Lawyer Bio : Gene A. Jones, Jr.

Mr. Jones is a Member of Womble Carlyle's Corporate and Securities Practice Group and has overa decade of extensive experience representing public and private companies in a wide variety of strategic transactions ranging in size to over $500 million. His practice is concentrated in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate spin-offs and divestitures, private equity fund formation and syndication, private securities offerings and investments, venture capital, joint ventures and strategic partnering, corporate governance and general corporate law. Mr. Jones's industry experience includes financial services, software, information technology, life sciences, communications, electronics, building products, convenience store, energy, NC electric membership corporations, distribution and manufacturing.

Gene was recognized in Business North Carolina's Legal Elite in 2006 and 2011.

Representative Experience

• Represented publicly-traded pharmaceutical company in sale of products division to international competitor
• Represented large, privately held international food service equipment manufacturer in acquisition of U.S.-based competitor
• Represented large, privately-held international integrated metal castings company with operations in the United States and India in sale to private equity fund
• Represented large, private equity-sponsored steel products company with operations in the United States, Canada and Europe in sale to international competitor
• Represented several private equity funds in fund formation, fund raising and governance matters
• Negotiation of numerous public pension fund investments in national and international private equity funds
• Acquisitions and divestitures for regulated electric membership corporations
• Acquisition of strategic network security products from publicly-held corporation
• Acquisitions of wireless communications companies for prominent international corporation
• Sale of large North Carolina-based real estate brokerage firm to publicly-held national real estate brokerage firm
• Numerous successful private placements of equity and debt securities for start-up and emerging technology companies
• Sale of large carpet manufacturing company to national concern
• Acquisition of strategic Australian-based pharmaceutical plant assets for public pharmaceutical company
• Sales of several large privately-held convenience store chains to public convenience store operator
• Acquisitions of several software/IT companies and products
• Numerous acquisitions and divestitures in the building products, energy, engineering, furniture, real estate, portable storage and textile industries

• Pharmaceutical/Life Sciences
• Software/IT
• Industrial/Manufacturing
• Convenience Store Chains
• Building Products
• Real Estate Brokerage
• Military/Defense Contractors