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Gregory P. Bergethon

Greg combines his legal experience with insight gained from serving as a Certified Public Accountant to help clients achieve their business goals.

With experience across mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financing, business structuring and tax planning, Greg focuses on the legal business needs of regional, national, and international clients. He especially enjoys working with investment banking firms, venture capital firms, and professional services organizations.

Whether helping you raise capital, form your next business entity, protect your assets, or manage your liability, Greg offers legal strategies tailored to your specific business or personal situation so you can confidently pursue your mission. Greg also enjoys teaching tax-exempt organizations how to effectively manage their resources and operations.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Greg was a Senior Auditor and consultant with KPMG. There, he counseled clients in the information, communications, and entertainment industries through initial and secondary public and private offerings. He encouraged clients to establish and implement “best practices” in their newly acquired business units. In addition to his work in the United States, Greg also worked as an expatriate in KPMG’s London, United Kingdom office, focusing on auditing and consulting to financial service providers.

Greg currently serves as an adjunct law professor with Regent University School of Law, teaching non-profit law, mergers and acquisitions, international transactions, and business planning and taxation. Further, Greg is a professor for the International Transaction class in South Korea, through its partnership with Regent University. Greg is also a sought-after lecturer for corporations and educational institutions throughout the U.S. and internationally, including Africa, Europe and Asia. He has been a guest lecturer at a Fortune 150 company’s corporate training on international transactions.

Education & Admissions

Education

University of Richmond
B.S., cum laude, 1993

College of William & Mary Law School
J.D. 2000

Admissions

District of Columbia

New York

Virginia

Honors & Recognitions

"Legal Elite," Virginia Business Magazine, Taxes/Estates/Trusts 2016-2017, 2019-2024

Super Lawyers, 2010

"20 under 40", Emerging Leaders, 2009 Blue Ridge Business Journal

Experience

Strategic Planning

Developed, analyzed, and executed strategic planning for $100 million closely held business transaction

Joint Venture Facilitating

Navigated skillfully international transactional issues allowing a $150 million joint venture of key U.S.–based natural resource organizations to successfully achieve cross-border trade and investment flows with Africa

Venture Capital Raising

Conceived, composed, and implemented offering placement memorandums and related agreements for multiple venture capital and private equity funds raising capital ranging from $5 million to $100 million

Tax Strategizing

Structured and implemented innovative international tax strategies and drafted numerous related agreements allowing one of the United States’ largest donor-advised funds to expand worldwide

International Protecting

Formulated distinct financial holdings and operational structures for a Fortune 500 company to uniquely protect organizational and governmental interests domestically and internationally

Affiliations

Community

Great Commission Resource International, Inc.,  Strategic Planning Committee Member

Mars Hill Faith & Freedom Worldwide Summit

Pinnacle Forum

Stop Abuse, Advisory Board Member

Storehouse Trust/Crosswater Global Foundation, Ltd.

Tidewater Community College/Academy for Nonprofit Excellence, Guest Lecturer

WorldChangers, Board Member

Professional

American Bar Association, Business Law and Tax Sections

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)

Regent University School of Law, Adjunct Professor

Virginia Board of Accountancy, CPA

Virginia State Bar

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