Porter focuses his practice on M&A, securities, and other corporate matters.
While earning his JD at the University of Tennessee College of Law, Porter served as research editor for the Tennessee Law Review, a member of the Executive Board of the Student Bar Association and a member of the LawMeets Transactional Moot Court Team and received CALI Awards for business associations, securities regulation, and contract drafting. He was also the recipient of the Concentration in Business Transactions Award, which recognizes the top student in the transactions concentration.
Experience
- Representation of Essentra plc (LSE: ESNT), a leading global provider of essential components and solutions, as U.S. counsel, in the £312 million sale of its packaging business to Mayr-Melnhof Group, an Austria-based leading producer of carton board and folding cartons.
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The University of Tennessee College of LawJD
Summa Cum Laude, Order of the Coif, Research Editor, The Tennessee Law Review
2015 - The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillBAHistory and Political Science2009
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Selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, Corporate Law, 2021-2024; Securities; Capital Markets Law, 2024
Named to “Legal Elite,” Young Guns (Lawyers Under 40), Business North Carolina, 2020, 2021, 2023
Selected for inclusion into the North Carolina Pro Bono Honor Society, 2020, 2021
- Author, Director Fiduciary Duties After In re Nine West LBO Securities Litigation, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, March 10, 2021
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- Speaker, "Update on Exhibit hyperlinks and HTML format", SEC Compliance and Disclosure Update, McGuireWoods LLP SEC Practice Complimentary Webinar Series, September 26, 2017
- Speaker, SEC Compliance and Disclosure Update, McGuireWoods LLP SEC Practice Complimentary Webinar Series, April 18, 2017