About

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When the time is right to grow or sell your business, you need trusted legal advisors who truly understand you, your business, and your industry's unique dynamics. Baker Donelson's mergers and acquisitions team emphasizes collaboration, working closely with clients new to M&A as well as seasoned dealmakers. We focus on understanding your definition of success and partnering to achieve it through transactions that build, preserve, or capture maximum value.

Our team of more than 100 M&A lawyers advises clients nationwide and internationally, handling a full range of transactions, including stock and asset acquisitions, mergers, going-private transactions, corporate spin-offs, joint ventures, and ESG-related deals, including due diligence and sale preparation.

We bring deep industry expertise spanning technology, hospitality, franchising, financial services, energy, manufacturing, biomedical, retail, aviation, gaming, and transportation. Our multidisciplinary teams combine skills across corporate governance, tax, securities law, ERISA, labor and employment, environmental, intellectual property, and evolving ESG considerations.

This comprehensive, client-focused approach ensures that each transaction is strategically aligned with your business goals and market position. We help clients navigate complex regulatory environments, competitive pressures, and evolving legal landscapes to achieve successful, value-driven outcomes that support long-term growth and sustainability.

Chambers Review

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Corporate/M&A - Tennessee

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Band 2

What the Team is Known For

Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz maintains a solid reputation for handling an impressive range of corporate work, including securities transactions, M&A, joint ventures and corporate spinoffs. It is an attractive choice for national clients, owing to the firm's broad regional footprint. Its expertise covers a range of sectors such as healthcare, life sciences and energy. The firm is regularly engaged to advise on corporate governance and compliance matters, in addition to disclosure and regulatory issues before the SEC. The group is further noted for its well-developed REITs expertise.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Tonya Mitchem Grindon
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Tonya Mitchem Grindon
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Band 1

Tonya Mitchem Grindon has wide-ranging experience, encompassing private equity and investment matters. She has further expertise in corporate governance, SEC regulations, public offerings, securities and M&A transactions in the healthcare sector, among others.

Tonya is an excellent lead attorney for complex international and US needs.

Tonya very quickly grasps the implications of certain decisions. She is commercially astute.

Tonya is thoughtful, intelligent, hard-working and experienced.

Tonya is a valued adviser.

Mary Ann Jackson
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Mary Ann Jackson
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Band 3
Mary Ann Jackson has an impressively broad practice that garners her recognition in the Tennessee corporate market. She services clients on a range of mandates including securities and corporate sales for manufacturers, among others.

She is brilliant - practical and a great sounding board.

Ranked Lawyers at
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Corporate/M&A

Tonya Mitchem Grindon
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Tonya Mitchem Grindon
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Band 1
Mary Ann Jackson
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Mary Ann Jackson
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Band 3

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