Poyner Spruill LLP

301 Fayetteville Street, Suite 1900
Raleigh, NC 27601
United States

Phone: (919) 783-6400
Fax: (919) 783-1075

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Primary Contact
Deborah E. Sperati
  • Office: (252) 972-7095
  • Cell: (252) 452-1997
Alternate Contact 1
Randall R. Adams
  • Office: (252) 972-7094
  • Cell: (252) 903-5276
  • Fax: (252) 972-7045
Alternate Contact 2
Sarah L DiFranco
  • Office: (704) 342-5330
  • Cell: (704) 615-6187
  • Fax: (704) 342-5264

About this Firm

Poyner Spruill LLP is a full-service North Carolina law firm with a reputation for professional excellence and client service throughout the Southeast. The firm has four offices conveniently located in Raleigh, Charlotte, Rocky Mount, and Southern Pines. Poyner Spruill LLP traces its history back to 1883, and since then has helped countless individuals, organizations, and industries with their legal needs. Our attorneys focus on a wide variety of legal practices, including Litigation, Financial Services, Employment Law, Real Estate Development, Construction Law, Education Law, Trusts and Estates, and several others.

Many of our practice groups send periodic alerts on a myriad of issues that are pertinent to our clients’ business needs. Our mailings are distributed via email and posted to our website’s Thought Leadership page. We invite you and your clients to take advantage of this complimentary news service by signing up through our website.

Areas of Practice

  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Antitrust
  • Appellate Law
  • Auto Liability
  • Banking and Financial Services
  • Business Transactions/Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Construction Law
  • Data Privacy and Security
  • Education
  • Election and Campaign Finance Law
  • Entertainment
  • Family Law
  • Franchise
  • Government Relations
  • Healthcare Law
  • IP and Technology
  • Immigration
  • Insurance Law
  • Labor and Employment
  • Life, Health and Disability
  • Pharmaceutical and Medical Device
  • Premises Liability
  • Professional Liability
  • Public Utilities and Administrative
  • Real Estate
  • Religious Institutions
  • Retail and Hospitality Law
  • School Law
  • Securities Litigation
  • Tax Law
  • Telecommunications
  • Transportation and Logistics
  • Trust and Estates
  • Water Law
  • White Collar Defense
  • Workers' Compensation

Representative Clients

  • AgCarolina Financial, ACA
  • Boddie-Noell Enterprises, Inc.
  • Branch Banking and Trust Company
  • Cincinnati Insurances Companies
  • DexYP Corporation
  • Duke University
  • Eagle Transport Corp.
  • Estes Express Lines
  • First Citizens Bank & Trust Company
  • Golden Corral Corporation
  • Great West Casualty Company
  • Gregory Poole Equipment Company
  • H. D. Supply Company
  • Kaba Ilco Corp.
  • Lawyers Mutual Liability Insurance Co.
  • Leith, Inc.
  • Leviton Manufacturing
  • Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.
  • PNC Bank
  • Regions Bank
  • Wells Fargo Bank
  • XL Catlin

Additional Offices

301 South College Street
Suite 2900
Charlotte, NC 28202
United States

1151 Falls Road
Suite 1000
Rocky Mount, NC 27804
United States

135 West New Hampshire Avenue
Southern Pines, NC 28287
United States

Primary USLAW Practice Group Contacts

Appellate Law

Andrew H. Erteschik

Poyner Spruill LLP
Raleigh, NC
United States
Banking and Financial Services

Deborah E. Sperati

Poyner Spruill LLP
Rocky Mount, NC
United States
Business Litigation and Class Actions

Emily M. Meeker

Poyner Spruill LLP
Raleigh, NC
United States
Business Transactions/Mergers and Acquisitions

David R. Krosner

Poyner Spruill LLP
Raleigh, NC
United States
Complex Tort and Product Liability

Randall R. Adams

Poyner Spruill LLP
Rocky Mount, NC
United States
Construction Law

Matthew C. Bouchard

Poyner Spruill LLP
Raleigh, NC
United States
Data Privacy and Security

Michael E. Slipsky

Poyner Spruill LLP
Raleigh, NC
United States
E-Discovery

Keith H. Johnson

Poyner Spruill LLP
Raleigh, NC
United States
Energy/Environmental

H. Glenn Dunn

Poyner Spruill LLP
Raleigh, NC
United States
Government Relations

Robert E. Hagemann

Poyner Spruill LLP
Raleigh, NC
United States
Healthcare Law

Steven Mansfield Shaber

Poyner Spruill LLP
Raleigh, NC
United States
IP and Technology

Eric P. Stevens

Poyner Spruill LLP
Raleigh, NC
United States
Insurance Law

Randall R. Adams

Poyner Spruill LLP
Rocky Mount, NC
United States
Labor and Employment

Steven A. Rowe

Poyner Spruill LLP
Rocky Mount, NC
United States
Mediation and Arbitration

Daniel G. Cahill

Poyner Spruill LLP
Raleigh, NC
United States
Real Estate

Chad W. Essick

Poyner Spruill LLP
Raleigh, NC
United States
Retail and Hospitality Law

Randall R. Adams

Poyner Spruill LLP
Rocky Mount, NC
United States
Tax Law

Robin E. Pipkin

Poyner Spruill LLP
Raleigh, NC
United States
Transportation and Logistics

Randall R. Adams

Poyner Spruill LLP
Rocky Mount, NC
United States
Trusts and Estates

H. Chalk Broughton, Jr.

Poyner Spruill LLP
Raleigh, NC
United States
White Collar Defense

David W. Long

Poyner Spruill LLP
Raleigh, NC
United States
Workers’ Compensation

Steven A. Rowe

Poyner Spruill LLP
Rocky Mount, NC
United States

Resources & Articles

New leadership named for 2024-25 USLAW Construction Law Practice Group

New leadership named for 2024-25 USLAW Construction Law Practice Group

Posted October 18, 2024

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla., Oct. 18, 2024 - We are pleased to announce that Caryn A. Boisen of Larson ● King, LLP in St. Paul, Minnesota, has been named chair of the USLAW NETWORK Construction Law Practice Group. Boisen follows Joseph F. Moore of Hanson Bridgett LLP, who served as chair of the practice… Continue Reading

Poyner Spruill presents Resolution and Memorial honoring Cheslie Kryst

Poyner Spruill presents Resolution and Memorial honoring Cheslie Kryst

Posted November 10, 2023

Tate Ogburn a partner at Poyner Spruill LLP in Charlotte, North Carolina, presented during a joint session of the federal and state courts in North Carolina and ratified by the U.S. District Court for Western North Carolina and the North Carolina Superior Courts in a memorial honoring the life and… Continue Reading

Poyner Spruill LLP Advises Client in $750M Sale

Poyner Spruill LLP Advises Client in $750M Sale

Posted August 26, 2021

In the spring of 2021, the affiliated owners and operators of healthcare facilities based in the southeast completed a sale of assets in a transaction valued in excess of $750 million. Poyner Spruill LLP was lead counsel to sellers in the transaction. Poyner Spruill LLP’s team was led by partner… Continue Reading

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