Beth Moore is a corporate and transaction lawyer with over 30 years of experience in the areas of corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and general corporate and securities law. Clients in a wide range of industries value her experience and counsel with respect to strategic and operational issues.
Beth regularly represents buyers and sellers with capital market transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings, joint ventures and other strategic alternatives. She is a trusted advisor in the private equity space where she leads and advises both investors and established and emerging companies on private equity and growth equity transactions at all stages—angel, growth and late stage. She also advises clients in commercial contract negotiations and general business matters as well as corporate governance, securities issuance and securities regulation matters. Her experience includes negotiating executive compensation arrangements.
Beth also advises clients on the formation of investment funds, including private equity, venture capital and real estate funds, and she advises individuals and institutional investors with respect to investments in various funds. Her fund-side experience includes representation of venture capital and private firms on a broad range of operational and strategic issues, including private equity investments in portfolio companies, commercial contracts and registration and compliance matters.
EDUCATION
- University of Tennessee College of Law, J.D., magna cum laude
- Member, Order of the Coif
- University of Tennessee, B.A.
BAR ADMISSIONS
- Tennessee
- Assisting numerous startup and emerging growth businesses in the healthcare, manufacturing, technology, e-commerce, fintech and general business services industries with business formations, financing transactions, general business matters and sale
- Acting as acquisition counsel to various buyers in the business services, fintech and technology industries
- Representing sellers in business dispositions in the e-commerce, financial and accounting services, healthcare, construction, manufacturing, retail, asset management and transportation industries
- Advising various strategic and financial investors/partners in the acquisition or restructuring of equity and debt positions and in the formation and implementation of various strategic ventures and business partnerships
- Representing various venture capital funds in the formation of multiple funds through portfolio company investments and sale
- Advising senior executives in connection with their employment and compensation arrangements and/or separation of employment
- Best Lawyers in America®, Corporate Governance Law; Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law (2009 – present)
- Best Lawyers in America® “Lawyer of the Year,” Nashville, Corporate Governance Law (2021)
- Martindale-Hubbell®, AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated
- Nashville Business Journal “Best of the Bar” (2005, 2008)
- Member, American Bar Association Committee on Mergers and Acquisitions
- Member, American Bar Association Committee on Middle Market and Small Business
- Member, American Bar Association Committee on Private Equity and Venture Capital
- Member, American Bar Association Committee on Securities Registration\
- Member, Nashville Bar Association
- Member, Tennessee Bar Association
- Dean’s Circle, University of Tennessee College of Law
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