Spencer Fane LLP (TN)

Member | Firm General Counsel

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.

His practice is focused on:

• mergers and acquisitions
• securities / venture funding / private investments
• company governance and board strategy.

He has extensive experience with:

• leveraged buy-out and change of control transactions
• financial institution mergers
• tender offers
• national roll-up acquisition strategies
• private investments 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 training.

Learn more about Trace.