Don Tucker

Don Tucker is a trial lawyer with over 35 years of complex commercial litigation experience, including significant experience in mergers and acquisitions, multi-party cases, class actions, claims under the federal securities laws, shareholder and partnership disputes and contract disputes of many types. He has represented a wide variety of corporations and their directors and officers, including large public utilities, pharmaceutical and other life sciences companies; financial institutions and insurance companies; issuers of securities; corporate trustees; and buyers and sellers of both businesses and of goods and services. Don appears frequently in the North Carolina Business Court and in the North Carolina federal courts where many of the above cases are litigated. He is a persuasive court room lawyer and advocate, but also is adept at alternative dispute resolution and helping his clients find creative and cost-effective solutions at earlier stages of a dispute, including before litigation is filed.

Joined Smith Anderson (1984). Co-Chair of the firm’s Business Litigation Practice Group. Past Co-Chair of the firm's M&A and Securities Litigation Team. Past-Chair of firm's Commercial Litigation Team. Honors: Best Lawyers® (2006-2021); Best Lawyers®, "Lawyer of the Year," Raleigh Litigation - Securities (2021); Benchmark Litigation, North Carolina Litigation Star (2010-2021); Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Rated; North Carolina Super Lawyers (2006-2019)

Admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in North Carolina, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court. Member American Bar Association, North Carolina Bar Association and Wake County Bar Association. Former Member, Chief Justice’s Commission on the Future of the North Carolina Business Court.

University of North Carolina, J.D., 1984; Duke University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1981; Christ Episcopal Church; former Board Member Artspace, Duke Children’s Hospital National Board of Advisors, Teach for America, Triangle Family Services.