Grayson Hale Bio

Grayson Hale is a business attorney with more than two decades of experience representing companies and their owners, investors, and executives in mergers and acquisitions/dispositions of all types and structures including representing firms with employee stock ownership plans (ESOP); ownership succession structuring and implementation, financings; and day-to-day business matters as outside general counsel. Grayson founded and leads the firm’s architecture, engineering and construction (A/E/C) practice where for nearly twenty years he has represented hundreds of regional, national and international engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, geology, and other professional services firms and general contractors in mergers and acquisitions and business matters. He also regularly advises firms and private equity investors on structuring their operations in compliance with regulatory professional and entity licensing throughout the United States, including representing them in disciplinary matters before licensing boards. Grayson has unparalleled experience in assisting A/E firms with obtaining North Carolina professional licensure compliance using pre-1969 grandfather corporations. Other clients come from a wide variety of industries, including hotel development and management, manufacturing, wholesale, software and high tech, education, electric power generation and management, retail, and restaurants. As a founding partner of Morningstar Law Group, Grayson has hands-on management level experience that bolsters his insight into operating a professional services firm. Coupled with his accounting background, his business experience enables him to provide practical and effective legal counsel, not legal advice in a vacuum. Prior to Morningstar Law Group, Grayson spent 14 years practicing law and as a partner with national and international law firms in Dallas, Texas and Raleigh, North Carolina. When he’s not practicing law, Grayson enjoys spending time with his wife and three kids, the mountains, a little tennis and trying to beat the unbeatable game of golf.