W. Randy Eaddy

W. Randy Eaddy

Randy Eaddy is a partner in the Corporate Department, where he has served as chair of the Securities Practice and co-chair of the firm's interdisciplinary Corporate Governance and Special Counsel Services Team. His practice includes particular emphasis on securities offerings and disclosure compliance by public companies, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance advice in complex situations. More generally, Mr. Eaddy is a counselor and advisor to executives and directors on myriad legal-related and other strategic decisions for managing their business to produce value for internal and external constituencies.

Mr. Eaddy has been listed for several years in The Best Lawyers in America® in Corporate Law, and recognized as one of the "100 Most Influential Georgians" and Atlanta's "Legal Elite".

Reflecting his broad range of interests and contributions, Mr. Eaddy received the 1999 Presidential Award from the Association of Social and Behavioral Scientists for services and contributions to the African-American community as an attorney, legal scholar and civic leader, and the 2005 Team Hope Award from the Huntington's Disease Society of America for Corporate Management and Diversity Leadership.

Selected Experience

· Lead counsel in over 200 financing and M&A transactions.

· Registered public offerings of equity (both IPOs and secondary transactions) and debt securities; venture capital and other private financings; proxy solicitations and contests; and disclosure and overall securities regulatory compliance by public companies.

· Representation of numerous managements, boards of directors, and special committees in varied complex and sensitive corporate governance situations.

· Counselor and advisor to select music and film industry participants.

Scholarship and Public Service

Mr. Eaddy has authored a chapter in a book; published articles in legal journals; served as a lecturer, moderator or panelist for numerous programs for the continuing legal education of lawyers; and participated as moderator or discussant for academic symposia. His interest in public and social policy issues have led to active involvement in numerous pro bono, civic and public interest initiatives. In reverse chronological order, a selection of such activities include:

· Principal Author, "Diversity", chapter in Strategic Partnership Between Inside and Outside Counsel, a multi-volume treatise published by Thomson/West in co-sponsorship with the Association of Corporate Counsel (original edition in 2000, with annual supplements and a 2005 revised edition).

· Author, "True Diversity Means Putting the Focus on Retention", The National Law Journal, October 23, 2006.

· Leader of (and principal author for) the Kilpatrick Stockton team that produced a 50-state analysis and report on "The Right to Bail and Other Limits on Prejudication Detention of Juveniles in Georgia" for the Georgia Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, October 2005.

· Author, "Principles for Drafting Capital Formation Disclosure Documents: Planning the Assault on Lugubrious Prolixity", Securities Regulation Law Journal, Fall 2004.

· Moderator, "The Business Case for Diversity - Redux", Program of the ABA Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession, 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association.

· Author, "Driving Diversity in Large Law Firms", I Workforce Reader, Spring 2003.

· Paper and Panelist, "Acquisition of a Privately Held Company: Some Thoughts on a Road Less Traveled", Doing Deals, Seminars of the Practicing Law Institute, 2003 and 2002.

· Leader of (and principal author for) the Kilpatrick Stockton team that produced the paper "Residential Segregation, Poverty, and Racism: Obstacles to America's Great Society" for The Quest For Equal Justice: Advancing a Dynamic Civil Rights Agenda for Our Times, A Symposium on the Occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law, June 2003.

· Leader of (and principal author for) the Kilpatrick Stockton team that produced a 50-state analysis and report on "The Selection of State Court Judges: Review of Primary Methods and Principal Implications" for the Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, December 2001.

· Paper and Panelist, "An Overview of Registration Rights: Simple Concepts, Complex Procedures", 3rd Annual Seminar on Venture Capital Transactions, Seminar of ICLE - Georgia, 2001.

· Leader of (and principal author for) the Kilpatrick Stockton team that produced an analysis and report on the 54 countries of "The Americas" for inclusion in Global Injustice an Overview of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance, a report sponsored and produced by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law to prepare attendees to the United Nation World Conference on that topic, in Durban, South Africa, Summer 2001.

· Founding Organizer (1998) and Co-Chair, Buying and Selling Privately Held Businesses, Seminars of ICLE - Georgia, 1998-2000.

· Paper and Panelist, "Implementation Models for Consolidation Plays: Special Complexities of the Simultaneous Combination/IPO", Corporate and Banking Law Institute, 1998.

· Chair, Advanced Securities Law, Seminar of the ICLE - Georgia, 1997.

· Paper and Panelist, "Development in the Area of Proxy Contests", Advanced Securities Law, Seminars of ICLE - Georgia, 1995 and 1991.

Background

Mr. Eaddy is a 1979 graduate of the Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Mr. Eaddy graduated summa cum laude from Furman University in 1976, where he received numerous honors and awards, including election to Phi Beta Kappa and Furman's Quaternion Society. Select positions and activities include:

· Judicial Clerkship, Honorable David S. Nelson, U.S.D.C., Boston, Massachusetts (1979-80)

· Associate, Hale and Dorr, Boston, Massachusetts (1980-82)

· Board of Trustees of Furman University; Board of Directors of the Winston-Salem State University Foundation; Board of Trustees of the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival; Board of Directors of The Winston-Salem Arts Council; Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Metropolitan Atlanta United Way; Special Advisor to Atlanta Board of Education.

· Member of the ABA's Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession (2002-2005).

· Listings for several years in The Best Lawyers in America® for Corporate Law.

· AV® rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

(Also at Winston-Salem, NC Office)

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