George Nemphos

George J. Nemphos is a founding member of NB Law representing entrepreneurs, start-ups, emerging and mature companies, as well as venture capital and private equity funds. Mr. Nemphos has extensive experience in representing and assisting clients in entity choice and formation, mergers and acquisitions, private placements of debt and equity, complex joint ventures, structural and day-to-day issues, as well as corporate governance and securities law compliance. Mr. Nemphos is known for his practical and business oriented solutions to legal issues. Prior to NB Law, Mr. Nemphos was the global chair of a corporate practice group for an AmLaw 100 international law firm, traveling throughout the United States, Asia and the Europe. Having spent a majority of his career with big international law firms, and now as an entrepreneur himself, Mr. Nemphos brings a unique perspective to client issues and works closely with firm clients to achieve practical, business oriented solutions. He frequently advises clients in the manufacturing, consumer products, restaurant, automotive, retail and wholesale, industrial services, technology, and insurance industries, as well as companies in the capital markets, life sciences and homeland security space.

Mr. Nemphos was a winner of SmartCEO’s 2015 Baltimore Power Players Award. For six consecutive years Mr. Nemphos was recognized in Best Lawyers in America as one of the area’s Best Lawyers in Leverage Buyouts and Private Equity. In 2013 he was named Best Lawyers’ “Lawyer of the Year, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law” in Baltimore. Mr. Nemphos was named one of the “40 Under 40” business leaders in Baltimore by the Baltimore Business Journal in 2001. In 2006, Mr. Nemphos completed the GBC Leadership program, a program that hand-picks Baltimore area leaders from business, nonprofits and the government to become strategists for the future of the region. Additionally, in 2008 Institutional Investor named Mr. Nemphos as one of the “10 Rising Stars of Private Equity and M&A Law.”

Admitted to practice in Maryland, Mr. Nemphos holds a LL.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center and received his juris doctorate, magna cum laude, from the University of Baltimore School of Law. Mr. Nemphos also received his bachelor of science degree from Boston University.

Activities:

• Board of Directors, Driving Force Group
• Board of Directors, American Diabetes Association, Maryland Chapter
• St. Paul’s School for Boys, Steering Committee for the Capital Campaign
• Baltimore American Heart Ball Committee, American Heart Association

Awards:

• Power Player Smart CEO Magazine 2015
• Best Lawyer, Leverage Buyouts and Private Equity Best Lawyers in America 2015
• Leverage Buyouts and Private Equity Law Best Lawyers in America 2014
• Lawyer of the Year, Leverage Buyouts, Baltimore Best Lawyers in America 2013
• Leverage Buyout and Private Equity Best Lawyers in America 2013
• Legal Elite SmartCEO Magazine 2012
• Best Lawyer, Leverage Buyout and Private Equity Best Lawyers in America 2012
• Legal Elite SmartCEO Magazine 2011
• Leverage Buyouts and Private Equity Best Lawyers in America 2011
• Leveraged Buyouts and Venture Capital Best Lawyers in America 2010
• Legal Elite SmartCEO Magazine 2009
• Maryland Super Lawyers 2009
• Top 10 Rising Stars of Private Equity and M&A Law, Institutional Investor News 2008
• 2006 Leadership Class Greater Baltimore Committee 2006
• 40 Under 40 Baltimore Business Journal 2001
• Heusler Honor Society University of Baltimore School of Law 1994