Albert Bart is a general corporate and commercial transactions attorney with over 25 years of law firm and in-house experience.
At Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison, Albert represents businesses, private equity firms, and individual investors in a wide-array of corporate and transactional matters, including providing counsel on business and operational matters, mergers and acquisitions, and equity and debt financings. He works in a variety of industries with both buyers and sellers, borrowers and lenders, corporate management teams and significant stockholders. Albert also has significant experience working with senior executives on employment and executive compensation matters. He serves as a member of the firm’s Management Committee.
As Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel for Ceridian Corporation (the parent of Comdata Network) from 2008 – 2011, Albert was primarily responsible for securities, financing and other commercial transaction matters, as well as corporate governance and compensation and benefit matters.
- In addition to serving as associate general counsel to Ceridian Corporation, a multinational corporation having then nearly 8,000 employees, serving as sole or primary corporate legal counsel to entity clients in various financial, manufacturing, media, real estate investing and development, and service related industries having individual annual revenues ranging from less than $20 million to more than $250 million
- Assisted numerous startup and emerging growth businesses in the e-commerce, financial services, media, real estate investiing and development, and software development and technology spaces, including with business formations, structurings and financing transactions
- Serving as outside counsel to a national trade association, advising on general operational matters and antitrust and competition issues
- Acting as lead acquisition counsel to a series of buyers in the e-commerce, health and wellness, hospitality, media, manufacturing, mining, real estate, software development, human resources outsourcing and electronic payments industries
- Representing sellers in business dispositions in the e-commerce, financial and accounting services, food and beverage, health care and insurance related services, hospitality, human resources outsourcing, electronic payments, construction, manufacturing, retail, asset management and transportation industries
- Advising various strategic and financial investors/partners in the acquisition or restructuring of equity and debt positions and in the formation and implementation of various strategic ventures and business partnerships
- Representing multiple publicly traded companies (or their specific business units) in their sale to private equity investors
- Advising corporate clients on data privacy and security, fraud assessment and control matters, website design and development issues, and technology outsourcing arrangements
- Assisting publicly traded and large privately held companies in the structuring and maintenance of various subsidiary operations throughout the United States and advising boards of directors with respect to senior management employment and compensation issues and the consideration of financing, merger and acquisition, and other strategic items
- Representing senior executives and managers in connection with their employment and compensation arrangements and/or separation of employment and post-separation business activities
EDUCATION
- University of Tennessee College of Law, J.D. cum laude
- Vanderbilt University, B.A.
BAR ADMISSIONS
- Tennessee
- Best Lawyers in America, Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law (2019 – present)
- AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
- Chambers USA, Corporate/Mergers and Acquisitions (2016, 2018, 2019, 2023 – 2024)
- Nashville Business Journal “Best of the Bar”, Corporate and Securities (2007)
- Super Lawyers “Rising Star” (2008)
- Member, Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations
- Member, Association of Corporate Counsel
- Guest lecturer and presenter on corporate, M&A and securities law topics at various graduate school programs and CLE seminars
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