Lawyer Bio : Gregory M. Chabon

Gregory M. Chabon

"Greg"

Greensboro

Greg provides counsel and advice to predominately privately-held businesses on a variety of transactional, corporate and commercial matters. His practice is focused on providing creative and efficient real-world solutions to clients’ business issues and opportunities in the following principal areas:

  • Negotiating, documenting and closing complex business transactions, including strategic alliances and business acquisitions, mergers and divestitures;
  • Structuring, negotiating and documenting technology licensing and supply arrangements in domestic and foreign markets, including high technology and internet-based businesses;
  • Structuring and documenting capital raising and debt/equity investments for emerging companies; and
  • Providing general business counsel to mid-market companies.

Greg has completed transactions ranging from $2mm to over $100mm in value, representing clients engaged in the design, manufacture, sourcing, marketing or distribution of software and technology services, textiles, sporting goods, specialty chemicals/industrial products, health care services and pharmaceutical products. Greg’s hands-on technical background provides a unique experience base in dealing with technology related or dependent companies. Prior to practicing law, Greg spent eleven years as an engineer involved in the development of tactical missile systems for the U.S. Armed Forces, and dealt with getting beyond state-of-the-art technology from the drawing board into production. This experience has proven valuable in structuring and negotiating licensing transactions for patented products and trade secrets in the furniture, software, specialty textiles and pharmaceutical hardware industries.

Representative Transactions

  • Advising and completing asset purchase and sale transactions for, and providing general counsel to, a global market leader in industrial foams technology;
  • Negotiating and completing pharmaceutical supply and joint venture arrangements, both domestic and international, for a leading producer of patented or proprietary encapsulated pharmaceutical and nutritional products;
  • Representing a professional services and software developer in venture capital financings, merger transactions, securities compliance and providing general counsel;
  • Representing a large physician practice in formation, corporate governance, general counsel, and health care matters.

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Professional Activities

Admitted to bar: 1996, NC.

Greg is a member of the following bar organizations:
American Bar Association - Business Law Section and Intellectual Property Section.
North Carolina Bar Association - Business Law Section and Intellectual Property Section.

Civic Activities

Greg has been active in business and charitable groups throughout his career, including with groups like Action Greensboro, Leadership Greensboro, service on the Board of Directors of groups like the Piedmont Triad Entrepreneurial Network, Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship, and fundraising for charities like The United Arts Council and The United Way, as well as pro bono groups like the North Carolina Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.

Education

Greg graduated from Clemson University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1981. While working with United Technologies Corporation, he earned his Masters in Business Administration at night from the University of San Diego, and earned his Law Degree, with high honors, from the Florida State University College of Law in 1996.

Prior Legal Experience

2002 - Present. Since June 2002, Greg has practiced with Womble Carlyle, first as Of Counsel then as a Member. Greg is a member of the Firm’s Recruiting Committee and the Supply Chain/Logistics Task Force.

1996 - 2002. Greg was an associate then Member of Schell Bray Aycock Abel & Livingston P.L.L.C., a corporate law boutique, where he advised clients on merger and acquisition transactions and was the primary intellectual property attorney.

Prior Business Experience

1982 - 1993. Greg spent eleven years as an engineer developing tactical missile systems for the U.S. Armed Forces, first working for the U.S. Air Force in a civil service capacity, then as a consultant to the commercial defense industry, and finally seven years with United Technologies Corporation. During this time, Greg worked closely with design and manufacturing engineers, as well as industry executives, analyzing, developing and presenting ways to improve design and producibility of systems using beyond state-of-the-art technology and materials. Greg also managed significant program change orders and contract negotiations for classified programs valued in excess of $500 million. In 1993, Greg left the defense industry to pursue his law degree.