Experienced Charlotte-area transactions and corporate attorney and former in-house counsel Anna Mills has joined Womble Carlyle.

Mills counsels companies in mergers, acquisitions, sales, corporate formations, expansions, financing, strategic investments, lending and other mission-critical commercial deals. She also works with business owners and corporate counsel on general business matters, including contracts, leases, UCC filings and business disputes.

Mills currently serves as Chair of the North Carolina Bar Association’s Business Law Section.

“Anna is well-known and well-respected among transactional attorneys in this region,” said Jeff Hay, Managing Partner of Womble Carlyle’s Charlotte office. “We are pleased to be able to bring an attorney with her experience and abilities to our Corporate and Securities Team.”

Mills comes to Womble Carlyle from The Van Winkle Law Firm, where she was Principal-in-Charge of their Charlotte office.

Before returning to private practice, Mills served as Manager of Real Estate Law for Shoney’s, Inc. In this role, she focused on disposition of real estate through sales, leases, subleases and lease terminations.

About Womble Carlyle

Womble Carlyle is a 550-attorney law firm that corporate clients rely on to provide core legal services, such as Complex Business Litigation, Mass Torts, Intellectual Property, Corporate & Securities, Finance and Real Estate.

Our focus is the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic and Silicon Valley markets, and from this footprint, we serve clients in matters across the country and across the world. Clients trust us because we understand their businesses, focus on their successes, demonstrate a commitment to help, and deliver value for their dollars they spend on us.

Thanks to Womble Carlyle’s partnership with Lex Mundi, the world’s largest association of independent law firms, we can offer clients access to quality-tested local counsel in more than 120 countries. Lex Mundi provides seamless access to local attorneys and market knowledge throughout the globe.

Womble Carlyle’s offices are located in: Atlanta; Charleston, Columbia and Greenville, S.C.; Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, Research Triangle Park, and Winston-Salem, N.C.; Silicon Valley, Calif., Washington, D.C.; Charlottesville and Tysons Corner, Va.; Baltimore; and Wilmington, Del.