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.
In addition, Melinda is an Adjunct Professor at Clemson University College of Business and Behavioral Science and an Adjunct Professor at the University of South Carolina Upstate College of Business and Economics. She teaches courses on entrepreneurship and business negotiations.
Representative Matters
- Represented private company in acquisition of specialty chemical business for $70 million, subject to post-closing adjustments
- Represented public company in acquisition of apparel business for $85 million plus earn out payments
- Represented private company in the acquisition of a chemical dye business for $24 million, subject to post-closing adjustments
- Represented private company in the acquisition of a transmission manufacturing business for $6 million
- Representing public company in sale of restaurant franchise by means of a $750 million merger transaction
- Represented public company in $200 million debt financing through a secured credit facility
- Represented private company in $60 million secured debt financing, consisting of $20 million senior term loan and $40 million subordinated revolving loan
Professional Background
| 2002-Present | Wyche, 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
- Greenville Symphony Association, Board Member
- Greenville County First Steps, Board Member
- Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership at Clemson University, Advisory Board Member
- Greenville Small Business Development Corporation, Advisory Board Member
- Leadership South Carolina Class of 2012
- Leadership Greenville Class 34
- Greenville Professional Women's Forum
- Adjunct Professor at Clemson University College of Business and Behavioral Science, and Adjunct Professor at University of South Carolina Upstate College of Business and Economics. Teach courses on entrepreneurship and business negotiations.
- Frequent speaker at Small Business Development Corporation's Jumpstart Your Business workshops
Publications
- Author, Negotiating Commercial Loans for Closely Held Companies When Credit Is Tight, The Practical Lawyer, August 2011
- Author, Representing a Buyer in an Uncertain Economy: Mitigating the Risk, South Carolina Lawyer, March 2009
Awards and Honors
- Best Lawyers in America, 2011
- Liberty Fellow, Class of 2010
- 2009 Greenville Chamber of Commerce Young Professional of the Year