Garner Meads of Vivint Smart Home Honored with a 2021 Utah Business Corporate Counsel Award
Vivint Smart Home (NYSE: VVNT) announced that Garner Meads, vice president and associate general counsel, received the 2021 Utah Business Corporate Counsel Award. This award recognizes outstanding in-house legal professionals in Utah's business sector. Meads, who joined Vivint in 2016, plays a key role in managing strategic partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and SEC compliance. His leadership is credited with establishing a solid legal framework that supported the company’s SPAC merger, enabling Vivint to become publicly traded in January 2020.
- Garner Meads awarded the 2021 Utah Business Corporate Counsel Award, enhancing Vivint's reputation.
- Meads' contributions include managing strategic partnerships and SEC compliance, pivotal for business operations.
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Vivint Smart Home, Inc. (NYSE: VVNT), a leading smart home company, today announced that Garner Meads, vice president and associate general counsel, is a 2021 Utah Business Corporate Counsel Award winner. The annual Utah Business Corporate Counsel Awards recognize exceptional in-house counselors who serve Utah’s businesses, nonprofits and other private-sector organizations.
“Garner’s former life as an NCAA Division I basketball player speaks to his nature as the consummate team player and leader,” said Shawn Lindquist, chief legal officer at Vivint Smart Home. “Garner helps us win together by partnering with his business counterparts to effectively and ethically pursue initiatives that increase our competitive advantage, which makes him an invaluable member of the Vivint team.”
Meads joined Vivint in 2016 after nearly two years at Vivint Solar, a separate sister company. Earlier in his career, he worked for Vinson & Elkins LLP and Sidley Austin LLP.
Today, Meads helps manage Vivint’s strategic partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and SEC compliance and reporting initiatives. His contributions have helped lay a solid legal foundation to achieve some of the company’s most important objectives, including Vivint’s SPAC merger to become a public company in January 2020.
Utah Business recognized the winners at an awards ceremony in Salt Lake City and featured them on the Utah Business website and in the magazine’s April print issue.
About Vivint Smart Home
Vivint Smart Home is a leading smart home company in North America. Vivint delivers an integrated smart home system with in-home consultation, professional installation and support delivered by its Smart Home Pros, as well as 24/7 customer care and monitoring. Dedicated to redefining the home experience with intelligent products and services, Vivint serves more than 1.7 million customers throughout the U.S. and Canada. For more information, visit www.vivint.com.
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