Chris Moore represents businesses at all stages of the company life cycle, with significant experience in M&A transactions, commercial contracting, regulatory compliance, reorganizations, and equity financing transactions.
On a day-to-day basis, Chris is a devoted and responsive counsellor to clients of all sizes, serving as outside general counsel to closely held and mid-size companies and as an extension of internal legal departments for large, public corporations. He treats his client's goals as his own, helping them achieve those goals while maintaining a thoughtful and well-reasoned risk profile. By advising companies in a multitude of industries, he has developed a toolkit of different ideas, strategies, and best practices that can be adapted to any company’s specific needs.
Chris frequently represents a variety of operating companies in commercial contracting matters, including the drafting and negotiation of software license and subscription agreements, manufacturing and distribution agreements, professional services agreements, and similar procurement contracts. Chris has particular commercial contracting experience in the health care and clinical research industries, advising providers, clinical vendors, contract research organizations, and medical device sponsors on clinical trial agreements, master services agreements, consulting agreements, data use agreements, equipment leases and purchases, and other similar transactions.
Chris earned his Juris Doctor, summa cum laude, from Campbell Law School, graduating as valedictorian with the highest GPA in his class. During law school, he was the executive editor of the Campbell Law Review and a championship-winning member of the National Moot Court Team. He was published twice in the Campbell Law Review as a student for writing comments about professional social media accounts and North Carolina trade secrets.
He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism and mass communication from the University of North Carolina. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Carolina Blue (now part of Inside Carolina) and a sportswriter for the ACC Sports Journal, the Fayetteville Observer and various other publications prior to law school.
M&A
Outside General Counsel
Commercial Contracts