R. Culver Schmid

Represented a pet product supplier in acquisitions of several of its distributors. The transactions included purchase of all the outstanding stock of the seller, assignment of numerous commercial leases and due diligence review of corporate assets.

Advised Tennessee political candidates on election law and campaign finance, including serving as legal counsel for state-wide gubernatorial campaign committee, in addition to helping convicted felons restore their voting rights.

Represented a developer in connection with the acquisition, development and sale of a hotel project involving the purchase of a surplus state property office building, which was converted into a boutique hotel with twelve residential condominium units. The project was structured as a commercial condominium in connection with an adjoining hotel and involved substantial real estate issues, including cross easements among the condominium units and the financing of each segment of the project.

Represented the developer in the creation and financing of a theater in downtown Knoxville which included the use of empowerment zone bonds, new market tax credit financing, and tax increment financing.

Provided strategic business advice and developed a political plan for a U.S. publicly traded corporation and its foreign subsidiary in response to foreign government threats to legislate a forced sale of the subsidiary and the precipitated withdrawal of a substantial government fine for political reporting unfavorable to the foreign government.