BUSINESS LAW

Title: Member

Other legal specialties: Mergers & acquisitions

Birthplace: Ridgewood, New Jersey

Education: Bachelor’s degree, Duke University; law degree, Georgetown University Law Center

Spouse: Julianne

Children: Bridget, 24, and Tommy, 21

First job as a lawyer: McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe

Recently read book: “Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson

How can the legal environment for business in Virginia be improved?  Repudiate Dillon’s Rule? Seems unlikely, but it stifles regionalism. Thanks to Del. Chris Jones and state Sen. Frank Wagner (and their sponsorship of the legislation that created the Hampton Roads Transportation Fund and the Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission), we’ve been able to pursue more than $5 billion in new transportation construction projects in Hampton Roads, including the expansion of the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel. Are there more solutions of this type?

What was your most challenging M&A assignment? Representing Landmark Communications (now Landmark Media Enterprises) in the 2008 sale of The Weather Channel Companies (TWCC). Landmark had a myriad of businesses in addition to TWCC, including newspapers, TV stations, media and information service providers (Dominion Enterprises), and a data centers business. To sell the TWCC businesses, we had to separate and spin off the non-TWCC businesses. The transaction (or, more accurately, transactions) had a bit of everything; the “summary” of steps was itself 10 pages!

Business Law list

Jeffrey R. Adams
Wharton Aldhizer & Weaver PLC
Harrisonburg

Christopher Ambrosio
Vandeventer Black LLP
Norfolk

James Autry
Culin, Sharp, Autry & Day PLC
Fairfax

Mark R. Baumgartner
Pender & Coward PC
Virginia Beach

David Bernhardt
FloranceGordonBrown PC
Richmond

William Bethune
Bethune Benes PLLC
Fairfax

Gregory R. Bishop
Williams Mullen
Richmond

Jo Anne Bitner
Odin, Feldman & Pittleman PC
Reston

Rebecca Bowen
ThompsonMcMullan PC
Richmond

Steven Brinker
Crenshaw, Ware & Martin PLC
Norfolk

W. Ashley Burgess
Sands Anderson PC
Richmond

Lindsey A. Carney
Patten, Wornom, Hatten & Diamonstein LC
Newport News

David Dallas
Williams Mullen
Charlottesville

Harwell M. Darby Jr.
Glenn, Feldmann, Darby & Goodlatte
Roanoke

Corey S. Davis
Woods Rogers PLC
Lynchburg

David Delpierre
Kaufman & Canoles PC
Norfolk

Dustin DeVore
Kaufman & Canoles PC
Williamsburg

S. Brian Farmer
Hirschler
Richmond

Thomas R. Frantz
Williams Mullen
Virginia Beach

Guy R. Friddell III
Landmark Media Enterprises LLC/
Dominion Enterprises
Norfolk

M. Seth Ginther
Hirschler
Richmond

Carl Giragosian
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Tysons

Allen C. Goolsby
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Richmond

Grant Grayson
Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP
Richmond

Michael Guanzon
Christian & Barton LLP
Richmond

Samuel C. Haisley
McCandlish Holton PC
Richmond

Lisa Hedrick
Hirschler
Richmond

Stephen Heitz
Litten & Sipe LLP
Harrisonburg

John Christian Hodges
Dunton, Simmons & Dunton LLP
White Stone

Michael J. Holleran
Walton & Adams PC
Reston

Kevin Holt
Gentry Locke Attorneys
Roanoke

Kathleen Horne
Sevila Saunders Huddleston & White PC
Leesburg

Thomas C. Inglima
Willcox Savage PC
Norfolk

Bryce Jewett
McGuireWoods LLP
Richmond

Thomas Johnson
Willcox Savage PC
Norfolk

Joanne Katsantonis
McGuireWoods LLP
Richmond

Sam Kaufman
Owen & Owens PLC
Midlothian

David Kuhnsman
Protorae Law PLLC
Tysons

David M. Lay
Williams Mullen
Richmond

Kevin Learned
McMahon, Welch and Learned PLLC
Reston

Gary LeClair
Williams Mullen
Richmond

Andrew Lohmann
Hirschler
Richmond

Edward B. Lumpkin
Spotts Fain PC
Richmond

Lamont D. Maddox
Guidance Law Firm PC
Norfolk

Vincent Mastracco
Kaufman & Canoles PC
Norfolk

Alison McKee
Kaufman & Canoles PC
Virginia Beach

Charles V. McPhillips
Kaufman & Canoles PC
Norfolk

John McWilliams
Reed Smith LLP
McLean

V. Rick Nishanian
Vanderpool, Frostick & Nishanian PC
Manassas

Eric Perkins
Perkins Law PLLC
Glen Allen

David Pettit
Flora Pettit PC
Charlottesville

Brian Pitney
Sands Anderson PC
Richmond

Albert Poole
Poole Brooke Plumlee PC
Virginia Beach

Steven Popps
McGuireWoods LLP
Richmond

Brian Purcell
Willcox Savage PC
Norfolk

Phillip Quatrini
Rimon PC
McLean

Alfred Randolph
Kaufman & Canoles PC
Norfolk

Robert Rhatigan
Dechert LLP
Washington, D.C.

Wm. Quinton Robinson
Blankingship & Keith PC
Fairfax

John Selbach
Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP
Richmond

Robert Sevila
Sevila Saunders Huddleston & White PC
Leesburg

Roderick Simmons
Hirschler
Richmond

George Snead
Parrish Snead Franklin Simpson PLC
Fredericksburg

Eric J. Sorenson Jr.
Woods Rogers PLC
Lynchburg

Raymond Suttle
Jones, Blechman, Woltz & Kelly PC
Newport News

William Van Buren
Kaufman & Canoles PC
Norfolk

James Van Horn
Hirschler
Richmond

Autumn Visser
Woods Rogers PLC
Roanoke

J. Britton Williston
Kaufman & Canoles PC
Norfolk

Cher Wynkoop
Willcox Savage PC
Norfolk