Overview
Marshall Newman is an attorney with Smith Anderson’s Corporate & Transactional and Start-Ups groups, where he assists businesses from their inception all the way to exit. His practice focuses on corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, financings, corporate governance and general contracting. Marshall’s practice also includes advising clients on data privacy matters.
Prior to joining Smith Anderson, Marshall was a student attorney with the Startup NC Law Clinic in Chapel Hill, where he counseled new startups on a variety of legal matters and was a summer associate at a large international law firm in New York. A Triangle native, Marshall follows local sports and cheers for his alma mater, NC State.
Areas of Focus
Credentials
Education
- University of North Carolina School of Law, J.D., with high honors, 2023
- Articles Editor, North Carolina Law Review
- Innocence Project
- Student Attorney, Startup NC Law Clinic
- North Carolina State University, B.S., Statistics 2020
Bar & Court Admissions
- North Carolina
Affiliations
- Development Committee, Triangle Land Conservancy (2025-present)
Experience
- Represented a leading clinical research organization in its divestiture of two lines of business to a leading private equity firm specializing in building market-leading, technology-rich healthcare companies, in the amount of $340,000,000.
