Smith Hulsey & Busey

Angela L. Cottrell is a transactional lawyer at Smith Hulsey & Busey in Jacksonville, Florida, whose practice focuses on complex healthcare matters and mergers and acquisitions. She has advised and represented clients in financing transactions, healthcare regulatory matters, joint ventures, commercial contracts, clinical trials, and corporate governance. Prior to joining Smith Hulsey & Busey, she was a partner at a global AmLaw 100 firm.

Brandon Cook is an associate in the Litigation Department at Smith Hulsey & Busey in Jacksonville, Florida. His practice focuses on business and complex commercial litigation, including corporate transactions and contractual matters, and he represents banks in debt workout arrangements and clients in high-value asset family law matters. Before joining the firm, he served as a judicial extern for Judge Harvey E. Schlesinger of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. He graduated from the University of Florida College of Law and studied political science and economics as an undergraduate at the University of South Florida.

Charmaine T.M. Chiu is an attorney with Smith Hulsey & Busey in Jacksonville, Florida. She attended University of Notre Dame Law School and graduated in 1999. Her practice focuses on health care matters, and she holds a board certification in health law from the Florida Bar Board of Legal Specialization. She speaks Chinese-Cantonese, Chinese-Mandarin, English, and French.

David J. Hull is an attorney at Smith Hulsey & Busey in Jacksonville, Florida. He earned his J.D. from the University of Florida Levin College of Law in 1979. His practice focuses on tax law, trusts and estates, estate planning and probate, and business and corporate matters.

David Roberts advises clients on corporate and real estate matters at Smith Hulsey & Busey in Jacksonville, Florida. Before joining the firm, he founded his own practice in Nashville, Tennessee, focused on corporate and securities issues including mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions, and corporate governance, and he had earlier been an associate in the corporate and securities group at a Nashville firm. He graduated from Vanderbilt Law School, where he served as Executive Editor of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, and he received his bachelor's degree in finance from Florida State University.

G. Preston Keyes earned his J.D. from New England Law | Boston in 1981 and works at Smith Hulsey & Busey in Jacksonville, Florida. He represents clients in complex commercial real estate matters, including sales, acquisitions, leases, development, utilities, financing and loan restructuring. His work includes counseling healthcare clients on land acquisitions and development projects such as hospitals, medical office buildings and ambulatory centers, and representing lenders and national banks in workout agreements.

John R. Thomas is an attorney in Jacksonville, Florida, who practices with Smith Hulsey & Busey. He handles business litigation matters. He studied at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and graduated in 2009.

John W. Wallace practices at Smith Hulsey & Busey in Jacksonville, Florida, in the areas of environmental law, real estate, and land use and zoning law, with an emphasis on litigation. He assists individuals, developers, and public entities with environmental due diligence, permitting, and entitlement, and counsels clients on compliance with federal environmental statutes including the Clean Water Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act. His litigation practice includes administrative proceedings over environmental resource permits, riparian rights disputes for waterfront property owners, and property rights claims. Prior to joining Smith Hulsey & Busey, he practiced with two other Jacksonville law firms and served as an Assistant State Attorney in the Fourth Judicial Circuit.

Kevin Blodgett is an attorney at Smith Hulsey & Busey in Jacksonville, Florida. He studied at Tulane University Law School and graduated in 2012. His practice covers business litigation, environmental, and bankruptcy matters.

Dick Lewis is the managing partner of Smith Hulsey & Busey, a member of the firm's Board of Directors, and chairman of its Business Department. He earned a B.A. and a J.D. from Vanderbilt University. His practice focuses on healthcare, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, contract negotiation, general corporate matters, financings, regulatory matters, and antitrust advice. He represents corporations, limited liability companies, start-up companies, healthcare providers, and individual investors on transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, sales to private equity groups, and a range of financings.

Maxwell Potter is an attorney at Smith Hulsey & Busey in Jacksonville, Florida. He received his J.D. from the University of Florida in 2021. His practice areas include Litigation - Trusts and Estates, Tax Law, and Trusts and Estates.

Megan R. Heiden is an attorney at Smith Hulsey & Busey in Jacksonville, Florida. She graduated in 2007 from the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Her practice focuses on employment and labor matters representing employers, along with health care and medical malpractice defense.

Michael E. Demont is a member of the Board of Directors at Smith Hulsey & Busey in Jacksonville, Florida, where he focuses his practice on complex business litigation and insolvency matters. He earned his J.D. from the University of Florida in 1983. His trial work includes cases involving business torts, bankruptcy proceedings, corporate governance issues, employment disputes, and litigation concerning contracts, secured transactions, fraudulent transfers, and lender liability. Before practicing law at the firm, he spent 12 years as a senior executive with The Suddath Companies, including serving as president of Suddath Van Lines, Inc.

Patrick P. Coll is an attorney at Smith Hulsey & Busey in Jacksonville, Florida. For more than 25 years, he has represented clients in complex litigation and appellate matters in both federal and state courts. His practice covers cases involving fiduciary litigation, estates and trust litigation, non-compete agreements, contract disputes, business valuations, business dissolution, employment disputes, business torts, intellectual property, products liability, real estate litigation, and professional malpractice.

Chris Dix is a shareholder in the Business Department at Smith Hulsey & Busey in Jacksonville, Florida. He is both an attorney and a Certified Public Accountant and counsels individuals and families on estates, trusts and tax matters, including litigating disputes involving trustees, personal representatives and other fiduciaries. He also handles commercial litigation, advises charities and nonprofit organizations on governance and tax issues, and works on sports law and cybersecurity and data privacy matters. He holds the Certified E-Discovery Specialist (CEDS) designation.

Stephen D. Busey earned his J.D. from Stetson University College of Law in 1969. He is chairman of Smith Hulsey & Busey and head of its Litigation Department. His practice centers on complex commercial litigation and insolvency matters, including chapter 11 reorganizations of publicly held companies and disputes involving contracts, business torts, and corporate governance. He also handles sports litigation and league governance matters.

Stephen D. Moore Jr. earned his J.D. from the University of Florida Levin College of Law in 1996 and holds a B.S.M.E. from Florida Atlantic University. He is a member of the Board of Directors at Smith Hulsey & Busey and a corporate transactional lawyer in the firm's Business and Healthcare practice areas. His practice focuses on representing public and private clients in mergers, acquisitions, stock and asset sales, joint ventures, private equity investments, and financings, as well as executive compensation matters. He also advises clients on due diligence, entity selection and structuring, corporate governance, and general contract matters.

William E. Kuntz practices law at Smith Hulsey & Busey in Jacksonville, Florida. He earned his J.D. from the University of Florida in 1973. His practice focuses on medical malpractice defense, personal injury litigation, and business litigation.