Trace Blankenship

Overview

Trace Blankenship regularly advises chief executives, senior management, boards of directors and entrepreneurs on strategy, execution and legal requirements of significant business transactions, complex leadership and ownership decisions and day-to-day operations.

Trace represents both emerging companies and established businesses in key industries, including banking and financial services, wholesale and distribution businesses, technology and media companies, retailers, professional services, contractors and commercial developers. He also serves as outside general counsel for several of these companies. Trace frequently speaks to boards of directors, senior management, entrepreneurs and their advisers about current issues regarding capital formation, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance of companies with all types of ownership structures.

Trace serves as general counsel and secretary of Bone McAllester Norton PLLC and serves on the law firm’s board of directors ex-officio.

His practice is focused on:

• Mergers, acquisitions and dispositions
• Early-stage and follow-on capital formation (private equity, venture capital and debt financing through private placements and exempt offerings)
• Securities regulation/disclosure questions and registered offerings
• Corporate governance, board strategy, investor relations
• Executive leadership transitions.

He has extensive experience with:

• Leveraged buy-out and change of control transactions
• Financial institution mergers and acquisitions
• Tender offers
• National roll-up acquisition strategies
• Private placements of equity and debt
• “Going private” and “going dark” transactions
• Sales of closely-held businesses to strategic and financial buyers
• Representing boards of directors, individual directors and special committees
• Private equity fund formation.