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; ownership succession structuring and implementation, including employee stock ownership plans (ESOP); financing; and day-to-day business matters as outside general counsel. Grayson leads the firm’s architecture, engineering and construction (A/E/C) practice where he represents regional, national and international engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, geology, and other professional services firms and general contractors in mergers and acquisitions and related issues. He also regularly advises firms on structuring their operations in compliance with regulatory professional and entity licensing throughout the United States and represents 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 represent 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 gained hands-on management experience that bolsters his insight into operating a professional services firm. That enables him to provide more practical and effective legal counsel, not legal advice in a vacuum. Prior to Morningstar Law Group, Grayson spent 14 years practicing with national and international law firms in Dallas, Texas and Raleigh, North Carolina.