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Catherine W. Grow

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  • Roundabout Plaza
    1600 Division Street
    Suite 700
    Nashville, TN 37203
P: 615.252.2339
F: 615.252.6339
Secretary:
P: 615.252.3592

Catherine W. Grow

Counsel
Catherine focuses her practice primarily on business entity transactional work involving mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. She also has a large amount of experience in handling general corporate matters and contract negotiation. Catherine represents and advocates the interests of officers and in-house counsel for large, nationally recognized corporations as well as the interests of small business entrepreneurs. She also has experience in dealing with governmental regulators on a federal, state and local level.

Catherine focuses her practice primarily on business entity transactional work involving mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. She also has a large amount of experience in handling general corporate matters and contract negotiation. Catherine represents and advocates the interests of officers and in-house counsel for large, nationally recognized corporations as well as the interests of small business entrepreneurs. She also has experience in dealing with governmental regulators on a federal, state and local level.

Catherine spent most of her first years at the Firm advising small businesses with respect to general business matters and business formation. She engaged in transactional work involving various structures and types of businesses. Catherine became involved in the Firm’s environmental practice group, and became experienced in advising clients with respect to identifying environmental issues relating to the operation of their businesses.

After spending several years with the Firm following law school, Catherine spent some time as in-house as legal counsel for HCA, Inc. There she completed hospital transactions both domestically and internationally and was charged with not only being responsible for working with development personnel in negotiating the transaction but was also responsible for coordinating the various departments of the company to orchestrate the acquisition or disposition of hospitals and transition issues association with the same. She is skilled at advising business personnel and communicating effectively with officers of large corporation.

After returning to private practice at the Firm in 2006, Catherine continues to represent large healthcare companies but also advises mid-sized companies and entrepreneurs with respect to transactional matters, business formation and contractual negotiation.

Experience

Catherine handles acquisitions, dispositions, joint venture and business formations across the country. She has completed numerous transactions involving businesses valued at up to $2 billion. In her transactional work, she has gained experience not only in negotiating definitive agreements governing the terms of transactions but also has experience in negotiating ancillary agreements independent of the definitive agreement, such as employee leasing agreements, management agreements, transition agreements, equipment leases and supplier contracts. Catherine is skilled in focusing business personnel on due diligence considerations and business transition issues that play a role in the consideration of whether to buy or sell a business and the price to be paid (or received) in connection with the same. More recently, Catherine’s practice has involved advising companies in the health care industry.

Distinctions

  • Rule 31 Mediator, Commission on ADR for State of Tennessee

Memberships and Affiliations

  • Make a Wish Foundation of Middle Tennessee
  • Tennessee Donor Services
  • Young Leaders Council (1991 graduate)
  • Nashville’s Agenda
  • Buddies of Nashville (Board of Directors, 1992)
  • Nashville Sports Council (1993)

You May Not Know

Catherine loves to fly airplanes. She has been working on her pilot’s license. Her alternate dream career would involve flying lifeflight or rescue helicopters. Catherine enjoys painting abstract art and engages in that therapeutic activity when ever she has the opportunity.