W Brantley Phillips, Jr

Brant Phillips is chair of the firm’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice Group and focuses his practice on complex business litigation, healthcare matters, and regulatory proceedings. He regularly serves as lead counsel to public and private companies and their directors in high-stakes arbitrations, securities and shareholder class actions, derivative actions, merger disputes, and business fraud litigation nationwide.

Brant also represents clients in regulatory and administrative proceedings before state and federal agencies, with a particular focus on healthcare and utility matters. He has significant experience advising healthcare providers in certificate of need (CON) hearings and regulatory approvals involving healthcare facilities and services. In addition, he serves as primary counsel to the board of directors of Middle Tennessee Electric, one of the largest electric cooperatives in the United States.

Brant is also routinely engaged to handle appeals of adverse trial and administrative rulings and advises clients on complex public policy and regulatory matters.

Joined Bass, Berry & Sims in 1998. Brant served on the firm’s Executive Committee from 2013-2017 and previously served as co-chair of the firm’s Securities & Shareholder Litigation Practice Group. He represents clients nationwide in complex litigation, healthcare regulatory matters, and administrative proceedings.

Tennessee Bar Foundation — Fellow

American Health Law Association (AHLA)

Leadership Nashville (Class of 2019)

Leadership Tennessee (Class of 2016)

Martha O’Bryan Center — Board of Directors

Nashville Ballet — Board of Directors

Nashville Bar Association — Past Board Member and First Vice-President

Nashville Bar Foundation — Fellow

Tennessee Bar Association — Leadership Law (Class of 2006)

JD, Washington and Lee University School of Law (1997) - cum laude

MPP, Duke University (1997)

BA, Birmingham Southern College (1991) - magna cum laude

Litigation: General Commercial (2023-2026)

Chambers USA

Local Litigation Star: Tennessee (2017-2024)

Benchmark Litigation

Nashville Litigation: Health Care “Lawyer of the Year” (2024, 2020); Nashville Administrative/Regulatory Law “Lawyer of the Year” (2018, 2016)

Best Lawyers®

Administrative/Regulatory Law; Commercial Litigation; Government Relations Practice; Litigation: Health Care; Litigation: Securities (2008-2025)

The Best Lawyers in America©

“In Charge” — Legal Sector (2015-2024)

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