Sale of private equity, company and founder-owned businesses
Debt-to-equity conversions
IPOs, going private transactions, securities offerings and compliance, and corporate governance
General business law
Industry Experience
Healthcare, including surgery centers, home health, pathology and surgical assistants
Dental groups and dental management companies
Healthcare IT
Consumer products, manufacturing and distribution companies
Financial services
Start-up companies
Don Moody is a partner at Waller Lansden and regularly advises companies, executives and boards in complex corporate transactions. He has served as lead counsel in numerous mergers and acquisitions, sales, private equity transactions, venture capital financings and securities offerings. He has served as outside general counsel for several companies, and advised on government and internal investigations, proxy fights, joint ventures and various other general corporate matters. Mr. Moody has represented both public and privately held companies in a variety of industries, including healthcare, dental, consumer products and financial services.
Recent and Representative Engagements
Represented private equity fund in leveraged buyout and subsequent sale of dental management company
Represented dental company in sale of majority interest to a private equity fund
Represented consumer products company in acquisition of consumer products manufacturers and distributors in the United States, Finland and Australia, including $160 million acquisition of industry leader from a private equity fund
Represented surgical assistant company in sale of majority interest to a healthcare company
Represented healthcare company in arranging for $75 million in private equity financing.
Represented private equity fund in leveraged buyout of a number of distribution and manufacturing companies
Represented acquiror in $400 million leveraged buyout of dental management company
Advising a number of dental management companies on structure and compliance issues, and drafting of agreements with affiliated dental practices and dentists
Represented publicly held surgery center company in going private transaction
Represented company in recapitalization through a leveraged ESOP
Represented lender in conversion of distressed debt to equity investments in borrowers
Education
J.D., summa cum laude, University of Alabama, 1993
Order of the Coif
Articles Editor, Alabama Law Review, 1992-1993
M.B.A., Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Business, 1990
B.S., magna cum laude, University of North Alabama, 1985
Freed-Hardeman University
Professional Activities
Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations
American Health Lawyers Association
Dental Group Practice Association
ABA Merger and Acquisitions Committee
Tennessee Bar Association TBCA Revision Committee
Civic and Other Activities
Chair, Income focus area and 2009 Volunteer Review Team Member of the Year of United Way of Metropolitan Nashville
Board of Directors of Acappella Ministries
Board of Directors of the University of Alabama School of Law Foundation
