Biographical Information
| LICENSES |
Member of Georgia and Tennessee Bars |
| EDUCATION |
Duke University School of Law, J.D. 1991,
with Honors
Washington University (St. Louis), A.B. 1987, Magna
Cum Laude, Honors in Economics, Phi Beta Kappa
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| EMPLOYMENT |
Carl L. Sollee, LLC, Atlanta, January 2003 to present
Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP, Atlanta, October 1997
to January 2003
King & Spalding, Atlanta, July 1995 to August 1997
Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell, Memphis, February
1994 to May 1995
Bryan Cave, St. Louis, September 1991 to January 1994
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| PRACTICE |
Corporate and Securities (including technology
practice). Georgia and Delaware corporate law and federal
securities law (primarily 33 & 34 Acts). Transactions
include leveraged buy outs, initial public offerings and
secondary offerings, private offerings, including offerings
by issuers to venture capital firms as well as private
offerings to non-accredited investors, issuer self-tender
offer, business acquisitions and divestitures via asset
sales, mergers and stock purchases, domestic and international
joint ventures, domestic and international licensing,
secured lending and work-outs. Industry experience includes
software, manufacturing, finance, retail, healthcare,
hospitality and bio-tech. Extensive experience preparing
and reviewing a variety of corporate legal documents,
including 34 Act periodic reports and filings (10-Ks,
10-Qs, proxy statements, Section 16 filings, Sarbanes-Oxley
compliance), 33 Act registration statements, stock purchase
agreements, asset purchase agreements, merger agreements,
certificates of designation, stockholders' agreements,
limited liability company operating agreements, trust
indentures, loan agreements, employment agreements, purchase
agreements for the sale of goods, license agreements (software,
trademarks, business processes), non-compete agreements,
commercial "corporate partnering" and "alliance"
agreements, warrants, convertible promissory notes, stock
option plans and legal opinions. Estate planning experience
includes wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, and
durable powers of attorney. |
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