Select Matters
- Asphalt M&A: Represented a leading asphalt paving and aggregates producer with vertically-integrated operations operating a network of strategically located assets, including one quarry, one sand and gravel operation, 11 aggregate yards, three asphalt plants, and a fleet of 168 owned and leased barges—in its $540 million sale to a diversified construction and construction materials company and a full-suite provider in the transportation, water infrastructure, and mineral exploration markets.
- Renewable Energy Tax Incentives: Represented numerous national and regional renewable energy developers in obtaining state tax incentives worth millions of dollars.
- Construction Supply M&A: Represented 50% shareholder of Southeastern-based construction supply companies in $30 million acquisition of all other outstanding voting shares from other shareholders.
- Private Equity Healthcare M&A: Represented private equity-backed brain injury rehab company in its strategic acquisition of a facility in Louisiana.
- Natural Gas M&A: Represented a natural gas pipeline drilling company in its sale to a strategic purchaser and its principals’ equity investment in the purchaser.
- Sales/Use Tax Audit: Represented manufacturer before the Mississippi Department of Revenue in $28 million sales and use tax audit.
- Precast Concrete M&A & Debt Refinancing: Represented precast concrete products company in its $12 million strategic acquisition in another state and related debt financing.
- Precast Concrete M&A & Debt Refinancing: Represented precast concrete products company in its $14 million strategic acquisition in another state and related debt financing.
- Sales/Use Tax Audit: Represented products manufacturer before the Mississippi Department of Revenue in $1 million sales and use tax audit.
- Sales/Use Tax Audit: Represented custom fabricator before the Mississippi Department of Revenue in $700,000 sales and use tax audit.
- Public Utility Resiliency Program: Represented public utility in the development of a distributed energy resiliency customer program.
- Public Utility M&A: Represented public utility in negotiations to purchase all street lighting assets of a major metropolitan city.
- Public Utility Hydroelectric Acquisition: Represented client in negotiations for the design, engineering, and acquisition of hydropower turbines for a hydroelectric generating facility.
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Credentials
Education
- The University of Florida Fredric G. Levin School of Law, LL.M. in Taxation, 2020
- Mississippi College School of Law, J.D., 2016, magna cum laude; Technical Editor, Mississippi College Law Review
- Mississippi State University, B.B.A. Marketing, 2013
Bar Admissions
- Georgia, 2023
- Mississippi, 2016
Professional Affiliations
- Harrison County Bar Association, President, 2024
- Mississippi Bar Association
Awards & Accolades
- The Best Lawyers in America®, Ones to Watch, 2023 - present
- American Jurisprudence Awards: Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Professional Responsibility and Ethics and Federal Income Tax.
- Mississippi College Law Review Publication Award