Wade advises clients on complex business transactions.
These include mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, leveraged buyouts of public and private companies, venture capital and growth equity investments, recapitalizations, debt and equity restructurings and workouts, private equity and mezzanine fund formations, and executive compensation and equity incentive arrangements. His clients include private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, which he represents in virtually all aspects of their business.
Wade serves as lead counsel in a wide variety of transactions, including change-in-control transactions involving stand-alone and integrated businesses of private and public companies, minority investments in private and public companies, cash and leveraged transactions, stock-for-stock mergers, going-private transactions, and senior and mezzanine debt financings. His transactions have ranged in value from several million dollars to more than $1 billion, been both domestic and cross-border, and across a wide array of industries, including regulated industries such as healthcare and financial services. He also regularly represents portfolio companies of private equity clients in all of their corporate needs, including acquisitions, financings, management incentive arrangements and general corporate counseling.
He connects entrepreneurs with investors and advises start-up companies in obtaining and negotiating angel and venture capital investments. In addition, Wade handles real estate matters, mostly centered on venture investments in, and the sale of, pooled assets in the hotel and apartment sectors.
He currently serves on Eversheds Sutherland's US Executive Committee.
- Represented Artera Services subsidiary, Volt Power, LLC, in its acquisition of DD Grid, LLC and One Shot Reliability, LLC.
- Represented DC Blox Inc., a data center provider in the southeast United States, in connection with its acquisition of a dark fiber route between Atlanta, Georgia and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
- Represented Artera Services, LLC in connection with its acquisition, through its operating subsidiary Miller Pipeline, LLC, of 1127 Construction, Inc. and Associated Drilling Company.
- Represented Miller Pipeline, LLC, a subsidiary of Artera Services, LLC, in its acquisition of K.R. Swerdfeger Construction, LLC, a pipeline and utility construction company based in Pueblo, Colorado.
- Represented Rhubarb LLC in its purchase of substantially all of the assets of Access Food & Beverage, Inc., which operates a full-service catering business in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
- Follow the Money – Where is InsurTech VC Moving, March 7, 2022, InsurTech NY 2022 Spring Conference
- Recognized by The Legal 500 United States in the area of mergers and acquisitions: middle-market (2015-2018, 2020-2023)
- Recognized as “Lawyer of the Year” by The Best Lawyers in America in the area of leveraged buyouts and private equity law (2022, 2024)
- Named to The Best Lawyers in America in the areas of leveraged buyouts (2007-2024), private equity law (2007-2011, 2013-2024) and venture capital law (2007-2024)
- Recognized by Chambers USA: Guide to Leading Business Lawyers in the areas of corporate mergers and acquisitions (2015-2023)
- Named among the elite “Leading Lawyers” list by The Legal 500 United States in the area of mergers and acquisitions: middle-market (2015-2021)
- Inductee, The Legal 500 "Hall of Fame" (Since 2018)
- Named among the “Legal Elite” by Georgia Trend magazine (2006)
- Member, Corporate and Real Estate Sections, American Bar Association
- Member, Corporate, Real Estate and Technology Sections, State Bar of Georgia
- Member, Board of Directors, Junior Achievement
- Member, Board of Directors, Reach For Excellence
- Member, Board of Visitors, University of Georgia
- Georgia
- J.D., Emory University School of Law
- B.A., University of Georgia
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