Attorneys • Van P. East, III

PRACTICE AREAS: Corporate Law; Commercial Litigation; Commercial Law.

Email: vpeast@whitereasor.com

Telephone: 615-383-3345

Fax: 615-383-5534

Van East has been with the firm since beginning his practice in 1987. His practice focuses primarily on matters involving closely-held business entities, including formations, conversions, mergers, acquisitions and dispositions of those entities, as well as restructuring the ownership and control of those entities.

Mr. East routinely organizes limited liability companies, corporations and partnerships for a variety of business purposes, and he routinely prepares buy-sell, employment and noncompetition agreements for unique circumstances, such as multi-generation family owned businesses and other businesses with owners having divergent goals, expertise and financial strength. On numerous occasions, he has accomplished the resolution of disputes among business owners and the successful and amicable separation and transfer of their ownership interests.

Mr. East’s practice also includes commercial real estate and other business transactions. He has represented clients in purchasing, financing, leasing and selling commercial properties, such as shopping centers, office buildings, restaurant buildings and vacant land. He has also represented clients in purchasing and selling a variety of businesses, such as homebuilding and real estate development businesses, manufacturing businesses and restaurant businesses.

Mr. East is a native Mississippian. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Mississippi (B.A., magna cum laude, 1984) with majors in English and History, and his law degree from Vanderbilt University (J.D., 1987). Mr. East is a member of the Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations, a past President of the Young Lawyers Division of the Nashville Bar Association and a Fellow of the Nashville Bar Foundation, and he has been active in a number of other civic or volunteer organizations.

Mr. East served on the Tennessee Bar Association Committee for the Tennessee Revised Limited Liability Company Act, which drafted legislation currently in place. He is a frequent speaker at seminars concerning limited liability companies.

Mr. East enjoys running and swimming, and he is an avid water skier and barefooter.

Education:

University of Mississippi (B.A., magna cum laude, 1984); Vanderbilt University (J.D., 1987).

Bar admissions:

Tennessee, 1987.

Member:

Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations.