P. Adam Davis
P. Adam Davis is the Senior Managing Partner of Davis & Sarbinoff, LLP, and his practice is devoted exclusively to the representation of both established and emerging businesses. Mr. Davis has extensive business law experience and routinely represents clients in the areas of business services and transactions, mergers and acquisitions, business expansion, securities and franchise law, real estate, zoning and land use, trademark and copyright, business capitalization, financing and succession planning, regulatory compliance and professional licensing, and complex business litigation (administrative, trial and appellate practice).
Mr. Davis is a published author and has lectured on various topics related to business law, established a wide array of emerging businesses, and routinely deals in business acquisitions ranging from smaller deals to large multi-million dollar transactions. Mr. Davis represents an array of businesses, including but not limited to restaurants, bars and retailers, real estate investors and developers, franchisors and franchisees, medical offices, title companies, mortgage companies, engineering firms, and manufacturing facilities.
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AREAS OF PRACTICE
- Business Law, Formation and Transactions
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Real Estate Services, Zoning and Land Use
- Commercial Litigation, Trial and Appellate Practice
- Administrative Law, Regulatory Compliance and Professional Licensing
- Franchise and Distribution Law, Securities and Business Expansion
- Business Finance and Planning
- Trademark and Copyright
EDUCATION
- Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington (J.D. Cum Laude)
- Indiana University-Bloomington (B.A.)
ADMISSIONS
- Indiana Supreme Court
- Indiana Court of Appeals
- Indiana Circuit, Superior and City Courts
- Indiana Administrative Courts
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana
- United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
- United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Indiana
- United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Indiana
- United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois
- United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- United States Patent and Trademark Courts
- United States Patent and Trademark Courts
- United States Supreme Court
LEGAL AFFILIATIONS
- Indianapolis Bar Association (Business Law, Real Estate and Litigation Sections)
- Hamilton County Bar Association (Business Law, Real Estate and Litigation Sections)
- Indiana State Bar Association (Business Law, Real Estate, and Litigation Sections)
- Seventh Circuit Bar Association (Business Law, Real Estate, and Litigation Sections)
- American Bar Association (Business Law, Real Estate, and Litigation Sections)
- Indiana Trial Lawyers Association
OTHER AFFILIATIONS
- Debbie's Make-You-Smile Fund, I.U. Cancer Center, Founder
- Indiana University Cancer Center Complete Life Program
- Prevail Center for Victims of Crime
- Chaucie's Place for Children
- Williamson Run Homeowners Association Board Member (2005-06)
- Carmel Chamber of Commerce
- Fishers Chamber of Commerce
- Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce
PUBLICATIONS AND LECTURES
- Lecturer and Author, “Financing the Small Business,” National Business Institute Seminar (2006).
- Lecturer and Author, “Legal and Practical Considerations for Operating a Small Business,” National Business Institute Seminar (2006).
- Lecturer and Author, “Commercial Real Estate Leasing & Negotiations,” National Business Institute Seminar (2004).
- Author, "The Defamation of Choice-of-Law in Cyberspace: Countering the View that the Restatement (Second) of Conflict of Laws is Inadequate to Navigate the Borderless Reaches of the Intangible Frontier," 54. Fed. Comm. L. J. 339 (2002).
- Lecturer, Indiana University School of Law Professionalism Seminar (2000).
Assistant Reporter, "Report and Recommendations for the ABA Commission on Public Financing of Judicial Campaigns," ABA (2001).
- Assistant Reporter, "Independence and Accountability in the Improvement of the Administration of Justice" ABA Press, 7th Edition (2001).
- Editor, "Understanding Civil Procedure" 3rd Ed. (2001).
- Editor, "Cases and Materials on Conflicts of Law" (Forthcoming 2006).
- Research Analyst, "Public Financing of Judicial Elections: An Overview" 34 LOY.L.A L. REV 1467 (2001).
- Research Analyst, "Judicial Independence, Judicial Accountability, and the Role of Constitutional Norms in Congressional Regulation of the Courts," 78 Ind. L. J. 153 (2003).
- Research Analyst, “When Courts and Congress Collide: The Struggle for Control of America's Judicial System” (2006).
HONORS & ACHIEVEMENTS
- Indiana Business Journal 2008 Forty Under 40 Award, Recipient
- WIBC-53 rd Bank 2007 Business Excellence Award, Recipient
- ABA Commission on Public Financing of Judicial Campaigns, Assistant to the Reporter
- President of Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington Student Government Federal Communications Law Journal, Managing Editor
- Indiana University School of Law Moot Court Board
- Top Moot Court Oralist Award
- Indiana University School of law—Bloomington Teaching Excellence & Recognition Award Committee
- Judge, "We the People... the Citizen and the Constitution," IN Cong. Dist. 6 & 10 (2001)
- Indiana University School of Law Leadership Award
- Indiana University School of Law Excellence Award
- Indiana University School of Law Representative of the Year
- Federal Communications Law Journal Excellence Award
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