Drew Oldham

Drew is a member of Butler Snow’s Business Services Group and the Finance, Real Estate and Restructuring Group. A corporate and transactional attorney in the firm’s Nashville office, he focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and securities, and corporate formation and governance.

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Corporate Finance & Securities
• Corporate Governance
• Organization & Capital Formation

Drew advises privately held and owner-operated businesses, founders, physician groups, strategic acquirers and investors in acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, capital raises and other strategic transactions. He frequently represents business and physician owners in sales to private equity sponsors, private equity-backed platforms and strategic buyers. His experience spans healthcare, financial services, insurance, technology and digital media, manufacturing, distribution, retail, consumer products, real estate and business services.

Healthcare transactions are a significant part of Drew’s practice. He has represented clients in the acquisition and sale of controlling interests in more than 40 ambulatory surgery centers and physician practices, including ophthalmology, retina, ear, nose and throat, and interventional pain practices. His broader healthcare experience includes health maintenance organizations, skilled nursing facilities, healthcare coding and staffing businesses, and healthcare SAAS businesses.

In addition to transactional matters, Drew counsels clients on entity formation, corporate reorganizations, corporate governance, securities matters, commercial contracts and other general corporate matters.

Selected Representative Experience

Healthcare Transactions

• Represented clients in acquisitions and divestitures of controlling interests in more than 40 ambulatory surgery centers and physician practices.
• Represented a multi-state Medicare Advantage platform serving long-term care populations in the formation and acquisition of health maintenance organizations across several states.
• Represented a regional senior healthcare provider and skilled nursing facility operator in the acquisition of two skilled nursing facilities.
• Represented physician owners in sale transactions involving ophthalmology and retina practices in Texas, Virginia, South Carolina and Ohio, each involving a private equity sponsor or private equity-backed platform.
• Represented physician owners of Michigan-based ear, nose and throat practices in sales to private equity-backed platforms.
• Represented the physician owners of a Georgia-based interventional pain practice in its sale to a private equity sponsor.
• Represented a healthcare staffing company in the strategic divestiture of a business division to an industry buyer.

Other Merger, Acquisition and Strategic Transactions

• Represented the owners of a provider of identity-fraud remediation, data-breach response and consumer-protection services in its sale to a strategic buyer.
• Represented an office furniture and business supplies distributor in a series of strategic acquisitions of competitors.
• Represented the owner of a telecommunications consulting business in its sale to a private equity buyer.
• Represented a digital media company focused on creator-founded online video brands in several acquisitions of established online video channels.
• Represented the shareholders of a spirits company in a sale to a strategic buyer.
• Represented the owners of a recycling business in a sale of the operating company and related real estate to a strategic buyer.
• Represented the owners of a regional provider of commercial and industrial HVAC equipment and services in its sale to a private equity-backed platform.
• Represented the owner of a multi-location car wash business in a series of sales of individual locations to multiple buyers.
• Represented the owners of a commercial landscaping services company in its sale to a private equity-backed platform.
• Represented the owners of a pest control services company in its sale to a private equity-backed platform.
• Represented a public-private partnership regarding the administration of its investment fund and related investments in early-stage companies.

Capital Formation and Corporate Matters

• Advised companies in various industries with respect to capital raises and other issuances of securities.
• Counsels emerging and established companies regarding entity formation, capitalization, corporate reorganizations, governance, joint ventures, commercial agreements and other general corporate matters.
• Regularly counsels owners of closely-held business with respect to entity formation, operating agreements and other organizational documents, and other company governance matters.

• BL Rankings, The Best Lawyers in America®
  • Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2027
  • Corporate Law, 2024-2027
  • Real Estate Law, 2025-2027

• Tennessee, 2009

• University of Tennessee, J.D., summa cum laude, 2009
  • Member, Order of the Coif
  • Articles Editor, Tennessee Law Review
  • Student Editor, Transactions: Tennessee Journal of Business Law
• University of Georgia, A.B., English and Political Science, cum laude, 2006

• Tennessee Bar Association
• Nashville Bar Association
• American Bar Association

• Author, “Reference to a Description of Land in a Plat Book is Sufficient to Allege Color of Title to Satisfy the Requirements of an Adverse Possession Claim,” 10 TRANS. TENN. J. BUS. L. 281, Spring 2009.
• Author, “Tennessee Anti-Lapse Statute Does Not Save Gifts to Devisee’s Issue When the Language in the Will Allows a Contrary Inference,” 9 TRANS. TENN. J. BUS. L. 284, Fall 2007.

• Harding Academy, Former General Counsel and Member of the Board of Trustees
• Special Olympics Tennessee, Inc., Former Member of the Board of Directors