EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC (1992 – 1996)
Babcock Graduate School of Management and School of Law
● J.D., Cum Laude, M.B.A., with Distinction, May 1996.
● Law School Class Rank 3/160; The Order of the Coif.
● Wake Forest Law Review (1994 – 1996); Articles Editor (1995 – 1996); Published Note (1996).
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (1986 – 1990)
● Bachelor of Arts with High Distinction, May 1990. GPA 3.73.
● Distinguished Majors Program, Corcoran Department of History: 1st Place Thesis.
● Phi Beta Kappa, Echols Scholar, Phi Alpha Theta International Honors Society in History.
PERSONAL BACKGROUND:
● I live with my wife and children in Crozet, Virginia.
● I have five children, four stepchildren, and three step-grandchildren.. .
● I serve as an Assistant Scoutmaster in the Boy Scouts of America with Troop 79, in Crozet, Virginia. I am an Eagle Scout.
● I am an active parishioner at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Charlottesville, Virginia, where my wife and I serve on the Haiti Committee.
WORK BACKGROUND:
Jeffrey A. Sanborn, Esq. -- Sanborn Law PLC – Charlottesville, VA (2017 – Present) (Transactional & Litigation)
PRA Group, Inc. (NASDAQ “PRAA”)-- Norfolk, VA & Charlottesville, VA (2010 – 2017)
Corporate Counsel, Senior Corporate Counsel, & Chief Corporate Counsel (Primarily Transactional)
● Head of In-House Corporate Legal Group leading three attorneys and one corporate paralegal.
● Lead In-House Corporate Counsel in company’s domestic and international expansion via new corporate formations and M&A transactions of up to $1.3 billion in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Europe, Israel, Australia, and Brazil, participating in transaction negotiations and decision-making.
● Lead In-House Corporate Counsel in financing transactions, including securities offerings of up to $287.5 million and credit facility negotiations of up to $600 million.
● Drafted and negotiated commercial agreements; drafted / assisted with various securities filings.
● Litigation support for domestic and international contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and other claims.
● Served on Company’s 401(k) Committee, actively promoting fee and cost reductions.
Wolcott Rivers Gates – Virginia Beach, VA (2009 – 2010)
Attorney & Member -- Corporate Section – Corporate & Securities (Transactional & Litigation)
Williams Mullen, A Professional Corporation – Norfolk, VA (2005 – 2009)
Associate Attorney & Partner -- Corporate Section – Corporate & Securities (Transactional)
● Closed numerous private placements of securities and M&A transactions of up to $200 million.
● Worked on contract negotiations, complex corporate restructurings, and securities matters.
Mark J. Krudys, PLC – Richmond, VA & Chesapeake, VA (2004 – 2005)
Attorney, Of Counsel (Litigation and Arbitration)
● Represented businesses and individuals in corporate and securities arbitration and litigation.
● Claims included securities fraud, accounting malpractice, breach of fiduciary duties, etc.
Vanguard Platinum LLC – Chesapeake, VA (2002 – 2003)
President & General Counsel – directed executive management and contract negotiations (Transactional).
LeClair Ryan, A Professional Corporation– Richmond, VA & Norfolk, VA (1996 – 2002)
Associate Attorney & Officer – Corporate and Securities Group (Transactional)
● Extensive corporate, public and private securities, M&A, and commercial transactional work.
● Coordinated the corporate and securities work on over 40 private placements of securities.
● Lead counsel in closing a $60 million venture capital financing for a corporate issuer in 1999.
Community Group, Inc. – Richmond, VA (1990 – 1992, before graduate school)
Account Manager – managed $50 million in residential real estate
PUBLICATIONS:
● Co-author, “Securities Arbitration Law,” ANNUAL REVIEW OF DEVELOPMENTS IN BUSINESS AND CORPORATE LITIGATION, Committee on Business and Corporate Litigation of the American Bar Association (2004).
● Editorial and Research Assistant, Alan R. Palmiter, SECURITIES REGULATION, EXAMPLES AND EXPLANATIONS (Aspen Publishers, Inc., 1998).
● Author, “The Rise of ‘Shareholder Derivative Arbitration’: In re Salomon, Inc.,” 31 WAKE FOREST L. REV. 337 (1996).
