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Hunter has almost three decades of experience advising clients on transactional and corporate matters. His clients range from new and emerging-growth companies to multinational corporations. His experience includes domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, strategic alliances, leveraged buyouts and joint ventures. Hunter is called upon for his expertise in corporate governance as well as for his experience negotiating and drafting complex commercial agreements in a wide array of industries, including financial services, chemicals, technology, textiles, manufacturing, security services, professional services, telecommunications and pharmaceuticals. Hunter regularly serves as outside general counsel to clients which allows him to develop a deep understanding of their businesses and to proactively identify and address potential legal issues. Prior to joining the firm, he served as the chief legal officer to a global consulting firm with over 3,000 employees in over 60 offices worldwide with its partner companies. As the chief legal officer, he assumed responsibility for the board of directors and committee governance, managed the employment and commercial litigation docket with outside counsel, oversaw corporate transactions and the global contracting group, and managed the worldwide trademark portfolio. Hunter has a unique understanding of financially distressed companies both prior to and during bankruptcy proceedings. He represented a number of clients in either selling or purchasing assets and businesses in Section 363 transactions. He also served on the legal team that assisted the Bankruptcy Examiner’s investigation of Enron, including the analysis of complex structured finance transactions and the roles of third parties in those transactions, as well as the Bankruptcy Examiner’s report to Judge Gonzales of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Hunter began his legal career with Alston & Bird LLP, an international AmLaw 100 firm with offices throughout the U.S. and abroad. During his first three years of legal practice, he acquired a broad base of litigation skills related to complex commercial disputes, product liability matters and debtor/creditor rights. His litigation background provides him a unique perspective when negotiating and drafting transaction documents and commercial agreements. He subsequently transferred to Alston & Bird’s corporate and securities group where he made partner in 2000. Prior to law school, Hunter began his career as a commercial banker with InterFirst Bank (n/k/a Bank of America) in Dallas, Texas. He completed the bank’s one-year credit analyst training program with rotations through various banking groups including national corporate, international corporate, real estate, middle-market and energy. Upon successful completion of the training program, the bank promoted him to a loan officer in the real estate group. Hunter was an Endowed Presidential Scholar at the University of Texas at Austin and earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance (summa cum laude). He distinguished himself by being elected to the undergraduate Dean’s List for eight consecutive semesters and receiving the Management Department’s Award for Corporate Analysis (cash prize). Hunter attended law school at Vanderbilt University where he served as an Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review and as Executive Associate Justice of the Moot Court Board. During law school, he was elected as a Permanent Member of the Honor Council and received both a Vanderbilt Law School Scholarship and the K. Harlan Dodson Award. When he is away from work, Hunter enjoys golf, tennis, traveling, reading and gardening.
