Randall W. Johnson is a senior level corporate and securities attorney with more than 23 years of experience in providing legal counsel to companies involved in capital markets, finance and mergers and acquisitions transactions. As the former President of an international trade finance company, Mr. Johnson has both the legal experience and the business sense to counsel senior management of publicly traded and middle-market companies throughout their most important capital raising and financing transactions.
As a member of Locke Lord’s Regulatory and Transactional Insurance and Capital Markets groups, Mr. Johnson structures and documents some of the largest U.S. and international offerings of insurance-linked securities and served as underwriters’ counsel for the first publicly-traded insurance premium finance company. His practice includes significant experience in the international trade finance markets, including representing large trade credit insurers, trade finance companies and asset based trade credit lenders in structuring and documenting their finance transactions, products and risk-protection programs.
Mr. Johnson is a frequent speaker at insurance-linked securities and alternative investment trade association and legal events and conferences.
Education
- B.A., Emory University, 1984
- J.D., Emory University Law School, 1987
Managing Editor, Emory International Law Review
Co-director, Emory Moot Court
Bar Admissions
Representative Experience
- Lead counsel in the purchase or sale of more than 60 companies for prices between $5 million and $3.25 billion
- Restructuring a publicly-traded medical service provider, including the negotiated sales of more than 20 divisions
- Structuring acquisition programs and completing more than 70 acquisitions for four different private healthcare service companies
- Organizing and negotiating multiple-stage venture capital financing for more than 25 technology companies
- Structuring the organization of more than 100 business organizations
- Structuring and completing the spin-off of a division of a mental health facility
- Structuring and completing the funding for, and investments by, venture capital firms
- Organizing, funding and structuring banking and finance relationships for an international trade finance company
Publications & Presentations
Professional History
- Of Counsel, Locke Lord LLP
Professional Affiliations & Achievements
- AV® Rated Lawyer, Martindale-Hubble
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