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Norfleet is a partner in the business law department and serves as chair of the department. He has broad and extensive experience in many areas of business law, and in recent years has focused his practice on mergers and acquisitions, securities, private equity, and general corporate representation. Norfleet also serves as special counsel to independent committees, individual directors, and minority shareholders in connection with corporate change-in-control transactions and internal investigations. Norfleet is active in bar leadership and other professional matters, and served as President of the North Carolina Bar Association in 2002-2003.
Representative Matters
Represented a manufacturer in the home furnishings industry in connection with its initial public offering, follow-on secondary offering, various acquisitions of related or complementary businesses, and sale to a private equity group in a going private transaction valued at approximately $111 million.
Represented a public textile company in connection with a $60 million tender offer for all its outstanding shares.
Represented a Special Committee of the Board of Directors of a corporation owning and operating a major speedway with its contested acquisition by another motorsports company.
Represented a resort real estate developer in connection with its acquisition of the corporation owning the land surrounding The Homestead resort.
Represented a major hardware distributor and its principal owner, a private equity fund, in connection with its sale to a strategic buyer.
Represented a Carolinas-based forest products company in connection with its acquisition by a Canadian public company in a transaction valued at $205 million.
Publications, Presentations and Awards
North Carolina Super Lawyers, Business/Corporate Law, 2006, 2008 (Top 100 in 2008)
Legal Elite Hall of Fame, Business North Carolina Magazine, Business Law, 2003-2008
Best Lawyers in America, Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions and Securities Law, 2001-2008
"Selected Ethics Topics: Case Studies," CLE presentation, January 2007
Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers, 2004-2007, Corporate/M&A
"Being a Corporate Director in the 21st Century: The New Paradigms," Private Equity & Mezzanine Finance Conference, November 2005
"Recent Developments in Confidentiality Rules and Attorney-Client Communications and Attorney-Client Work Product Doctrine," CLE presentation with Kiran Mehta, January 2005
"Judicial Elections and the Judicial Campaign Reform Act," Mecklenburg County Bar and N.C. Center for Voter Education, panelist, October 31, 2004
"New Developments in the Attorney-Client Privilege," presentation, UNC School of Law, October 2004
"Negotiating the Business Transaction," CLE presentation, September 2004
"Recipe for the Effective Lawyer," North Carolina Bar Association, February 2004
Selected Ethics Topics for the Business Lawyer," CLE International Seminar, 2002
"Proactive Measures to Avoid Insider Trading Problems," Mecklenburg County Bar CLE Seminar, 1999
"Creation, Organization and Dissolution of North Carolina Corporations," Wake Forest University Business Law CLE Seminars, 1990-1998
Professional, Civic and Community Involvement
Professional: American Bar Foundation, Fellow
North Carolina Bar Association, President, 2002-2003; Board of Governors, 1993-1996; Business Law Section, Chair 1991-1993
Legal Services of North Carolina, Board of Directors, 2001
National Conference of Bar Presidents, Member
Southern Conference of Bar Presidents, Member
Chief Justice's Commission on the Future of the North Carolina Business Court
Chief Justice's Advisory Committee on Political Activity of Judges
Civic/Community: Christ Episcopal Church, Vestry Member, Senior Warden, 2002
UNC-Chapel Hill Friends of the Library, Vice Chair, Board of Directors. |
