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Clem is a seasoned lawyer with extensive experience in the area of commercial transactions and has positively impacted corporate efficiency and profitability for Fortune 50 companies and small businesses over the years.  As part of his experience, he served as assistant general counsel for Enron Corp. and was appointed by bankruptcy trustee as a lead member on the corporate restructuring team after what was one of the largest bankruptcies in U.S. history.  He represents corporations, their stakeholders and financial investors in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, leveraged buyouts and business startups. In addition, he regularly provides counsel on estate planning, general corporate and compliance matters and corporate governance issues as outsourced general counsel.. Clem is a musician, martial artists and loves community involvement by tutoring kids for the Life Enrichment Center of Norfolk.

Mr. Reed has been practicing law in the Tidewater area since 1984. He is a certified public accountant and specializes in taxation, corporate law, executive compensation, and real estate matters.He is a life-long resident of Virginia Beach. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia (B.S. Commerce - 1979), George Washington University (Masters in Accounting - 1982), University of Richmond (Juris Doctor - 1984), and the College of William and Mary (Master in Laws and Taxation - 1988).He is married and has five children

You’ll want Benjamin Webb King on your team when it comes to bankruptcy and creditors’ rights. Webb regularly represents creditors, debtors and other interest holders in Chapter 11 cases and creditors in Chapter 13 and Chapter 7 cases.. Webb also represents creditors outside of bankruptcy, handling foreclosures, working to perfect and enforce lien rights and enforce court judgments, including use of the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act to enforce judgments obtained outside Virginia.. Beyond bankruptcy, he has handled a wide variety of civil cases, including Uniform Commercial Code matters, mechanic’s liens, FELA cases, breach of contract cases, real estate disputes and business torts. Webb also regularly handles both commercial and residential landlord/tenant matters.. Webb graduated from Roanoke College and magna cum laude from the University of Richmond School of Law, where he served as an associate editor of the Law Review and as a teaching assistant for a first-year legal skills class. He clerked for Woods Rogers during law school.. Webb is past chair of the Virginia Bar Association’s Young Lawyer’s Division. He has contributed to Bankruptcy Law News, a publication of the Virginia State Bar.. Webb is the past president of the board of directors of the Greenvale School in Roanoke, a non-profit childcare center that provides services designed for working families and single parents.

Alexander I. Saunders offers clients more than 30 years of experience in tax and corporate law. His practice includes tax planning for individuals and businesses, estate planning, and corporate sales and acquisitions. He also represents businesses and individuals before tax authorities and in court on tax matters.. Alex has written and lectured extensively in the fields of tax law, trust and estate law and corporate law and was one of the authors of the first treatise on limited liability companies in Virginia. He is listed in Best Lawyers in America in the field of Taxation, Trusts and Estates, and Corporate Law and in Virginia Business as one of the “Legal Elite” in taxes/estates/trusts. Alex has been named by Best Lawyers in America as the best in this geographic area in the field of Corporate Law in one year and for 2012/2013 in the field of Taxation. Alex also has been named in The Roanoker magazine as the Valley’s top individual attorney in the fields of Tax Law and Trusts and Estates by vote of members of the local bar. Alex’s work also has resulted in him being listed in the field of Taxation by Virginia Super Lawyer magazine.. He’s a graduate of the University of Virginia and University of Virginia Law School and has a master of laws degree in taxation from New York University. He served as law clerk to Judge H. S. Boreman of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals before joining Woods Rogers.. Alex is a member and former chairman of the Roanoke College Estate Planning Council, member and former chairman of the Ferrum College Estate Planning Council, member of the Roanoke Valley Estate Planning Council and member of The Jefferson Center’s Planned Giving Council.. Alex has served on the board of the Roanoke Valley YMCA and is legal counsel to the organization. He has served on numerous other local charitable boards, including the Science Museum of Western Virginia and the Foundation for Roanoke Valley.