Overview
Sims Rhyne is a partner in the firm's Corporate and Tax practice group. His practice focuses on all aspects of corporate law, including mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, corporate formations and reorganizations, corporate governance, contract law, and financing transactions (including angel investments, private placements, and venture capital investments).
Sims has represented clients in various industries including construction, construction materials, healthcare, information technology, investment management, manufacturing, retail, professional service, and real estate development.
Experience
- Represented an Alabama-based medical case management services provider in its sale to a private equity investment firm.
- Represented a private equity firm in acquiring a franchisee of fast, casual wing restaurants.
- Represented a forestry, golf, and sports turf and tractor dealership in acquiring a competing equipment dealership.
- Represented a private equity firm in acquiring a franchisor of a fast, casual taco restaurant.
- Represented a private equity firm, along with its portfolio company, on acquiring the leading franchisee of fitness studios specializing in science-backed, group fitness classes.
- Represented a private equity firm in acquiring a drive-up refillable water station with close to 1300 locations nationwide.
- Represented a private equity firm investing in robotic kiosks that handle key duplications, locksmith services, and an app for copying keys inside over 6,000 store locations.
- Represented a portfolio company of a private equity firm in acquiring various franchises of a fitness studio specializing in science-backed group fitness classes.
- Represented a private equity firm in investing in a breakfast and brunch restaurant located in 10 states across the U.S.
- Represented a private equity firm investing in a one-stop telehealth service for men’s care and wellness.
- Represented private equity firm in acquiring a fast-casual franchisor specializing in chicken salad preparations served by the scoop, sandwich, or bowl and operating in 16 states.
- Represented a private equity firm in acquiring a leading franchisee and area representative of fitness studios that operates 12 studios and oversees an additional eight in the Houston area.
- Represented a private equity firm in its investment in a Phoenix-based hospitality group to support the growth of one of the group’s restaurant brands.
- Represented a portfolio company of a private equity firm that provides educational classroom services and solutions to the global early childhood education market in its acquisition of a science supplies and toys online retailer.
- Represented a portfolio company of a private equity firm that provides educational classroom services and solutions to the global early childhood education market in its acquisition of a leading early childhood education solutions provider.
Honors & Recognitions
- Listed in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America®: Corporate Law since 2022; Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law since 2022; Mergers and Acquisitions Law since 2022
- Cordell Hull Speakers Forum, Chair (2011-2012)
- Judge Abraham Caruthers Fellow (2010-2011)
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- American Bar Association
- Alabama State Bar Association
- Birmingham Bar Association
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