Adams and Reese Managing Partner Gif Thornton and Partner Cynthia Mitchell Barnett have been named among the Nashville Business Journal (NBJ) 2017 “Best of the Bar” honorees. The “Best of the Bar” awards honor Middle Tennessee’s leading lawyers and corporate counsel.
Thornton was listed in Government and Barnett was listed in Banking and Finance. The Adams and Reese partners are among the lawyers and corporate counsel who were designated as the “Best of the Bar” and recognized in a special Nashville Business Journal print publication and online. The honorees will be celebrated at a cocktail reception in July.
The “Best of the Bar” winners are determined through a two-month public nomination period followed by a closed peer voting process. The process is designed to identify the nominees who are truly best of the bar, according to their peers.
Gif Thornton has served as Managing Partner for Adams and Reese since March of 2015. Previously, he served as legislative counsel to a number of businesses, trade associations, and governmental entities with interests before Tennessee state and local government. He has been named as Best Lawyers “Lawyer of the Year” in Nashville for both Government Relations and Insurance Law.
Cindy Barnett is a senior public finance partner who played a key role in adding and establishing the firm’s Nashville office. Barnett serves as bond counsel, issuer’s counsel, and underwriter's counsel. She assists domestic and foreign financial institutions in providing credit and liquidity facilities to support municipal obligations. She advises major public organizations and has been involved in several landmark financings. Additionally, she helps nonprofit organizations, industrial development groups, and sports and convention interests navigate through the legal issues they encounter.