Taylor Smith

Garland Taylor Smith is a business attorney in Holland & Knight's Chattanooga office and a member of the firm's Corporate Services Team. Mr. Smith focuses his practice on a wide variety of corporate governance and general corporate matters.

Mr. Smith's representative matters include:

• Represented a private equity-backed clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on ocular drug development in its sale to a publicly traded ophthalmic pharmaceutical and medical technology company focused on developing and commercializing novel therapies for rare ophthalmic diseases
• Represented EmVenio Research Inc., the largest provider of community-based clinical trial sites served with mobile research units, in its sale to PCM Trials, the largest independent mobile research nurse visit provider for decentralized clinical trials
• Represented a client as buyer in the acquisition of a majority of the equity of Florida One Insurance Agency LLC, a Delaware limited liability company; the transaction involved a sophisticated pre-closing reorganization
• Represented a client as buyer in the acquisition of all of the equity of The Benefits Group of Haudenschield, Harrison and Blachek LLC, an insurance brokerage company
• Represented a client as buyer in the acquisition of all of the equity of IPA 18 LLC, an insurance brokerage company