Ted Lenz is a Senior Counsel to Waller Lansden and concentrates his practice in corporate and commercial finance, corporate securities, mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital transactions. Clients he serves include both large, publicly owned companies and small, start-up ventures. He has extensive experience representing real estate investment trusts (REITs), private equity investors and their portfolio companies. He also has represented numerous financial institutions in creating captive real estate investment trusts.
Mr. Lenz has an active practice in representing venture capital providers and start-up companies. In the last year, he represented a regional merchant bank in its purchase and recapitalization of two portfolio companies including a healthcare services provider for which the merchant bank provided or arranged $40 million of senior bank debt and $35 million in common and preferred equity.
During the past year, Mr. Lenz also completed a financial restructuring for a real estate services company that avoided a bankruptcy filing.
Education
J.D., Vanderbilt University, 1969
Associate Editor, Vanderbilt Law Review, 1968-1969
B.A., with high honors, Yale University, 1966
Clerkships and Previous Affiliations
Associate, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York City, 1969-1973
Professional Activities
Member, Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations
Member, American Bar Association, Section of Business Law
Committee on Partnerships and Unincorporated Business Organizations, 1983 to present
Committee on Negotiated Acquisitions, 1985 to present
Committee on Venture Capital and Private Equity, 2001 to present
Member, Subcommittee on Manual of Acquisition Practice and Procedure of the ABA treatise "The M&A Process: A Practical Guide for the Business Lawyer" (to be published by the ABA in 2005)
Member, Editorial Committee of the ABA treatise "Model Asset Purchase Agreement with Commentary" (ABA 2001)
Member, Editorial Committee and the Subcommittee on Preliminary and Ancillary Documents of the ABA treatise "Model Stock Purchase Agreement with Commentary" (ABA 1995)
Member, Editorial Board and the Tennessee Reporter for the multi-volume treatise "State Limited Partnership Laws" (Aspen Law & Business 1987) prepared by the American Bar Association Section of Business Law
Civic and Other Activities
Past President, Chickering Woods Homeowners Association
