Overview

Beth Atkins, having retired from full-time practice, provides consulting services to our attorneys at their request. With a focus on complex business and commercial property transactions, Beth has over thirty-five years of experience in handling a wide range of business matters. Her mergers and acquisitions experience included companies of all sizes, from local small business transactions, to mergers of private companies into large international public companies. She established long term relationships with business clients from formation to dissolution, and in handling their varied organizational and contract matters and business financing arrangements.

Experience

Her business lending experience included representation of both lenders and borrowers. The mix of business representation with commercial loan practice resulted in her handling all types of financing, from asset based, real estate, and construction lending for large projects, to lending syndicates and mezzanine financing. Beth’s practice also includes varied commercial property transactions, and involves both developers and investors, as well as matters ranging from commercial leases to subdivision and condominium development covenants. Although she often handles single transactions for clients, many have come to appreciate her not just as counsel for specific events, but as a trusted advisor for their businesses.

Representative Cases

Served as counsel for private tech company, Expion, LLC, in complex equity sale to Sysomos, LP, a Canadian limited partnership involving establishment of Canadian ULC for ownership of partnership unit consideration.
Experienced in closing acquisitions/sales of various professional practices including dental, veterinarian, medical and engineering; as well as initial organization of same.
Assisted borrowers with asset based lending from lending syndicates in amounts up to $190,000,000.
Represented developers in purchase of property from a bankruptcy estate, obtaining a zoning ordinance language change to permit desired use of property, and establishment of the Bask condominium hotel in Morehead City, North Carolina, including drafting Declaration of Condominium and agreements with the management company.
Handled many mergers and acquisitions including negotiating purchase and sale agreements, overseeing complex due diligence responses and requests, and integration matters in various industries and businesses of all sizes for both sellers and buyers.
Served as counsel for borrowers in equity and/or mezzanine financing from investment banks using private equity funds.
Represented several domestic businesses in joint ventures with entities from other countries.
Assisted multiple borrowers with SBA guaranteed financing.

Education and Membership

Beth earned her B.S. from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her J.D. from University of Virginia School of Law. Beth is a member of North Carolina State Bar and was admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Her professional and academic honors include: Martindale Hubble AV rating; SuperLawyers North Carolina; and Business North Carolina’s Legal Elite.