Working across a broad range of industries of all sizes, Greg has represented a variety of business entities, including closely held and family businesses, large and small public companies, and nonprofit entities throughout his over 40 years of practice. He has extensive experience in securities matters, including advising clients on initial public offerings and ongoing disclosure obligations.
Greg has represented clients in complex transactions, including:
- Securities regulation and corporate governance
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Financing transactions
- Contract negotiations and dispute resolutions
- Strategic planning
- Legal compliance and internal investigations
- General corporate matters
Greg enjoys engaging with and teaching other lawyers and law students and has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and as a member of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee. He is a principal contributor to The Florida Bar Corporate Practice Manual and the Chair of the annual Federal Securities Institute. Greg also served as the Chair of the American Bar Association’s Middle Market and Small Business Committee and The Florida Bar's Business Law Section.
Education
J.D., with honors, George Washington University, 1975
B.A., cum laude, Dartmouth College, 1972
Professional Associations
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee, Member and Secretary
- The Florida Bar, Member, Executive Committee and Chair – Long Range Planning Committee, Executive Council, Past Chair – Business Law Section
- American Bar Association: Middle Market and Small Business Committee, Business Law Section, past Chair; Task Force on Private Placement Brokers (past Co-Chair); Subcommittee on Small Business Issuers (past Chair) of the Federal Regulation of Securities Committee
- Securities and Exchange Commission, Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Businesses, Member
- The Florida Orchestra, Chair, Board of Directors and Executive Committee
- Visit Tampa Bay, Advisory Board; past Chair
- Tampa Bay Businesses for Culture and the Arts, Inc., Board of Directors, Executive Committee, past Chair
- Leadership Tampa Alumni of the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce, Member and past Chair
- Dartmouth Club of Tampa, Inc., Board of Directors, past President
- Dartmouth College Alumni Council, past Council member
- University Club of Tampa, past President and Board of Directors
- Tampa Yacht and Country Club, past Treasurer and Board of Directors
- Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin, Board of Directors
Honors
- Best Lawyers in America, 2001-2024
- Best Lawyers, “Tampa Mergers and Acquisitions Law Lawyer of the Year,” 2018, 2024
- Best Lawyers, “Tampa Corporate Compliance Law Lawyer of the Year,” 2017, 2019, 2023
- Best Lawyers, “Tampa Corporate Law Lawyer of the Year,” 2014, 2016, 2021
- Best Lawyers, “Tampa Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law Lawyer of the Year,” 2012, 2015, 2020
- Best Lawyers, “Tampa Securities / Capital Markets Law Lawyer of the Year,” 2013
- Chambers USA, Corporate/M&A & Private Equity (Florida), 2003-2024
- “Top 100” Lawyer and Florida Super Lawyers by Super Lawyers magazine, 2006-2015, 2017-2024
- Florida Legal Elite, 2004-2021, Florida Trend magazine (top 1.6 percent of Florida lawyers) and Legal Elite Hall of Fame
- 500 Most Influential Executives in Tampa by Florida Trend Magazine, 2019
- Tampa Bay’s Best Lawyers, 2008-2011
- Tampa Top Lawyers, Corporate Governance Law, Tampa Magazine, 2019
- 20 Most Influential Lawyers in Tampa Bay 2005, Tampa Bay Business Journal
- Who’s Who Legal: M&A and Governance 2015
Representative Matters
- $530 million acquisition of a global manufacturing company headquartered in Italy
- $253 million underwritten public equity offering on behalf of the issuer
- Sale of the largest craft brewery in Florida on behalf of the owners
- Sale of a privately held health care company and, following the sale, numerous acquisition transactions by the company on behalf of the new private equity owner
- Representation of the executive management team of one of the largest providers of sales, benefits administration, and other technology solutions to the insurance and managed care industries in the sale of the company to a global, Asia-based purchaser