Practice Areas - Securities offerings and compliance
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Healthcare and dental law
- Private equity
- Sale of private equity, company and founder-owned businesses
- Debt-to-equity conversions
- IPOs, going private transactions, securities offerings and compliance, and corporate governance
| - General business law
- Healthcare, including surgery centers, home health, pathology and surgical assistants
- Dental groups and dental management companies
- Healthcare IT
- Consumer products, manufacturing and distribution companies
- Financial services
- Start-up companies
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| University | Freed-Hardeman University; University of North Alabama, B.S., magna cum laude, 1985; Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Business, M.B.A., 1990; Order of the Coif |
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| Law School | University of Alabama, J.D., summa cum laude, 1993; Articles Editor, Alabama Law Review, 1992-1993 |
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| Admitted | 1993, Tennessee |
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| Born | Florence, Alabama, August 21, 1961 |
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| Biography | Don Moody is a partner at Waller Lansden and regularly advises companies, executives and boards in complex corporate transactions. He has served as lead counsel in numerous mergers and acquisitions, sales, private equity transactions, venture capital financings and securities offerings. He has served as outside general counsel for several companies, and advised on government and internal investigations, proxy fights, joint ventures and various other general corporate matters. Mr. Moody has represented both public and privately held companies in a variety of industries, including healthcare, dental, consumer products and financial services. Recent and Representative Engagements: Represented private equity fund in leveraged buyout and subsequent sale of dental management company; Represented dental company in sale of majority interest to a private equity fund; Represented consumer products company in acquisition of consumer products manufacturers and distributors in the United States, Finland and Australia, including $160 million acquisition of industry leader from a private equity fund; Represented surgical assistant company in sale of majority interest to a healthcare company; Represented healthcare company in arranging for $75 million in private equity financing; Represented private equity fund in leveraged buyout of a number of distribution and manufacturing companies; Represented acquiror in $400 million leveraged buyout of dental management company; Advising a number of dental management companies on structure and compliance issues, and drafting of agreements with affiliated dental practices and dentists; Represented publicly held surgery center company in going private transaction; Represented company in recapitalization through a leveraged ESOP; Represented lender in conversion of distressed debt to equity investments in borrowers. Professional Activities: Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations; American Health Lawyers Association; Dental Group Practice Association; ABA Merger and Acquisitions Committee; Tennessee Bar Association TBCA Revision Committee. Civic and Other Activities: Chair, Income focus area and 2009 Volunteer Review Team Member of the Year of United Way of Metropolitan Nashville; Board of Directors of Acappella Ministries; Board of Directors of the University of Alabama School of Law Foundation; Middle Tennessee Arabian Horse Association. Articles: 12/14/2009, Healthcare Reform and Dentistry: How Pending Legislation May Impact the Dental Delivery and Payment Systems; 5/23/2005, Recent SEC "Regulation FD" Action Merits Attention of Public Companies; 4/7/2005, SEC Brings Regulation FD Enforcement Action for Reaffirming Earnings Guidance; 1/24/2005, Compensation Committees and the Stricter Standards of Independence Under SEC Rules and the Internal Revenue Code. |
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| ISLN | 900458000 |
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