Melanie Tuttle practices in the areas of general corporate and commercial law, securities, mergers and acquisitions, and employment law. She has extensive experience in counseling companies on general securities and other corporate law matters, including disclosure, compliance and corporate governance issues. She has worked in a wide variety of public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, complex mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and financings for diverse clients, ranging from large to small and including publicly and privately businesses, financial institutions, manufacturing companies, and professional and service businesses. She has represented private equity funds, management groups and other parties in leveraged buyouts and venture capital transactions. Her practice includes representing clients before administrative agencies and general business counseling. She is knowledgeable about setting up corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships.
Ms. Tuttle also has considerable experience advising employers on labor and employment issues. She regularly assists clients with discrimination and harassment claims, wage and hour claims, and breach of contract claims. She also advises on employment agreements, executive compensation matters, noncompetition agreements, reductions-in-force, and separation agreements. Ms. Tuttle routinely advises clients in developing effective employment policies and practices and employee handbooks.
Melanie Tuttle conducts seminars on various topics of employment law and assists employers in conducting investigations of harassment, whistle-blower and other employment claims. She also counsels regarding corporate governance, meaning how corporations and other entities, both for-profit and not-for-profit, are directed and controlled. She provides advice regarding directors’ fiduciary obligations and how to improve board and management effectiveness.
Ms. Tuttle has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Elon University School of Law, teaching securities regulation and business planning. She has been named to The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White, Inc.) for corporate law and securities/capital markets law.
Before law school, Ms. Tuttle was a mechanical engineer with Procter & Gamble, where she worked on consumer paper products, and General Electric, where she was involved in the design of control systems for jet engines.
Melanie Tuttle is married to Charles and has two sons. She is a cellist and, besides classical music, she enjoys hiking, golf, flyfishing, skeet shooting, dog shows, Michigan and Steeler football, and Oscar and Hester, the family’s Wirehaired Pointing Griffons.
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Education
- University of Michigan, B.S.E.(M.E.), cum laude, 1977
Tau Beta Pi
Pi Tau Sigma
Vulcans
- University of Cincinnati, J.D., 1983
University Prize (highest academic average in graduating class)
Order of the Coif
Editor-in-Chief, University of Cincinnati Law Review
Bar Admissions
- North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio (inactive)
Professional Activities
- Law Clerk to the Honorable Ruggero J. Aldisert, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeal for the Third Circuit, 1983-1985
- Adjunct Professor of Law, Elon University School of Law (securities regulation, business planning)
- Frequent speaker at The HR Group, Inc., Greensboro, North Carolina
Community and Civic Activities
- Eastern Music Festival, member of the Board of Directors
- Women’s Professional Forum
- Women’s Professional Forum Foundation, Inc. (past President)
- Philharmonia of Greensboro (past President)
- Guilford Battleground Company, member of the Board of Directors and a Vice President
- Leadership Greensboro, 2006