PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Admitted to bar, 1975, Texas.

Education: Vanderbilt University (B.A., 1971); Southern Methodist University (J.D., 1975).

• Currently Chair, Board of Directors, Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody, P.C.
• President (Managing Partner) of Graves, Dougherty, Hearon & Moody, P.C. (1993-1997)

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

• Represented purchaser or seller in acquisitions and dispositions of business units structured as reorganizations, mergers, stock sales and asset sales.
• Represented company issuers in private equity issuances of preferred stock and subordinated debt.
• Represented company borrowers in senior debt financings.
• Represented institutional investors in connection with the formation of venture capital funds.
• Represented the tenant or the landlord in connection with the negotiation of commercial leases.
• Represented the purchaser or seller in connection with the sale and purchase of commercial real estate.
• Represented management or the company in various transactions involving employment agreements, separation agreements, and various types of equity and phantom equity compensation arrangements.
• Represented company at formation, including negotiation of formation agreements, partnership agreements and/or shareholders and members agreements.
• Represented tax exempt entities in variety of transactions and obtaining of tax exempt status.
• Represented numerous attorneys, doctors and dentists in forming and restructuring their practice entities.
• Represented parties to divorces in connection with the partition of business entities constituting part of the community estate.
• Represented companies in converting their form of entity to provide for most efficient franchise and income tax structure.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Member: Austin Bar Association; American Bar Association; State Bar of Texas; Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation and Austin Bar Foundation
• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® published by Woodward/White, Inc., Banking Law, Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, 1993 forward
• Texas Monthly Super Lawyer published by Thomson Reuters Service, 2003 forward

AWARDS AND HONORS

• 2010 Recipient of First Tee of Austin Award for Judgment
• 2008 Recipient of Byron Cox Community Service Award presented by Care Communities
• 2007 Recipient of David Walters Community Excellence Award by Austin Bar Foundation
• Recipient of the People's Community Clinic, W. Neal Kocurek Award for Health Care Advocacy, 2005
• Community Champion Award from United Way/Capital Area, 2005
• 2003 Pioneer Award, United Way of Texas (award for best volunteer in state from larger metropolitan United Ways).

COMMUNITY

• Chair of the Board, Shivers Cancer Foundation
• Chair of the Board, Rebekah Baines Johnson Center
• Chair of the Board, Foundation for Religious Studies in Texas
• Executive Committee, Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce
• Vice Chair of the Board, St. Stephen’s Episcopal School
• Board Member, Travis County Hospital District (Chair 2004-2007)
• Board Member, Headliners Foundation
• Board Member, TexHealth Central Texas
• Past President, Austin Area Research Organization (AARO)