Vanderbilt University Law School
Robert D. Tuke
Adjunct Professor of Law Partner, Trauger & Tuke
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Fax: 615-256-7444
Email: rtuke@tntlaw.com
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Education
J.D. Vanderbilt University
B.A. University of Virginia
Biography
Bob Tuke is a founding partner in the Nashville firm of Trauger & Tuke, where he focuses on corporate and securities, tax-exempt finance, health care, and adoption law. He is the author of a number of articles on securities, ethics, municipal finance, health care, and adoption law. He has served as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, trustee’s counsel and borrower’s counsel in many tax-exempt finance transactions, and as lender’s and borrower’s counsel in multi-state commercial financings and letter of credit financings. He also has served as lead counsel in numerous merger and acquisition transactions, tender offers, proxy contests, corporate restructurings, registered securities offerings, and private placements. He has litigated several federal court actions challenging state anti-takeover statutes. He has served as counsel to corporate directors and special committees and has advised various enterprises regarding the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Professor Tuke is a member of the Nashville, Tennessee, and American Bar Associations and of the National Association of Bond Lawyers. He is a Fellow of the Tennessee Bar Foundation and the Nashville Bar Foundation. He also is a Fellow and past President of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys. He served on the Tennessee Adoption Law Study Commission and was a principal draftsman of Tennessee’s revised Adoption Code. He recently completed a term as chairman of the Tennessee Democratic Party. He was admitted to the United States Supreme Court in 1986. He is also admitted to practice before the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Sixth and Federal Circuits, and before the United States Court of International Trade.
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