Attorney Rick Jackson works primarily with small to mid-size businesses: technology and manufacturing companies; property owners, developers, and homeowner associations; medical and dental practices and hospitals; restaurants and breweries; agricultural and natural product businesses; and nonprofits.

His client successes include -

• Representing the seller in the $7M stock sale of a national, brand-licensing business
• Assisting a local, tech start-up in securing over $1M in funding
• Representing physicians in separating from an existing practice to form a new practice
• Negotiating an additional 20% of the assets for a client ending a real estate partnership
• Creating the declaration, the master homeowners association, and the subassociations for the phased-development of single-family homes and townhomes in a gated subdivision

Rick assists with Corporate and Securities matters including -

• Incorporation and dissolution
• Asset and stock sales
• Joint ventures
• Tax-free reorganizations
• Partnership break-ups
• Business plan review
• Private placements and other financing
• Employee incentive strategies
• Creditors’ rights
• Supply chain agreements

• Medical and dental practice formation and transition
• Employment, contractor, and professional service agreements
• Fraud and Abuse, Anti-Kickback, Stark, HIPAA, and HITECH compliance

• Trademark registration, renewal, and licensing
• Licensing, development, and other software and website-related agreements
• Product licensing

• Commercial leases and purchase and sale contracts
• LEED development and green leasing

• Subdivision and HOA formation and management
• Entitlement and permitting process including negotiations with city and county officials
• Regulatory and ordinance compliance including negotiations with state and federal agencies

• Formation and application for tax-exempt status (501c3, 501c4, and 501c6)
• Board governance and liability issues

Rick is a LEED AP (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional), a distinction he earned through the Green Building Certification Institute. As a LEED AP, he has a thorough understanding of green building practices and principles, as well as the LEED Rating System. He was the first attorney in western North Carolina to earn this credential.

Prior to professional school, Rick was a business consultant in the technology, banking and financial, and healthcare industries in Atlanta, Raleigh, and Boston. He graduated from North Carolina State University as a Caldwell Scholar, where he founded and chaired SATELLITE, a non-profit designed to introduce students from rural North Carolina high schools to science and technology-related education and career paths.

In the community, Rick serves on the board of the Asheville Downtown Association (ADA), the Asheville Independent Restaurant Association (AIR), the North Carolina Natural Products Association (NCNPA), and the Asheville Downtown Improvement District (ADID).