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Tom Sherrard
Direct (615) 742-4523
Fax (615) 742-4539
Email tsherrard@sherrardroe.com Tom Sherrard is a founding member of Sherrard & Roe. 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 a J.D. in 1969 from the University of Florida, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as editor-in-chief of the University of Florida Law Review.
Awards/Publications - Nashville Post's 2010 "In Charge" List of Community Leaders
- Business Tennessee Magazine 150 Best Lawyers 2005-2010
- Woodward/White: The Best Lawyers In America (Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law) 1987-2011
- Nashville Business Journal Best of the Bar 2003-2009 (Corporate and Securities)
- Business Tennessee Magazine Best Lawyers 2007-2010
- The Best of the U.S. LLC 2006-2008 (Corporate)
- The Chambers USA Guide 2006-2010 (Corporate/Mergers and Acquisitions)
- Nashville Post 100 Best Lawyers in Nashville 2003 (Corporate Law)
- The Best Attorney’s Network 2005-2008 (Corporate Law)
- Super Lawyer – Corporate Counsel Edition 2009 (Mergers and Acquisitions)
- Mid-South Super Lawyers 2006-2009 (Corporate/Mergers and Acquisitions)
Selected 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 company counsel on more than $4 billion in taxable industrial revenue bond issues over the past 25 years
Professional Activities - Adjunct professor of law at Vanderbilt University Law School and at Owen Graduate School of Management
- Member of the Nashville Bar Association Board of Directors
- Member of the American Bar Association’s Committee on Federal Securities Law
- Member of the American Bar Association’s Committee on Commercial Law
- Member of the Tennessee Corporate Law Revision Commission
- Lecturer to professional groups in the areas of corporate and securities law
- Member of the Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations
- Inactive Member of the Georgia Bar Association
- Frequent presenter at programs for the Practicing Law Institute
Civic Activities - Past Chairman (2004 – 2005) of the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Governors
- Founding Chairman of Partnership 2010, the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce’s and community’s economic development initiative
- Trustee and current President of Leadership Nashville
- Member of the Vanderbilt Medical Center Board of Directors
- Founding Chairman (2002 - 2006) of the Nashville Alliance for Public Education Board of Directors
- Past Chairman (1999 - 2001) of the Center for Nonprofit Management Board of Directors
- Chairman of the Nashville’s Agenda Steering Committee
- Co-Chairman of the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt University
- Member of the YMCA Foundation Board of Directors
- Past director of the Nashville Symphony Association, the Tennessee Performing Arts Center, the Salvation Army, the Adventure Science Center, the Tennessee Repertory Theater, and the St. Thomas Foundation
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Abelow, Michael G.
Blumstein,Andrée Sophia
Brown, Kim A.
Campbell II, L. Webb
Carver, C. Mark
Cramer, Phillip F.
Farringer IV, John L.
Fielding, Scott W.
Funk, Samuel P.
Harbison, William L.
Helton, Lisa
Hickman, J. Scott
Ison, Mark
Kaplan, Michel G.
Koon, Linda R.
Lovell, Carla L.
Moore, Elizabeth E.
Neely, William H.
Pease, Gregory J.
Phillips, Betsy
Powell, Tracy A.
Rambsy, Phillis h.
Roberts, John G. (Gabe)
Roberts, Michael D.
Roe Jr., John H.
Sherrard III, Thomas J.
Smith, Mark T.
Voigt, John R.
Whitson, Christopher C.
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