SUMMARY
Whalen Kuller has extensive experience representing corporate clients on acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures, private equity and venture capital, public offerings and private placements of debt and equity capital. He also advises clients on the organization and formation of business entities, corporate governance, financing and the negotiation and preparation of agreements and contracts including employment, shareholder, licensing and supply and distribution agreements.
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
- Represents publicly traded and privately held companies on acquisitions and divestitures, recapitalizations and technology licensing
- Represents community banks and bank holding companies on organization and formation, restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings and other regulatory matters
PUBLICATIONS & RECOGNITION
- Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent: Top rated lawyer in Corporate Law, Banking Law and Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures
- Georgia Bar Journal, Going Private Through Stock Reclassification (June 2010)
- Co-presenter at the Georgia Association of Medical Equipment Suppliers (GAMES), An Overview of a Healthcare Transaction (May 2014)
- Webinar co-presenter, Special Purpose Entities in Real Estate Transactions: Structuring and Documentation (January 2017)
- Moderated Hartman Simons and Vinings Bank panel discussion, Community Banking and Commercial Real Estate Development Lending (July 2017)
- Value Retail News Guest Column, Top 5 Ways The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act May Affect The Outlet Center Business (2018)
- Authored New Centralized Partnership Audit Regime Takes Effect
- Authored Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Provides Significant Tax Changes
- Co-authored The End of Libor
PRACTICE AREAS
Corporate & Business Entities
Finance & Investment
EDUCATION
- University of Alabama, LLM, magna cum laude 2019
- University of Florida, JD, cum laude 2003
- University of Florida, MBA 2002
- University of Florida, BSBA 2000
MEMBERSHIPS
- State Bar of Georgia
- Community Bankers Association of Georgia
- Georgia Association of Business Brokers