Melinda Davis Lux, Member
Melinda focuses her practice on complex corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and debt financings. She has extensive experience in acquisition and sale transactions and regularly advises buyers and sellers in structuring, negotiating, and documenting business acquisitions and divestitures.
Melinda also regularly represents growing companies in capital raising transactions, such as private placements of securities. In addition, she advises public companies on 34 Act reporting and securities law matters.
Representative Matters:
- Represented private company in acquisition of chemical business for $10 million
- Represented public company in acquisition of apparel business for $85 million plus earn out payments
- Represented private company in acquisition of transmission manufacturing business for $6 million
- Represented public company in sale of yarn spinning business for $10 million
- Representing public company in sale of restaurant chain business by means of a $750 million merger transaction
Professional Background
| 2002-Present | Wyche Burgess Freeman & Parham, P.A. |
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| 1999–2002 | Corporate Associate Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
| 1998–1999 | Law Clerk, Hon. Alexander B. Denson, United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina |
Educational Background
| 2006, M.B.A. | Clemson University (evening program); Beta Gamma Sigma |
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| 1998, J.D. | Yale Law School |
| 1995, B.A. | Wellesley College, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa |
Bar and Court Admissions:
- North Carolina Bar, 1998
- South Carolina Bar, 2003
Representative Community Activities:
- Downtown Symphony Club, Board Member (Chair, 2008–09)
- Greenville County First Steps, Board Member
- Carolina First Center for Excellence, Board Member
- Greenville Chamber of Commerce Small Business Advisory Board
- Leadership Greenville Class 34
- Rotary Club of Greenville
- Greenville Professional Women's Forum
- Former Greenville Symphony Association Board Member
Publications
- Author, Representing a Buyer in an Uncertain Economy: Mitigating the Risk, South Carolina Lawyer, March 2009
Awards and Honors
- Liberty Fellow, Class of 2010
- 2009 Greenville Chamber of Commerce Young Professional of the Year