Allen Roberts is a shareholder in the Firm's Securities/Corporate Governance Group. He concentrates his practice in general business law, banking, mergers and acquisitions and private equity and debt offerings, including private placements of convertible debt, preferred stock, common stock and warrants.
- Represented management in leverage buyout of company in manufacturing industry, via creation of an ESOP and involving senior and mezzanine financing.
- Represented majority owner of major league professional sports franchise in dispute with municipality.
- Counsel to company in the services industry in connection with $37 million venture capital investment.
- Assisted seller in manufacturing industry in $60 million sale of business to publicly traded company.
- Represented restaurant franchisee in sale of over 60 restaurants to strategic buyer.
- Counsel to retail grocery chain store sold through an auction process to private equity owned strategic buyer.
- Represented publicly traded company in the hospitality industry in the divestiture of certain assets to privately held affiliate.
- Represented publicly traded financial institution in over 20 acquisitions of other financial institutions and in a $300,000,000 sale of credit card portfolio.
- Assisted venture capital fund in acquisitions of companies in manufacturing and food services industries.
- Counsel to seller in mineral industry in $60 million sale to strategic buyer.
- Represented privately held company in connection with contribution of Canadian assets to and formation of Canadian joint venture.
- Represented privately held company in connection with contribution of substantially all of assets to joint venture with publicly traded company.
- Local counsel for two separate hostile takeover attempts of publicly traded companies.
- Mr. Roberts has lectured at numerous seminars on mergers and acquisitions and corporate issues.
- AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
- Member — Tennessee Bar Association
- Member — American Bar Association (Business Law Section and M&A Jurisprudence, M&A Trends, Negotiated Acquisitions and Private Equity M&A Subcommittees)
- Member — The Exchange Club of Nashville
- Member — Nashville Young Leaders Council
- Elder — First Presbyterian Church, Nashville and Chair of the Personnel Committee
- University of Tennessee College of Law, J.D., 1995
- Research Editor — Tennessee Law Review
- Recipient — Manier, Herod, Hollabaugh and Smith Scholarship
- Millsaps College, B.B.A. in Business Administration, 1992
- Member — Beta Gamma Sigma
- Member — Omicron Delta Kappa