Mr. Fagan is a member of the Corporate Group in Baker Donelson's Atlanta office. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and other complex business transactions, regulatory compliance, corporate governance and securities, as well as general business counsel and providing legal management services to clients.
Prior to joining Baker Donelson, Mr. Fagan served as general counsel and corporate secretary for one of the largest privately held risk management and insurance agencies in the U.S. His extensive in-house experience also includes his work as senior corporate counsel and claims counsel for a national mutual insurer of physicians, hospitals, and health care facilities, where he advised executives and senior management on policy developments and regulatory issues and directed and provided legal counsel in complex business transactions, including the acquisition of another mutual insurance company. While in-house, he regularly drafted, reviewed, and negotiated complex commercial contracts, including employment agreements, leases, service provider agreements, and vendor contracts.
Relying on his extensive experience, Mr. Fagan also serves as a trusted advisor to business clients, providing personalized and strategic business advice on a variety of day-to-day legal issues, as well as consulting on internal investigations, complex corporate deals, and litigation and claims management.
Mr. Fagan's private practice experience as a litigator includes defending matters involving securities and shareholder derivative class actions, real estate finance, medical malpractice, and white collar crime.
Mr. Fagan served as a law clerk to Federal Judge Orinda D. Evans of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.