Tonya Mitchem Grindon

Practice Areas

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Tonya Mitchem Grindon is a corporate finance and governance attorney and serves as chair of the Firm's Business Department. Ms. Grindon is currently serving her second term on the Firm's board of directors, having previously served on the Firm's board from 2013 to 2019. She is also on the Firm's Corporate Governance Committee and is former chair of the Firm's Audit Committee.

Ms. Grindon concentrates her practice in securities and corporate finance, corporate governance, and business transactions.

Ms. Grindon is the top ranked female Corporate/M&A attorney in Tennessee (Chambers USA 2025) and is one of only two attorneys listed in Band 1 of Chambers USA Corporate/M&A in Tennessee (2025). She is also a Top U.S. Dealmaker (Global M&A Network 2019) and was one of the Top 10 corporate finance attorneys under 40 in the United States (Law 360 2010).

She routinely represents Fortune 100 companies in capital finance transactions and board and corporate governance matters. Ms. Grindon has been a guest on Nasdaq's TradeTalks television program, been featured on Centerforce's Women Trailblazers podcast, and has been interviewed on securities and corporate finance topics by numerous publications, including Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Ms. Grindon is also the author of the treatise "Tennessee Business and Commercial Law," published by LexisNexis.

Career

Licensed in Tennessee, Maryland and District of Columbia.

Professional Memberships

Ms. Grindon is a member of the American, Maryland, Nashville, Tennessee and Washington, D.C. Bar Associations and is a Fellow of the Nashville Bar Foundation.

Personal

George Washington University, J.D., 1997, with honors; George Washington University, M.A. in International Affairs, 1997; Vanderbilt University, B.A., 1992, cum laude.