E Marlee Mitchell

Practice Areas

Financial service providers and institutional investors value Marlee Mitchell's counsel in critical matters involving capital markets and regulatory compliance. Since the early days of her legal career at the Securities Division of the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance, Marlee has focused on the financial services sector. Today, financial institutions rely on her insight into the ever-changing regulatory framework within which they operate.

Marlee strives to help clients solve difficult problems that are unique to the financial services industry, while never losing sight of her personal motto, "work hard and be kind." Clients rely on Marlee's experience, commitment, and personal approach to address both day-to-day issues and long-term strategic objectives.

Marlee's corporate and securities practice experience includes:

- Underwritten public securities offerings of equity and debt

- Real estate securities offerings with an emphasis on public REITs and private real estate limited partnerships

- Private placements

- Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures

- Joint ventures

- Going-private transactions

- Investment fund formation

Professional Memberships

Member, Committees on Federal Regulation of Securities and State Regulation of Securities, Business Law Section, American Bar Association

Board member, First Farmers and Merchants Corporation

Board member, First Farmers and Merchants Bank

Member, WomenCorporateDirectors

Member, Tennessee Bar Association's Corporation and Business Law Section

Service Member, American Bankers Association

Member, Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society

Nashville Bar Foundation Fellow

Former American Bar Association Liaison to the North American Securities Administrators Association Corporate Finance Section;

Tennessee liaison to the State Regulation of Securities Committee

Former Adjunct Professor teaching securities regulation, University of Tennessee College of Law