Robert B. Harwell
Member
Bo Harwell joined Brunini in its Commercial Department in 2005. His practice is focused primarily on general corporate work, mergers and acquisitions and commercial real estate transactions.
His general transactional practice involves assisting clients in a variety of corporate transactions, including drafting, negotiating and reviewing corporate contracts and other transactional documents, forming entities and preparing corporate governance documents. His general transactional practice focuses on clients in the agriculture, restaurant, health care and telecommunications industries.
His practice also involves representing clients in merger and acquisition transactions, which includes assisting clients in structuring, negotiating, documenting and closing transactions involving mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, and representing clients in commercial real estate matters, including purchases and sales of real property, leasing and financing transactions, and title related matters.
Representative Matters
- Served as general counsel to a multi-national agricultural chemical company based in Alabama.
- Represented an agricultural chemical company in multi-step membership interest purchase transaction with a publicly traded Israeli company.
- Represented an Italian machinery parts distributor and its American subsidiary in a joint venture with a machinery retailer with locations throughout the United States.
- Represented a real estate investment group in the acquisition of property, construction and financing of apartment complexes across Mississippi.
Speeches & Publications
- "Current Topics in Real Estate Financing" University of Mississippi Center for Continuing Legal Education: Current Trends in Real Estate Seminar, July , 2007, Tunica, MS
- "Modern Derogations to Common-Law Cotenancy" ABA Real Property, Trust and Estate Section: Fall Meeting, September 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia
Community & Professional Activities
- Mississippi Bar
- ABA Young Lawyers Division - Real Property Committee, Chairman