| Mr.
Cheek joined Bass, Berry & Sims in 1970 and has practiced
primarily as a member of the Corporate and Securities Practice
Area since that date. He represents a number of public and
private companies as well as investment banking firms in
a wide variety of capital raising and merger and acquisition
activities. He also acts as counsel for boards of directors
and board committees on matters relating to corporate governance
and corporate legal compliance. His corporate, merger and
acquisition and securities experience include the following:
- Representation of over 50 public
companies in various SEC and merger and acquisition matters.
- Representation of regional and
national investment banking firms in various equity and
debt public offerings and merger and acquisition transactions.
- Representation of Special Committees
of Boards of Directors of public companies in going private,
internal investigation and derivative litigation matters.
- Representation of public
companies in successful joint ventures, spin offs and
other complex corporate reorganization matters. Representation
of numerous private companies in merger and acquisition
and financing transactions.
- Serves as counsel to the independent directors of mutual
funds.
Mr. Cheek graduated from Duke
University in 1964, Vanderbilt University School of Law
in 1967 and received an LL.M. degree from Harvard University
in 1968. He was a member of the editorial board of the Vanderbilt
Law Review and was elected a member of the Order of the
Coif.
Mr. Cheek served as chair of the
ABA Section of Business Law from 1998 to 1999 and served
as chair of the National ABA Task Force on Corporate Responsibility,
which was formed in 2002. He is a member of the Legal Advisory
Committee of the New York Stock Exchange, having served
as its chair from 1989 to 1992. He served as chair of the
Legal Advisory Board to the National Association of Securities
Dealers from 1995 to 1998 and as chair of the Federal Regulation
of Securities Committee of the American Bar Association
from 1986 to 1991. He also has served for a number of years
as a member of the ABA Corporate Laws Committee, which reviews
and revises the Model Business Corporation Act. He is the
immediate past chair of the Annual Securities Regulation
Institute (San Diego) and a member of the Advisory Planning
Committee of the annual PLI Securities Institute in New
York and of the annual Garrett Corporate and Securities
Law Institute in Chicago. Mr. Cheek is a life member of
the American Law Institute. He has been selected for every
edition of The Best Lawyers in America® since 1987,
has been named one of Tennessee's Leading Business Lawyers
since 2003 by Chambers USA, has been named as one of the
top 100 U.S. corporate governance lawyers by The International
Who's Who of Corporate Governance Lawyers, and has been
named one of the best securities lawyers in the state for
2004-2005 by Business Tennessee magazine. For the past two
years, Mr. Cheek has been listed Best of the Bar in Nashville
Business Journal, a distinction earned exclusively by nominations
from other attorneys.
Mr. Cheek is an adjunct professor
of law at Vanderbilt University School of Law where he teaches
a course in securities and corporate law. Mr. Cheek has
been a member of the faculty of law at Jesus College, Cambridge
University, Cambridge, England, where he taught a course
on Advanced Company Law and Securities Regulation. He received
the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Vanderbilt Law School
in 1994. He has lectured widely at numerous symposiums and
institutes, including those sponsored by the SEC, the NYSE,
ALI-ABA and PLI.
Mr. Cheek serves as chair
of the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority. He has
been elected a Fellow of the Tennessee Bar Foundation and
has served on its board of directors as well as on the board
of trustees of several schools and charitable foundations.
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