Catherine C. Ayres
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Catherine Ayres represents small to mid-range businesses and their owners in a variety of corporate and business matters, including organization of business entities, general contract work, mergers and acquisitions, sales of business entities, securities issues, finance, and commercial real estate matters.
Miss Ayres has been recognized by Virginia Super Lawyers as a "Rising Star" in Business & Corporate Law for 2010.
Representative Clients/Matters
- Private offerings of exempt securities
- Purchase of collateral with respect to local restaurant
- Refinance of a group of shopping centers
- Restructure of a software company to reflect the investment of a minority interest therein by a major financial institution
- Sale of regional chain of convenience stores
- Develop and draft easement agreements
- Conduit financing for hotel property
- Sale of land for the development of a residential real estate subdivision
- Sale of warehouse portfolio to NYSE REIT
- Various business acquisitions and sales
- Purchase of land, development, and construction of hotels
- Purchase and sale of warehouses
- Sale of assets of insurance company
- Restructure and conversion of limited partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporations
- Formation of Virginia limited liability companies, corporations, and partnerships
- Draft, develop, and review commercial leases
- Draft, develop, and review of various contracts including construction contracts, licensing and consulting agreements, and dealer and agency agreements
Articles, Seminars & News
- Corporate and Business Law Blog
- Real Estate and Land Use Blog
- Lecturer, “LLCs and Other Business Entities:
The Legal and Tax Implications”
- Business Forms – Non-Tax Factors in Choosing a Virginia Business Entity
- Forming a Limited Liability Company
Practice Areas
Education
- University of Virginia, B.A., 2002
- T.C. Williams School of Law,
University of Richmond, J.D.,
cum laude, 2005
- Virginia, 2005
- United States District Court
for the Eastern District of Virginia - United States Court of Appeals
for the Fourth Circuit
- Virginia State Bar
- Business Law Section
- Real Property Section
- Bar Association of the City of Richmond
- Founding Member of the Business Law Section
- Chair-Elect, 2010-2011
- Executive Committee Member, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010
- CLE Committee 2007-2009
- Founding Member of the Business Law Section
- American Bar Association
- Real Property Section
- Probate & Trust Section
- Business Law Section
- Young Lawyers