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Updated: February 29th, 2024 | Nashville | Lawyer List T | Bone McAllester Norton PLLC | Bankruptcy, Business Law, Mergers,
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Address: 511 Union Street, Suite 1600, nashville, TN, 37219
Law Firm: Bone McAllester Norton PLLC
Phone: 615-610-7715
Fax: (615) 238-6301
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Website: http://www.bonelaw.com
| Title | Member and General Counsel |
| First Year of Call | |
| Areas of Practice | Bankruptcy, Business Law, Mergers |
| Description | Trace Blankenship regularly advises chief executives, senior management, boards of directors and entrepreneurs on strategy, execution and legal requirements of significant deals, complex leadership and ownership decisions and day-to-day operations.Trace has represented clients covering a broad range of industries, including banking and financial services, wholesale and distribution businesses, technology and media companies, retailers, business process outsourcing, professional services, contractors and commercial developers. He also serves as outside general counsel for community banks and other financial services businesses, multi-state companies, heavily regulated businesses and emerging/start-up companies. He frequently speaks to boards of directors, senior management, entrepreneurs and their advisers about current issues regarding capital formation, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance of companies with all types of ownership structures.Trace serves as general counsel and secretary of Bone McAllester Norton PLLC and serves on the law firm’s board of directors’ ex-officio.A Nashville native and sixth-generation Tennessean, Trace is active in his community, chairing and serving on several non-profit boards through the years. In 2008, he led the law firm’s participation as a cofounder with Lipscomb University of the Dean Institute for Corporate Governance and Integrity in Nashville, and he continues to be actively involved as a charter member of the Institute’s advisory board. He is Assistant Treasurer/Treasurer-Elect and a director ex officio of the Nashville Bar Association. He also chaired the outside advisory council for the Nashville accounting firm, Blankenship CPA Group, founded by his father.Practice Concentrations Mergers, acquisitions and dispositions Early-stage and follow-on capital formation (private equity, venture capital and debt financing) Private placements/exempt offerings Securities regulation/disclosure questions and registered offerings Corporate governance and board strategy Executive leadership transitionsRecent Representative Transactions Multiple private placements/exempt offerings (debt and equity) for financial institutions, technology and media companies, investment funds, wholesale/distribution companies and real estate project developers Acquisitions of control (public and private companies) Tender offer and management-led consolidation of control of multi-state holding company National roll-up acquisitions for wholesale automotive auction holding company Management-led leveraged buyout of NYSE-listed services company Management-led leveraged buyout of private regional large equipment distributor Multiple business formations and capitalizations of technology companies Private equity investments in technology companies, service companies, and retailers Going dark transactions for public companies (most recently, a financial institution and a multi-state services company) Multiple sales of technology and media companies to public companies Acquisitions of professional services firms Acquisitions of distressed companies Special committee formation and advice for NYSE-listed retailer Investment fund formation and regulatory advice Community Involvement Tennessee Governor’s Prayer Breakfast: Chairman, 2012; Citizen’s Committee Member, 2009-Present West End Community Church (PCA): Elder; Session Member, 2002-2005 and 2007- 2011 Daystar Counseling Ministries, Inc.: Honorary Director; Board of Directors, 1996-2005; Chairman of the Board and President, 2002-2005; Secretary, 1996-2002; General Counsel, 1997-Present The Oak Hill School: Parent’s Association President-Elect, 2012-2013; Founding Co- Chair, Alumni Council, 2009-2012; Alumni Giving Chair, 1989-1990 and 2007-2008; First Grade Annual Giving Co-Chair, 2008-2009 Nashville Young Leaders Council: Faculty, 2004-present; Board of Directors, 1998- 2001; Secretary, 1998-2001; Graduate of 28th Class in 1997 Salama Urban Ministries: Board of Directors, Nominating and Governance Committees Williams College: Class Agent, Class of ’89, 2009-2010; Founding President, Tennessee Alumni Association, 1989-1999; Class of ’89 President, 1989-1994 Brentwood Academy Alumni Advisory Council, 1990-1992 and 2000-2002 American Council for Headache Education: National Board, 2004-2006 Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission: Arts Grant Panel Chairman, 1998-2002 United Way of Metropolitan Nashville: Sennet Society Corporate Recruitment Committee, 2000-2001Awards Best of the Bar, 2010, Nashville Business Journal AV© Rating, Martindale-Hubbell |
We are legal professionals who know the law, care about our community and are passionate about all we do.Bone McAllester Norton PLLC is a midsized law firm located in downtown Nashville, Sumner County and Williamson County, Tennessee. Driven to bring expertise and zeal for the law into an environment focused on high quality work, client satisfaction and community involvement, every member of the firm embodies its motto of ‘Law. Life. Pass…
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