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Denson N. Franklin III

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Denson N. Franklin III

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D.'s primary areas of practice include corporate counsel, mergers and acquisitions, finance transaction and federal and state securities matters. He represents a variety of clients ranging from established companies with global operations to early stage businesses.

D. advises companies on a broad range of issues affecting their business, including clients in the information services, construction and engineering, distribution and service, construction materials, transportation, technology and manufacturing industries. He has assisted a number of clients in private and public offerings of debt and equity securities, including initial public offerings, and regularly counsels companies and their boards with respect to corporate governance and compliance issues.

D. is listed in Best Lawyers in the areas of Corporate Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law and Mergers & Acquisitions Law. He is also recognized in Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, in the area of Corporate law.

Experience

D. counsels a number of family owned businesses, the ownership of which spans multiple generations. He has significant experience advising on issues that are particular to family owned businesses, such as ownership and control transfers within the family, estate planning and compensation of family and non-family executives. D. teams with the firm’s Trusts & Estates lawyers on many of these engagements.

D. also advises emerging growth companies in their formation and funding. He has worked with a number of companies from inception through venture capital funding and initial public offering or sale.

D. is regularly advises clients with respect to their overseas operations and acquisitions outside the United States. Through his involvement in ALFA International, a global network of leading law firms, he has developed relationships with lawyers throughout the world.

Distinctions

  • Listed in The Best Lawyers in America®
    • Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), 2013
    • Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law, 2013
    • Corporate Compliance Law, 2013
    • Corporate Governance Law, 2013
    • Corporate Law, 2006-2013
    • Corporate. Mergers & Acquisitions, and Securities Law, 2005-2006
    • Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, 2008-2013
    • Mergers & Acquisitions Law, 2007-2013
    • "Lawyer of the Year," Birmingham
      • Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), 2013
      • Mergers & Acquisitions Law, 2011
  • Listed in Chambers USA, Corporate/Commercial, 2009-2012
        • Memberships and Affiliations

          • Rotary Club of Birmingham, Member
          • Birmingham-Southern College, Board of Trustees, Secretary
          • United Way of Central Alabama, Tocqueville Society

          You May Not Know

          When away from the office, D. is likely doing something fun with his family. His wife runs marathons, he sticks to 5Ks.