Press Release

 

See video of Travis being congratulated by Sandy Smith.

ATLANTA—Womble Carlyle attorney Travis T. Townsend is the 2009 winner of the Rising Star Award, presented by the Atlanta Urban League. The Rising Star Award is presented annually by the Atlanta Urban League and Heineken to a young professional for community service and outstanding leadership.
 

Travis serves as a Big Brother through Big Brothers Big Sisters of Atlanta and is the Chairperson of the Personal and Professional Development Committee of the Atlanta Urban League Young Professionals.  Travis is the Vice President and Board member of M.E.N.S. Wear, Inc., a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide life skills and employment training to urban men and male youths.  He also provides pro bono work for the Georgia Innocence Project.

“This is a tremendous honor, and very much deserved,” said John F. Sandy Smith, senior Member in Womble Carlyle’s Atlanta Corporate and Securities practice. “In addition to being an outstanding attorney, Travis has an exemplary commitment to public service. Travis is a self-starter and consistently initiates activities to help others. We are very proud of him.”

Travis will receive his award on Saturday, November 14^th at the Atlanta Urban League Equal Opportunity Day Dinner & Gala. The event takes place at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis.

At the firm, Travis is a Corporate and Securities attorney who helps companies in organizing, financing and growing businesses; executing mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and reorganizations; and preparing business relationship arrangements such as distribution agreements, employment agreements, consulting agreements, settlement agreements, and noncompetition and nondisclosure agreements.  His clients include entrepreneurs and blue chip companies and businesses in the pharmaceutical, manufacturing, retail and telecommunications industries.

Travis is a graduate of the University of Michigan and University of Michigan School of Law.

 

A full-service business law firm, Womble Carlyle ranks among AmLaw’s 100 leading firms in the country and is a top law firm for companies doing business in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic states. The firm is a recipient of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund Corporate Leadership Award, making Womble Carlyle the first law firm ever to receive the highest honor given to a business organization in recognition of its support of the Fund and its 45 member educational institutions.

 

Founded in 1876, Womble Carlyle operates in six states and the District of Columbia with nearly 550 attorneys in eleven offices located in Atlanta, GA; Greenville, SC; Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, Research Triangle Park, and Winston-Salem, NC; Washington, DC; Tysons Corner, VA; Wilmington, DE; and Baltimore, MD. Womble Carlyle is located in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions, and serves clients nationally and globally.