Practice Areas - Corporate and commercial finance
- Corporate securities
- Mergers and acquisitions
| - Real estate investment trends
- Venture capital and private equity investments
- Healthcare
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| University | Yale University, B.A., with high honors, 1966 |
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| Law School | Vanderbilt University, J.D., 1969 Associate Editor, Vanderbilt Law Review, 1968-1969 |
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| Admitted | 1973, New York and Tennessee |
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| Born | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 12, 1944 |
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| Biography | Ted Lenz is a Senior Counsel to Waller Lansden and concentrates his practice in corporate and commercial finance, corporate securities, mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital transactions. Clients he serves include both large, publicly owned companies and small, start-up ventures. He has extensive experience representing real estate investment trusts (REITs), private equity investors and their portfolio companies. He also has represented numerous financial institutions in creating captive real estate investment trusts. Mr. Lenz has an active practice in representing venture capital providers and start-up companies. In the last year, he represented a regional merchant bank in its purchase and recapitalization of two portfolio companies including a healthcare services provider for which the merchant bank provided or arranged $40 million of senior bank debt and $35 million in common and preferred equity. During the past year, Mr. Lenz also completed a financial restructuring for a real estate services company that avoided a bankruptcy filing. Clerkships and Previous Affiliations: Associate, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York City, 1969-1973. Professional Activities: Member, Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations; Member, American Bar Association, Section of Business Law (Committee on Partnerships and Unincorporated Business Organizations, 1983 to present; Committee on Negotiated Acquisitions, 1985 to present; Committee on Venture Capital and Private Equity, 2001 to present); Member, Subcommittee on Manual of Acquisition Practice and Procedure of the ABA treatise "The M&A Process: A Practical Guide for the Business Lawyer" (to be published by the ABA in 2005); Member, Editorial Committee of the ABA treatise "Model Asset Purchase Agreement with Commentary" (ABA 2001); Member, Editorial Committee and the Subcommittee on Preliminary and Ancillary Documents of the ABA treatise "Model Stock Purchase Agreement with Commentary" (ABA 1995); Member, Editorial Board and the Tennessee Reporter for the multi-volume treatise "State Limited Partnership Laws" (Aspen Law & Business 1987) prepared by the American Bar Association Section of Business Law. Civic and Other Activities: Past President, Chickering Woods Homeowners Association. |
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| ISLN | 905519508 |
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