From my professional  bio - Mr. Mitchell is a partner in the Firm’s Corporate Group. He focuses his practice on corporate transactions and working with emerging and established businesses to provide strategic, growth-oriented legal advice, with practical in-house experience and public sector awareness. He has served as lead counsel on numerous venture capital financings, private equity raises, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and complex limited liability operating agreements.

Mr. Mitchell served on the staff of Governor Gerald L. Baliles, focusing on economic development issues and has served as a key political advisor to many Virginia elected officials including former Governor and current United States Senator Mark R. Warner.

He has also served as a director and advisor for numerous business and civic entities, including several privately held companies. Governor Warner appointed him to the Virginia State Board for Community Colleges. He currently serves as President of the Blacksburg Country Club, President of the Virginia Public Safety Foundation and Chairman of the Virginia Economic Bridge.

 Mr. Mitchell graduated with a B.S. in Accounting from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1986.  Although he sat for and passed his CPA exam on the first try, he is not a practicing CPA. 

Mr. Mitchell recieved his law degree from the University of Richmond in 1992 and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review.

Mr. Mitchell is married and has one elementary school age daughter.