Profile

Kevin Chapman's practice involves a broad range of corporate and business law issues. Mr. Chapman regularly advises clients and in-house counsel on the legal aspects of business transactions.

Prior to joining Parker Poe, Mr. Chapman was an associate in a Greensboro law firm, where his practice focused on purchase and sale of businesses, operating and shareholder agreements, and other general corporate and tax issues, including corporate and partnership tax matters. Prior to law school, he gained experience working in accounting, finance and internal audit.

Mr. Chapman was admitted to the U.S. Tax Court in 2006.

While at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Mr. Chapman was an editor of the North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology.

Experience Highlights

• Commercial contracts, terms and conditions of sale, sales representative agreements, distributorship agreements, supply agreements, and sales agreements
• Commercial transactions, involving the purchase, sale and financing of equipment, inventory and other commercial goods
• General corporate and commercial matters, including entity formation and dissolution, corporate governance, shareholders’ agreements, operating agreements, employee agreements, non-disclosure agreements, non-competition agreements and other related matters
• Negotiated transactions, including stock and asset acquisitions and dispositions, mergers, and other similar transactions for public and privately-owned companies
• Formation and corporate issues related to Section 501(c)(3) and other non-profit entities, including tax-exemption status matters
• State and local tax and economic incentives analysis for both business relocation and retention

News

• Playing the Government Incentives Game
  Public Company Forum Newsletter: Winter 2012
  January 26, 2012
• Forty-Two Parker Poe Attorneys Named as 2012 NC Super Lawyers
  January 20, 2012
• Kevin Chapman Named Vice-Chair of Arts & Science Council Committee
  November 8, 2011
• Facebook to Build Data Center in North Carolina
  Parker Poe Represents Rutherford County in Negotiations with Company
  November 12, 2010
• Theatre Charlotte Names Kevin Chapman Board Treasurer
  August 9, 2010
• Chrysler and General Motors Bankruptcy Cases: Time to Revisit Credit Risk Strategies
  Business Law Alert
  June 17, 2009
• Kevin W. Chapman and C. Mark Stevenson Join Parker Poe
  November 1, 2006

Publications

“I Spy Something Read! Employer Monitoring of Personal Employee Webmail Accounts,” 5 North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology 121, 2003

Memberships

• Arts & Science Council
  Cultural Leadership Training (CLT) Program Participant, 2009-2010; Young Donor Society, Steering Committee, 2010-2012, Vice-Chair, 2011-2012
• Theatre Charlotte
  Board of Directors and Treasurer, 2010-2012