Lawyer Profile

William C. Argabrite

Hunter, Smith & Davis, LLP

Website for William C. Argabrite

1212 North Eastman Road
Kingsport, TN 37664
Phone: 423-378-8800
Firm Website: http://www.hsdlaw.com

Listed in Best Lawyers since 2009.

Attorney Bio

  • Wake  Forest University, 1975, Bachelor of Arts
  • Wake  Forest University, 1978, Juris Doctorate, cum laude 

 

  • General  Corporate Transactions including Mergers and  Acquisitions and Tax-Exempt Financing
  • Banking  Law
  • Health Care Law

 

  • Tennessee  Supreme Court, Tennessee  Bar, 1978
  • U.S.  Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
  • U.S.  District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts  of Tennessee
  • A.V. Rating from Martindale Hubbell
  • Fellow, Tennessee Bar Foundation \ 
  • American  Bar Association
  • Tennessee  Bar Association
  • Fellow, Tennessee Bar Foundation
  • Past  President of the Kingsport Bar Association
  • Kingsport  Bar Association
  • Corporate,  Banking and Health Law Sections of the American Bar  Association
  • Paul  Harris Fellow (Rotary International)

Practice Areas

  • Banking and Finance Law (Asset-Based Lending, Bankruptcy and Workouts, Bond Finance, Finance, Loan Documentation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Real Estate, Regulatory, Restructurings, Secured Transactions, Tax-Increment Financing, Transactions)

Case History

  • Medical Office Building Monetization Project — Complex sale and leaseback of 11 medical office buidlings located in Tennessee and Virginia; transaction involved both fee simple transfers and long-term ground leases and disposition of deeds of trust securing over $500 million in outstanding hospital revue boinds
  • Bank Merger Proxy Contest — Representation of minority shareholders in opposing merger of North Carolina community bank into larger out state of banking institution
  • Bank Holding Company Private Placement Offering — Successful reverse split and reorganization of bank holding company to qualify for election as S corporation under Internal Revenue Code
  • The Homestead Hotel Group, LLC v. Bank of Tennessee — Successful defense of lender liability claims asserted by investment group which had purchased foreclosed hotel from selling bank and obtained purchase money finaincing from selling bank.  Suit also included successful counterclaim by bank for deficiency judgment after second foreclosure of hotel when investment group defaulted on purchase money mortgage debt.

    The Homestead Hotel Group, LLC v. Bank of Tennessee, No. E2008-00350-COA-R3-CV (Tenn App. 2009) cert. denied (2009).