Tom Sherrard is a founding member of Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison. His legal practice includes mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, corporate and securities law and commercial law. He serves as general outside counsel for both public and private corporations and advises those clients on a broad range of corporate and securities law issues.
Mr. Sherrard received a bachelor’s degree from Duke University and juris doctorate from the University of Florida, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and served as editor-in-chief of the University of Florida Law Review.
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Representative Experience
- Served as general counsel to large hotel and entertainment corporation; addressed all corporate governance matters and led teams in acquisitions and dispositions of assets, structured financings and securities regulation compliance
- Served as outside corporate counsel to publicly-traded publishing corporation in connection with general corporate matters, securities regulation compliance and negotiation and consummation of going-private transaction
- Served as lead counsel in more than 50 M&A transactions over the past 20 years representing both purchasers and sellers
- Served as outside corporate counsel to the Nashville Predators
- Served as corporate counsel to numerous private companies
- Served as bond counsel and issuer’s counsel on more than $4 billion in taxable industrial revenue bond issues over the past 25 years
Education & Bar Admissions
EDUCATION
- University of Florida, J.D. with honors
- Duke University, B.A. with distinction
BAR ADMISSIONS
- Georgia (inactive)
- Tennessee
Recognition
- Best Lawyers in America®, Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law (2006 – present)
- Business Tennessee Magazine “150 Best Lawyers” (2005 – 2009)
- Business Tennessee Magazine Best Lawyers (2007 – 2010)
- Chambers USA, Corporate/Mergers and Acquisitions (2006 – present)
- Martindale-Hubbell, AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated
- Nashville Business Journal “Best of the Bar,” Corporate and Securities (2003-2009, 2011-2015)
- Nashville Business Journal Lifetime Achievement Honoree (2018)
- Nashville Post “100 Best Lawyers in Nashville,” Corporate Law (2003)
- Nashville Post “In Charge” list, Legal (2014 – 2017, 2020)
- Nashville Post “In Charge” list, Community Leaders (2010 – 2013)
- Nashvillian of the Year (2014)
- Super Lawyers, Mergers and Acquisitions (2009 – present)
- Super Lawyers “Nashville Top 50″ (2014, 2019)
- Super Lawyers “Tennessee Top 100,” (2014, 2019)
- The Best Attorney’s Network, Corporate Law (2005 – 2008)
- The Best of the U.S. LLC, Corporate (2006 – 2008)
Professional & Civic Activities
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- Adjunct professor, Vanderbilt University Law School
- Adjunct professor, Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management
- Fellow, Tennessee Bar Foundation
- Frequent presenter at programs for the Practising Law Institute
- Lecturer to professional groups in the areas of corporate and securities law
- Member, Georgia Bar Association (inactive)
- Member, Nashville Bar Association
- Member, Tennessee Bar Association
- Member, Tennessee Corporate Law Revision Commission
- Past President, Nashville Bar Association
CIVIC ACTIVITIES
- Chairman, Nashville’s Agenda Steering Committee
- Founding Chairman, Nashville Public Education Foundation (2002 – 2006) )
- Founding Chairman of Partnership, Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce Community Economic Development Initiative (2020)
- Member, Canby Robinson Foundation
- Member, YMCA Foundation Board of Directors
- Past Chairman, Center for Nonprofit Management Board of Directors (1999 – 2001)
- Past Chairman, Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Governors (2004 – 2005)
- Past Member, Board of Directors, Adventure Science Center
- Past Member, Board of Directors, Nashville Symphony Association
- Past Member, Board of Directors, Saint Thomas Foundation
- Past Member, Board of Directors, Salvation Army
- Past Member, Board of Directors, Tennessee Performing Arts Center
- Past Member, Board of Directors, Tennessee Repertory Theater
- Trustee and Past President, Leadership Nashville
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