Practice Experience

• Wayne Shortridge has served as general counsel to a number of companies, and has extensive experience in the electronic and telecommunications industry as well as experience in the legal areas of corporate governance, including Sarbanes-Oxley matters and advice to corporate Board special committees, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and credit facilities to companies.
• Mr. Shortridge has been engaged in the private practice of law for more than forty years.  During his professional career he has represented companies from the start-up stage through their status as Fortune 500 companies.
• Mr. Shortridge serves as Lead Director of Sanmina-SCI Corporation, a Fortune 400 company which is a lead multi-national, diversified electronics manufacturer.  He is also Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee and Chair of the Compensation Committee.
• Mr. Shortridge is the Office Managing Shareholder for Carlton Fields' Atlanta office. 

Professional and Civic Activities

• American Bar Association
• State Bar of Georgia
  Member, Business Law Section
• Atlanta Bar Association
  Member, Business Law Section

BAR ADMISSIONS

• Georgia

Background

• Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker
  Managing Partner, Atlanta Office
• Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy
  Managing Partner

Education

• Harvard Law School (L.L.B, 1963)
• Purdue University (B.A., 1960)