Andrew Garner focuses his practice on business, taxation, finance, estate planning and estate administration law. As part of his business practice, he helps a wide range of clients, including buyers and sellers, navigate mergers and acquisitions through asset purchase transactions, equity purchase transactions, mergers and reorganizations. He also regularly negotiates and drafts contracts for a variety of commercial transactions, including vendor and supplier agreements, distribution and manufacturing agreements, licensing agreements, leases for real and personal property, and employment and independent contractor agreements.
Insight gained from experience counseling companies throughout the business life cycle enables Andrew to serve emerging businesses as well, including advising on choice of entity decisions and capitalization transactions.
Experience
- Representation of both purchasers and sellers in negotiating and drafting documents for numerous corporate acquisition transactions.
- Representation of a multi-national corporation in the reorganization of the legal entities used to conduct its Mississippi manufacturing operations.
- Representation of numerous local, regional and national companies in applying for and obtaining exemptions from Mississippi ad valorem taxation.
- Representation of start-up corporation with international operations in designing and implementing its equity structure.
- Representation of companies in structuring and drafting documents for the admission of new equity owners.