About Merrill
Merrill's practice experience encompasses a broad range of business law matters, including start-up businesses, business transfers and acquisitions, transactional matters, and tax matters. He has extensive experience representing contractors, design professionals, and project owners in drafting and negotiating construction, design, and design/build contracts. His practice also includes the representation of health care organizations and their owners in corporate, transactional, and merger and acquisition matters. Merrill assists hemp industry clients with the formation of companies, including negotiation of operating agreements and buy-sell agreements, preparation and negotiation of hemp industry agreements, such as manufacturing agreements, as well as mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. He has been rated by his peers as being "preeminent" in his respective fields of law. Merrill has been a Certified Public Accountant since 1994.
Practice Areas
Case History
Professional Affiliations
Awards & Recognition
- Recognized: Corporate Law
- Practice Area: Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Practice Area: Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Practice Area: Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law
- Practice Area: Corporate Compliance Law
- Practice Area: Corporate Governance Law
- Practice Area: Tax Law
- Special Focus: Construction
- Special Focus: COVID-19
- Special Focus: Workouts and Restructurings
- The Best Lawyers in America, 2013-2024
- "Legal Elite," Business North Carolina, 2016, 2024