation – Construction, 2021-2024
    • Ones to Watch, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2021-2024
    • Ones to Watch, Real Estate Law, 2021-2024
  • Mississippi Business Journal
    • Leader in Law, 2022-2023
    • Top 50 Under 40, 2021

Bar Admissions

  • Mississippi, 2014
  • U.S. Court of Appeals
    • 5th Circuit
  • U.S. Bankruptcy Court - Mississippi: Northern, Southern

Education

  • Mississippi College School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 2014
    • Managing Editor, Mississippi College Law Review
  • Mississippi State University, B.B.A., Business Management, summa cum laude, 2009
  • Clerkship, Hon. James E. Graves, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 2015-2016

Associations

  • Capital Area Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • Jackson Young Lawyers
  • Magnolia Bar Association

Papers, Presentations & Publications

  • Author, "You've Been Generally Warned - Smoking is Bad: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Food and Drug Administration and the Fight Over Graphic Warning Images in the First Amendment Context," Miss. C. L. Rev., Spring 2014. 
  • Author, "Baby Girl's Fate: Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl - Placing a Child's Chosen Parental Path in the Hands of the United States Supreme Court," Southern Journal of Policy and Justice, Spring 2014. 

Civic Involvement

  • Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
  • 100 Black Men of Jackson, MS
  • MC Law Bar Prep Mentor
  • Phoenix Club of Jackson

J.D.

Cooley

Overview

J.D. is a member of Butler Snow's business services group and focuses his practice on a range of corporate, real estate and construction matters. 

Industry

Experience

  • Sales and acquisitions of privately held businesses in a variety of industries including construction, manufacturing, information technology, healthcare, insurance, transportation, and wholesale and retail distribution.
  • Representation of a Dallas-based information technology enterprise in purchase of a peer leader in the IT space.
  • Representation of a leading information technology company in a sale to a multinational publicly traded company.
  • Representation of a metal sales and service company to a metal manufacturer and distributor of metal products.
  • Representation of the sale of the interest of a majority owner of a privately held roofing and construction company.
  • Representation of an infrastructure and utility operations and maintenance company to an infrastructure services company focused on the operation and maintenance of water and waste water systems.
  • In general, the representation of private businesses in formation, business strategy, and planning including corporate governance agreements.

Distinctions

  • Best Lawyers in America®
    • Ones to Watch, Litigation – Construction, 2021-2024
    • Ones to Watch, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2021-2024
    • Ones to Watch, Real Estate Law, 2021-2024
  • Mississippi Business Journal
    • Leader in Law, 2022-2023
    • Top 50 Under 40, 2021

Bar Admissions

  • Mississippi, 2014
  • U.S. Court of Appeals
    • 5th Circuit
  • U.S. Bankruptcy Court - Mississippi: Northern, Southern

Education

  • Mississippi College School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 2014
    • Managing Editor, Mississippi College Law Review
  • Mississippi State University, B.B.A., Business Management, summa cum laude, 2009
  • Clerkship, Hon. James E. Graves, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 2015-2016

Associations

  • Capital Area Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • Jackson Young Lawyers
  • Magnolia Bar Association

Papers, Presentations & Publications

  • Author, "You've Been Generally Warned - Smoking is Bad: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Food and Drug Administration and the Fight Over Graphic Warning Images in the First Amendment Context," Miss. C. L. Rev., Spring 2014. 
  • Author, "Baby Girl's Fate: Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl - Placing a Child's Chosen Parental Path in the Hands of the United States Supreme Court," Southern Journal of Policy and Justice, Spring 2014. 

Civic Involvement

  • Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
  • 100 Black Men of Jackson, MS
  • MC Law Bar Prep Mentor
  • Phoenix Club of Jackson