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Corporate/M&A

Tennessee

20 Years Ranked

About

Provided by Howard H Lamar III

USA

Practice Areas

For more than 25 years, Howard Lamar has helped clients navigate significant corporate events, such as mergers and acquisitions, public offerings of securities and private equity and venture capital financings (equity and subordinated debt); governance matters; operating matters; and general corporate oversight. He also advises companies on a variety of corporate and securities matters, including balance sheet structuring, corporate governance, shareholder activism, special committee and internal investigative matters, disclosure issues, strategic analysis and start-up concerns. Howard's clients include boards of directors and senior management of public and private companies, as well as early-stage growth companies.

Howard's practice includes:

- Corporate governance

- Mergers and acquisitions

- Corporate finance

Career

Joined Bass, Berry & Sims in 1989; Prior to attending law school, Howard spent three years with Bank of America (formerly, and during the time he was there, NCNB) where he was a corporate lending officer in NCNB’s Corporate and International Banking Group

Professional Memberships

Nashville Bar Association

American Bar Association: Business Law Section

Personal

JD, Vanderbilt Law School (1989) - Order of the Coif

BA, Vanderbilt University (1983)

Awards

Corporate/M&A (2005-2024)

Chambers USA

Nashville Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law “Lawyer of the Year” (2024, 2022, 2020, 2018, 2013); Nashville Securities and Capital Markets Law “Lawyer of the Year” (2021, 2015)

Best Lawyers®

Corporate Governance Law; Corporate Law; Health Care Law; Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Securities/Capital Markets Law; Securities Regulation; Venture Capital Law (2003-2024)

The Best Lawyers in America©

“Best of the Bar” (2020)

Nashville Business Journal

Chambers Review

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Corporate/M&A - Tennessee
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Howard Lamar is a veteran Nashville-based practitioner with a considerable profile in the market. His work covers securities matters, investments and M&A transactions.

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