+ Jeff Gurney

Jeff Gurney is a partner with Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP in Greenville, SC. Jeff has a multifaceted and diverse practice, which includes private and public mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, fund formations and securities offerings, corporate governance matters, corporate and business entity law, nonprofit law, taxation, and complex estate planning. Jeff, among other things, often represents clients in structuring funds and securities offerings.

+ Evan Slavitt

Evan Slavitt is the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for KYOCERA AVX Components Corporation, an international public corporation where he oversees all legal, environmental/safety, and insurance/risk management matters. Before joining AVX, Mr. Slavitt was a partner in Bodoff & Slavitt, LLP, where he concentrated his practice in complex commercial litigation and white-collar criminal defense. Mr. Slavitt is a frequent author and lecturer on legal matters as well as the author of one work of fiction. He is a graduate of Philips Exeter Academy, Yale University (B.A. and M.A. in economics) and the Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Mr. Slavitt was an assistant U.S. attorney from 1983 to 1987. Mr. Slavitt also serves as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association and others.

+ Suyash Raiborde

Suyash Raiborde is an Associate with Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell LLP in New York City. His practice focuses on public-private partnerships, alternative project delivery (such as design-build contracting), and construction matters nationally. Suyash routinely represents both public and private sector entities in the structuring, financing, procurement, contract negotiation, and contract administration of major infrastructure projects. Most recently, Suyash has focused his time representing airports in terminal redevelopment projects and transit authorities in autonomous vehicle infrastructure projects. His multi-jurisdictional practice enables him to understand market and political trends nationally in the infrastructure space. Suyash started his legal career in Greenville, SC.

+ Andrew D. Merline

Andy’s practice is focused on the areas of: Mergers and Acquisitions, Business and Transactional Law, Succession Planning, Estate Planning and Estate Administration, Taxation, LLCs, Partnerships, Family Limited Partnerships and Corporations and Asset Protection Planning. Andy is a graduate of Clemson University, the University of South Carolina School of Law, and Boston University School of Law. He holds a Masters of Laws in Taxation. Andy and his wife, Erin, are members of Buncombe Street United Methodist Church in Greenville. He is also an active member at the Caine Halter Branch of the YMCA in Greenville. Outside of the office, Andy enjoys playing tennis, fishing, classic cars and craft beer.

+ Catherine Stoddard

Catherine is a Senior Manager in the Forensic, Litigation Support and Valuation Services for Dixon Hughes Goodman. She has over 30 years of accounting experience including: audit, tax, corporate accounting, business consulting, forensic accounting, business valuation, and litigation support. Catherine assists business owners with valuation issues associated with transactions of a business, buy-sell agreements, transition planning, gift and estate planning. She also assists attorneys and their clients with the financial and economic issues in divorce, contract disputes, shareholder disputes, fraud, business interruption, lost profits, and complex commercial litigation. She has provided deposition and trial testimony relating to financial, accounting, economic, and valuation issues. She has also testified in arbitration hearings and has participated in numerous mediations.