Miller & Martin in April announced that Merrill F. Nelson, II has joined the firm as an associate in its Chattanooga office. Merrill joins the firm’s corporate department, where he will practice in the areas of corporate finance, mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, and securities.
“It’s a privilege to have Merrill join our firm. His business experience will greatly complement the depth of expertise of our corporate department,” said Jim Haley, Chairman of the firm.
Nelson graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 2011, where he served as news and acquisitions editor of the school’s legal publication, Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law. In the same year, he also earned a master’s of business administration from the University of Tennessee College of Business Administration, during which time he served as a portfolio manager of the LaPorte Torch Fund, managing a long equity portfolio. He was also a graduate teaching assistant in the University of Tennessee Knoxville Finance Department. In 2007, Nelson received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Real Estate and an Artium Baccalaureatus degree in History from the University of Georgia. Prior to attending law school, he interned in the Washington D.C. office of Senator Bob Corker and completed a fellowship in the office of Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue.
Aside from his various educational endeavors, Nelson has volunteered as a Big Brother in the Knoxville area, spent a summer working in a soup kitchen and running a children’s day camp in Santa Barbara de Heredia, Costa Rica, and assisted several local attorneys in providing pro bono legal assistance for Signal Centers. Nelson grew up on Lookout Mountain and graduated from the McCallie School in 2003. He currently resides in downtown Chattanooga.
Source: Miller & Martin