Profile

Skip Smart leads the Firm’s Business Law Department. He provides seasoned transactional advice and corporate counseling to both private and public companies. He has an extensive mergers and acquisitions practice, and regularly advises clients in auction-type acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures, leveraged acquisitions and related financings, and roll-up and build-up strategies, including techniques for the efficient and cost-effective completion of serial industry-specific acquisitions.

Mr. Smart has experience advising officers and directors on a variety of corporate governance issues. He has assisted clients in the design and implementation of corporate compliance programs, and represented special committees in recapitalizations and management buyouts.

Mr. Smart has represented clients in a wide range of industries, including specialty manufacturing, equipment rentals, telecommunications, energy, textiles, banking and IT services.

Representative Matters

Mr. Smart’s transactional experience includes:

• Acted as principal U.S. M&A and corporate counsel to a leading equipment rental concern through two decades of growth, from a two-location operation to a national concern with more than 450 locations

• Served as lead counsel in the sale via auction of a controlling interest in a privately held specialty packaging business to a financial buyer

• Advised the special committee of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company in a going private sale to the company’s founder

• Acted as lead counsel in the reorganization of a utility client’s fiber telecommunications business into a joint venture, and the sale of 50% of its equity to a private equity firm

• Represented a family-owned specialty hardware distributor in a recapitalization involving the sale of a controlling interest to an investor group

• Represented a NASDAQ-listed client in a series of acquisitions of call centers located in the U.S., Sweden and Germany

News

• Forty-Four Parker Poe Attorneys Named 2013 NC Super Lawyers
  January 18, 2013
• 74 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2013
  August 23, 2012
• Chambers USA 2012 Ranks Parker Poe as Leading Law Firm
  June 7, 2012
• Forty-Two Parker Poe Attorneys Named as 2012 NC Super Lawyers
  January 20, 2012
• 69 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2012
  September 6, 2011
• Chambers USA 2011 Ranks Parker Poe as Leading Law Firm
  June 10, 2011
• Client’s Transaction Named Private Equity Deal of the Year
  Carolina Beer & Beverage Deal Recognized at Capital Connection Conference in Durham
  May 10, 2011
• Roy L. “Skip” Smart III Named BTI Client Service All-Star for 2011
  April 7, 2011
• Thirty-Seven Parker Poe Attorneys Named NC Super Lawyers for 2011
  January 25, 2011
• 61 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2011
  August 18, 2010
• Law & Politics Names 36 Parker Poe Attorneys as Super Lawyers
  January 28, 2010
• 55 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers®
  July 30, 2009
• Forty-Six Attorneys Named Super Lawyers
  January 26, 2009
• Parker Poe Increases Number of Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers in America
  October 1, 2008
• More than 50 Parker Poe Attorneys among Business Leader's Top Lawyers
  September 24, 2008
• Twenty-One Parker Poe Attorneys Named Super Lawyers
  January 28, 2008
• 40 Parker Poe Attorneys Named Among 2008 Best Lawyers in America
  September 14, 2007
• Nineteen Parker Poe Attorneys Named North Carolina Super Lawyers 2007
  January 26, 2007
• Fifteen Parker Poe Attorneys Among "Legal Elite"
  January 8, 2007
• Parker Poe Attorneys Named to Best Lawyers in America
  September 12, 2006
• M&A Price Adjustment Clauses: Buyer Beware?
  Business Law Alert
  September 11, 2006
• FTC Announces Changes to Premerger Notification Requirements
  Business Law Alert
  February 15, 2006
• Parker Poe Attorneys Among The Best Lawyers in America
  September 13, 2005
• Dissecting the Purchase Agreement Seminar Features Parker Poe Attorneys
  September 12, 2005
• Parker Poe Attorneys Honored as The Best Lawyers in America and the "Legal Elite" in North Carolina
  February 28, 2005

Events & Speaking Engagements

• Parker Poe Hosts CLE on October 24
  October 24, 2011
  Charlotte, NC
• Dissecting the Purchase Agreement, Co-presenter
  October 2005
  Lorman Education Services

Memberships

• The Trust for Public Land's North Carolina Advisory Council
  Member, (Chairman, 2001-2005)
• North Carolina Bar Association
  Business Law Section Council Member, 2005-2009
• North Carolina Commission on Business Laws and the Economy
  Member, 2002-2005