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Gene is a partner in the business law department and is serving as managing partner of the firm. He focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, and international transactions. Gene serves as primary outside counsel to private and public companies and has represented clients in numerous merger and acquisition and other corporate transactions. He currently serves as a member of the firm's Diversity Committee. Gene was a Captain in the United States Army, serving from 1969-1973. From 1997-1999, Gene served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Glenayre Technologies, Inc.
Representative Matters
Provides U.S. general counsel services for a publicly traded U.K. company and its U.S. subsidiaries that manufacture filtration materials and equipment for fuel cell materials.
Represented purchaser in leveraged recapitalization of plastics company.
Represented purchaser in purchase of snack food company.
Represented purchaser in purchase of telecommunications device manufacturer through a reverse cash merger.
Represented the selling shareholders in the sale of stock of an insurance company.
Publications, Presentations and Awards
North Carolina Super Lawyers, Business/Corporate Law, 2007-2008
Legal Elite, Business North Carolina Magazine, Business Law, 2006, 2008
Best Lawyers in America, Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions and Securities Law, 2005-2008
"Corporate Spotlight," American Executive, August 2007
"Ethics for the Transactional Lawyer," Law Seminars International, December 11, 2002
Judson D. DeRamus Award for Outstanding Alumni Service, Wake Forest University Graduate School of Management
Professional, Civic and Community Involvement
Professional: American Bar Foundation, Fellow
North Carolina Bar Association, Board of Governors, 2003-2006; Citizen Lawyer Task Force, Chair, 2007-present; Strategic Planning and Emerging Trends Committee, Member, 2001-2004; Development Committee, Chair, 1994-1997
Civic/Community: Boy Scouts of America, Mecklenburg County Council, Executive Board, 1999-present; Attorney to Council, 2001-2003; Executive Committee, 2001-present; Vice President, Finance, 2003-2006; President-Elect, 2006-2007; President, 2007-present
United Way of Central Carolinas, Board of Directors, 2004-present
Father's Day Council, 2006-present
Wake Forest University School of Law, Board of Visitors, 1996-present; Vice Chair, 2003-2004; Chair-Elect, 2004-2005; Chair, 2005-2007
Center for Law and the Humanities, Board of Directors, 2007-present. |
