Immediate Past-President

Eugene C. Pridgen
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
North Carolina Bar Association
gene.pridgen@klgates.com

Past-President Eugene C. Pridgen, who served as the 116th president of the North Carolin in 2010-11, serves as the administrative partner for K&L Gates in Charlotte. He joined Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Hickman in 1978 and has remained with the firm, which combined with K&L Gates in 2008, throughout most of his career. He served as executive vice president and general counsel of Glenayre Technologies from 1997-99.

Education

J.D., Wake Forest University School of Law (1978) (magna cum laude; Wake Forest Law Review, Editor in Chief)
M.B.A., Wake Forest University (1975) (with distinction)
B.S., North Carolina State University (1969) (Blue Key, President; Golden Chain; Order of 30 & 3)

Military Service

Captain, United States Army, serving from 1969-73.

Bar Admissions

Bar of North Carolina

Professional/Civic Activities
American Bar Foundation

Fellow

North Carolina Bar Association and Foundation

Immediate Past President
President, 2010-11
President Elect, 2009-10
Board of Governors, 2003-06
Citizen Lawyer Task Force, Chair, 2007-09
Strategic Planning and Emerging Trends Committee, Member, 2001-04
Development Committee, Chair, 1994-1997

Boy Scouts of America

Mecklenburg County Council, Executive Board, 1999-present;
Attorney to Council, 2001-03;
Executive Committee, 2001-present;
Vice President, Finance, 2003-06;
President-Elect, 2006-07;
President, 2007-09

United Way of Central Carolinas

Board of Directors, 2004-present
Regional Campaign Chair 2009
Father's Day Council, 2006-present

Wake Forest University School of Law

Board of Visitors, 1996-present
Vice Chair, 2003-04
Chair-Elect, 2004-05
Chair, 2005-07

Center for Law and the Humanities

Board of Directors, 2007-present

Firm Profile

Eugene Pridgen focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate law and international transactions. He serves as primary outside counsel to private and public companies and has represented clients in numerous merger and acquisition and other corporate transactions.

Representative Experience

Provides U.S. general counsel services for a publicly traded U.K. company and its U.S. subsidiaries that manufacture filtration materials and equipment for fuel cell materials.
Represented purchaser in leveraged recapitalization of plastics company.
Represented purchaser in purchase of snack food company.
Represented purchaser in purchase of telecommunications device manufacturer through a reverse cash merger.
Represented the selling shareholders in the sale of stock of an insurance company.

Achievements

Best Lawyers in America, Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2005-09
"North Carolina Super Lawyers," Business/Corporate Law, 2007-09
"Legal Elite," Business North Carolina Magazine, Business Law, 2006, 2008
Judson D. DeRamus Award for Outstanding Alumni Service, Wake Forest University Graduate School of Management