Anthony Fox’s clients derived direct benefit from his vast knowledge of North Carolina’s state, municipal, and public-private partnership legal landscape. With more than 30 years’ experience representing municipalities in North Carolina – both as an assistant city attorney and as a town attorney – from Wilmington to Asheville and from his vast experience on state boards and commissions, Anthony knew how to solve his clients’ business problems. He advised municipalities, school boards, public sector clients, regulated industries, and corporate clients before administrative bodies and all levels of the North Carolina state court system, federal district courts, and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. He was also admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court.
As a former assistant city attorney, current town attorney, and as an attorney who handles municipalities’ overflow work, Anthony was actively involved in the issues facing cities and towns, from defending their positions on complex legal matters like annexation, zoning, construction, and land use disputes, to shaping public-private developments or structuring municipal acquisitions. This work included acquiring facilities, developing agreements and loan documents, getting environmental and engineering approvals, and securing funding. He also assisted municipalities and regulated industries with eminent domain and land condemnation actions. Clients trusted Anthony to handle their most sensitive internal investigations too. He was adept at shaping strategy to achieve positive results and skilled at effective messaging.
Because of his experience in the public sector, Anthony provided companies involved in public-private partnerships with unparalleled legal representation – both for transactional matters and litigation. Anthony assisted companies in structuring complex public-private deals that included elements of land use, zoning, and annexations. He also provided advice on economic development matters and incentives. His clients included corporations, developers, municipalities, and regulated industries. Anthony provided his clients with a sense of being connected by giving them access to his 30 years of vast experience and to key individuals at the local and state levels. In this way, he was often able to use creative strategies to help the public and private sectors come together to achieve their desired results.
Anthony was active in his community, having had local and state appointments from governors and mayors of both major political parties. He was a past president of the North Carolina Association of Municipal Attorneys and remained an active member in this organization. He also served as the sole attorney on the Federal Communication Commission’s Intergovernmental Advisory Committee and was appointed to the City of Charlotte Airport Commission.