Profile

John Hairr represents a variety of foreign and domestic businesses, both public and private.

Experience Highlights

Mr. Hairr regularly advises clients in a broad range of matters including:

• Mergers and acquisitions, including stock and asset acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures and other similar transactions for public and privately owned companies
• Mergers and acquisitions of businesses in bankruptcy and other financially distressed businesses
• Structuring of acquisition-related corporate financing, including debt and equity securities
• Secured and unsecured financings
• Corporate reorganizations and restructurings
• Design and implementation of corporate compliance programs
• Negotiation of real estate leases, supply and franchise agreements and other commercial contracts
• General corporate and commercial matters, including structuring, organizing and funding start-up concerns

News

• Twenty-One Parker Poe Attorneys Among "Legal Elite" for 2009
  January 1, 2009
• More than 50 Parker Poe Attorneys among Business Leader's Top Lawyers
  September 24, 2008
• Seventeen Parker Poe Attorneys Among "Legal Elite"
  January 20, 2006

Events & Speaking Engagements

• Basics of Business Law, Planner/Chair
  May 2006
  North Carolina Bar Association
• Buying and Selling a Business in North Carolina
  November 2003
  Sterling Education Services

Memberships

• Catawba Lands Conservancy
  Development Committee Member, 2005-present; Development Committee Chairman, 2005-2008; Secretary, 2004-2008; Executive Committee Member, 2004-2008; Board Member, 2002-2008
• Lupus Foundation of America
  Board Member, Piedmont Chapter, 2001-2004