Don has extensive experience in commercial real estate matters, mergers and acquisitions, business reorganizations and counseling entrepreneurs in wide range of industries.
Overview
Don has extensive experience in commercial real estate matters, mergers and acquisitions, business reorganizations and counseling entrepreneurs in wide range of industries.
Practice Areas
Experience
- Serves as outside general counsel and trusted advisor to business owners and operators in a wide range of industries, advising on growth, risk management, and day-to-day legal needs.
- Represented clients in numerous transactions involving mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, capitalizations and reorganizations of businesses.
- Extensive experience in commercial real estate: counsel to owners and developers in connection with acquisition, construction, financing and disposition of variety of properties, including many multi-property, multi-state acquisitions, dispositions and refinancings.
- Advises clients in organization of various enterprises and reorganization of enterprises experiencing financial difficulties.
- Advises multi-unit franchise restaurant operators with regional and national portfolios regarding site acquisitions, leasing, financing, and ongoing corporate matters.
- Advises clients in workouts and consensual restructurings, including loan modifications and negotiated resolutions with lenders
Distinctions
- Martindale-Hubbell®
- AV®- Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated
- Best Lawyers in America®
- Lawyer of the Year, Corporate Law (Memphis)
- Corporate Law, 2006-2021
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2010-2021
- Real Estate Law, 2010-2021
- Super Lawyers®
- Mid-South Super Lawyer, Business/Corporate, 2006
Bar Admissions
- Tennessee, 1992
- Illinois, 1979
- Alabama, 1977
Education
- John Marshall Law School, L.L.M., Taxation, 1983
- Cumberland School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1977
- University of Memphis, B.B.A., Industrial Marketing, 1974
Associations
- American Bar Association
- Business Law Section
- LLC’s, Partnerships and Unincorporated Entities Committee
- Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section
- Business Law Section
- Tennessee Bar Association
- Memphis Bar Association