Overview

Tim is the Chair of Maynard Nexsen’s Public Company Advisory Group. He has more than twenty years of experience advising companies, boards of directors, and executives on securities, transactional, corporate finance, corporate governance, and other corporate-related matters.

With a focus on securities law, Tim serves as a trusted advisor to both public and private companies from a wide range of industries, including banking and financial services, healthcare, technology, manufacturing, insurance, retail, and energy and natural resources. He has extensive experience in public and private securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic business planning. He regularly counsels new and established public companies regarding their Exchange Act reporting and disclosure obligations, corporate governance responsibilities, and other issues related to their public company status, including compliance with the Dodd-Frank Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and NYSE and Nasdaq listing standards.

Tim serves as an Advisory Board Member of the Society of Corporate Governance, Southeastern Chapter. Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business has distinguished Tim as a "Leading Corporate Attorney" every year since 2013, and he was recently recognized by Best Lawyers® as the 2025 "Lawyer of the Year" in the area of Securities Regulation for the Birmingham market. He is consistently listed in the Best Lawyers in America® in the areas of Securities/Capital Markets Law, Corporate Law, and Securities Regulation Law.

Community & Professional

  • Advisory Board Member, Society of Corporate Governance – Southeastern Chapter
  • Vice-Chair of Corporate Counseling and Litigation Subcommittee within the ABA Business Law Section
  • American Bar Association, Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities, Committee on Corporate Governance, Committee on Negotiated Acquisitions
  • Thomson Reuters Business Law Partner Advisory Board
  • Alabama State Bar Association
  • Maryland State Bar Association
  • The District of Columbia Bar
  • Birmingham Bar Association

Experience

  • Represented a Nasdaq-listed healthcare company in two underwritten secondary offerings of over $400 million in common stock
  • Represented a NYSE-listed healthcare company in an A/B exchange offer of an aggregate of $700 million in aggregate principal amount of senior notes
  • Represented National Commerce Corporation, a registered bank holding company, in connection with an underwritten initial public offering of its common stock valued at approximately $38 million and listing on the NASDAQ Global Select Market
  • Represented a Nasdaq-listed healthcare company in a Rule 144A offering of $250 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes
  • Represented Protective Life Corporation in underwritten public offering of $400 million aggregate principal amount of subordinated debentures
  • Represented Torchmark Corporation in underwritten public offerings of $125 million in junior subordinated debentures and $300 million in senior notes
  • Represented General Chemical in its acquisition of Southern Water Consultants
  • Represented Protective Life Corporation in underwritten public offering of $800 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes
  • Represented Torchmark Corporation in underwritten public offering of $300 million in senior notes
  • Represented Protective Life Corporation, a NYSE listed company, in an underwritten public offering of 15,525,000 shares of common stock
  • Represented Alabama National BanCorporation, a Nasdaq listed bank holding company, in its sale to Royal Bank of Canada in a transaction valued at approximately $1.6 billion
  • Represented Source Medical Solutions, Inc. in its acquisition of Serbin Surgery Center Billing
  • Represented Torchmark Corporation, a NYSE listed insurance holding company, in underwritten public offerings of $120 million in trust preferred securities and $250 million in senior notes from a universal shelf registration statement
  • Represented Alabama National BanCorporation, a publicly owned bank holding company, in an underwritten, follow-on public offering of approximately $53 million of common stock
  • Represented a privately owned Top 100 healthcare IT company (as ranked by Healthcare Informatics in 2005) in financing transactions, including the private placement of $16 million of preferred stock in a rights offering led by a private equity fund
  • Represented the acquirer in a stock-for-stock merger of two publicly traded companies involving a registered exchange offer on Form S-4 of securities valued at over $100 million
  • Represented a multinational publicly-traded owner of hotel properties in its underwritten offering of $450 million of high yield debt pursuant to Rule 144A and subsequent Exxon Capital exchange offer
  • Represented an offshore oil and gas services company listed on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange in a going private transaction
  • Represented a publicly-held communications technology company in several private investment in public equity (“PIPE”) financings involving the private placement of preferred stock and other convertible securities and the subsequent registration for resale to the public of the underlying common stock
  • Represented a de novo state chartered bank in organization in connection with a $10 million state-registered public offering of equity securities
  • Negotiated an international joint venture between two electronics repair and maintenance service providers in connection with the offering of avionics repair and support services to certain European air forces

Recognitions

Recognition

  • Chambers USA: Leading Individual in the area of Corporate Law (2013-present)
  • The Best Lawyers in America© for Securities Regulation Law (2014-present), Securities/Capital Markets Law (2016-present), and Corporate Law (2016-present)
  • Best Lawyers® "Lawyer of the Year" for Securities/Capital Markets Law (2019, 2021), Securities Regulation (2025)
  • Mid South Super Lawyers for Securities & Corporate Finance (2014-present)
  • Who's Who Legal Corporate: Merger & Acquisition; Corporate Governance (2018-Present)

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Admissions

  • State Bar: Alabama, Washington, DC, Maryland
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