Experienced business attorney, fractional general counsel, and trusted advisor. Accepting new business. Mergers, acquisitions, and sales (including private equity acquisitions of accounting firms, accountancy alternative practice structures, beverage alcohol companies, and manufacturing businesses), supply and distribution agreements, leases, executive employment agreements, entity formation, securities offerings, corporate compliance, and corporate governance. I handle all types of business and corporate legal work and serve as part-time general counsel for clients. I was a senior executive at Brown-Forman, an S&P 500 company with a $25B market cap, where I worked for over 15 years. I worked closely with the Company’s controlling family shareholders, the CEO, and the Board to make the company a recognized leader among publicly traded, family-owned businesses for best practices for corporate governance, as cited in a 2010 Wall Street Journal article.
Listed skills include P&L Management, Strategy, Mergers And Acquisitions, Alcoholic Beverages, and 21 others.