Overview
Allison helps clients navigate sophisticated legal issues while advancing their enterprise goals. She serves Fortune 500 companies, private equity firms, and other entities across sectors, including consumer products, industrial distribution, transportation and logistics, healthcare, energy, restaurants, and retail. Clients rely on her for practical, business-focused advice throughout the transaction lifecycle.
She is known for her technical proficiency and adaptability, tailoring strategies to a client's objectives, industry, and specific deal dynamics. In addition to providing day-to-day counsel on general corporate matters, she has managed a wide range of complex transactions domestically and internationally, including:
- Acquisitions and divestitures of stock and assets
- Equity financing transactions
- Leveraged buyouts
- Strategic and venture capital investments
- Joint ventures
- Recapitalizations and other control and non-control transactions
- Complex commercial contracts
In each engagement, Allison helps clients identify and manage legal risks while advancing their strategic objectives.
Representative Experience
Team member experience prior to joining Moore & Van Allen
- Advised a private equity firm in the acquisition of a technology-enabled logistics and software services provider as an add-on acquisition for an existing portfolio company in the logistics sector
- Advised a NYSE-listed technology company in the carve-out sale of its digital banking business to a private investment firm for a purchase price exceeding $2 billion
- Advised a private equity firm in the acquisition of a third-party logistics provider and freight brokerage company
- Advised a leading home improvement retailer in connection with its acquisition of a slab and tile distribution business
- Represented a NYSE-listed specialty materials company in the carve-out sale of its engineered papers business to a strategic buyer for an aggregate purchase price exceeding $600 million
- Advised a leading home improvement retailer, through a subsidiary, in connection with the acquisition of the nation's largest multifamily flooring services provider
- Advised a private equity firm in the acquisition of a freight forwarding company specializing in U.S.-Mexico cross-border logistics as an add-on acquisition for an existing transportation and logistics platform
- Advised a private equity firm in the acquisition of a global provider of design, deployment, and support services for commercial fleet and enterprise facility technology applications
- Advised a private equity firm in connection with the platform acquisition of a provider of white-glove final-mile delivery services for heavy goods and customized logistics solutions
- Represented a publicly traded timber REIT in its merger with a publicly traded timberland and wood products company
- Represented a technology services company in connection with its merger with a subsidiary of a publicly traded digital advertising and marketing services company
- Represented a private equity firm, through a portfolio company, in the acquisition of a group of valve distribution and flow-control businesses
- Represented a publicly traded steel producer in connection with the acquisition of a majority interest in a steel manufacturing joint venture for $440 million
- Represented a publicly traded steel producer in connection with the acquisition of a structural steel products manufacturer for $370 million from an employee stock ownership plan
Education
J.D., Emory University School of Law, 2017
MBA, Emory University Goizueta Business School, 2017
B.A., Denison University, 2010
Admissions
- North Carolina, 2018
Languages
- German