Awards & Honors

Recognized in Chambers USA as a leading law firm in the following areas:
- Banking & Finance
- Bankruptcy & Restructuring
- Corporate
- Environmental
- Healthcare
- Intellectual Property
- Investment Funds/Venture Capital
- Investment Funds/Real Estate Investment Trusts
- Labor & Employment
- Litigation
- Real Estate
- Tax
Listed in Legal 500 as a leading law firm in the following areas:
- Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
- Mergers & Acquisitions - Middle Market
- Venture Capital and Emerging Companies
- Real Estate
- Domestic Tax - East Coast
Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst ranked Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP as a Top 50 law firm for its number of Venture Capital and Private Equity deals.
Recognized as a top 100 patent prosecution provider in the newly released Patent Buddy® TOPFirm.
Seven Morris, Manning & Martin attorneys are included in The Best Lawyers in America 2010:
- Frank B. Bazzel (Real Estate)
- Charles R. “Chuck” Beaudrot (Tax)
- David W. Cranshaw (Banking)
- John P. Fry (IP)
- John G. “Sonny” Morris (Real Estate)
- Gerald L. Pouncey (Environmental)
- Andrew C. Williams (Real Estate)
Named one of the Georgia Trend Magazine's Best Places to Work.
Insurance attorney Jim Maxson has been honored by Life Settlement Review as one of The Top Ten Most Influential People in Life Settlements for 2009.
Partner Mac Hunter is a member of the 2010 class of inductees into the Gate City Bar Association Hall of Fame.
Managing Partner Louise Wells was named one of Atlanta's 2010 Women of Excellence by Business to Business magazine.
Received first place award by the National Legal Marketing Association (LMA) for Online Interactive Marketing Tools.

Firm Profile

Fast Facts

Corporate: MMM is ranked among the leading law firms in the U.S. for public securities offerings. In the past year, we have handled five IPOs with a combined market value of over $8.8 billion.
Corporate: MMM is nationally ranked among the Top 50 leading law firms for venture capital financing. In the past two years, we have averaged over 50 VC transactions per year.
Corporate: MMM is a Top 10 firm for public offerings in multiple industry areas.
Employment: Over the last 20+ years, MMM has secured outright victories (not settlements) in 32 cases.
Employment: MMM's winning streak continues for a leading healthcare system! No losses in 17 years for employment client.
Environmental: MMM was lead environmental and real estate counsel on the largest brownfield redevelopment in U.S. history.
Green: MMM is real estate and construction counsel to a leading Southeast bank for the nation's first green affordable housing project.
Healthcare: MMM serves as sole healthcare and regulatory compliance counsel for the largest consortium of hospitals in Georgia.
Insurance: In the past two years, MMM has provided regulatory counsel for insurance restructuring transactions valued at over $6 billion.
Intellectual Property: On a per capita basis, MMM files more patents than any other firm in the Southeast and is among the most active in the U.S.
Intellectual Property: MMM represents seven of the top 30 research universities and their technology incubators in the U.S.
Intellectual Property Litigation: More than 50% of the cases handled by MMM's IP litigators are located in jurisdictions outside of the Southeast.
International: With nearly 10 percent of our professional staff fluent in Chinese, MMM has one of the largest Asia-focused practices in the Southeast.
International: MMM obtained one in every ten U.S. patents filed by China-based companies.
Litigation: MMM handled the largest trade secret case in Florida history.
Litigation: MMM serves as lead national Products Liability Trial Counsel for a Fortune 50 company, obtaining seven consecutive defense jury verdicts.
Real Estate: MMM has represented clients in 39 of the 50 U.S. states and 4 of the 10 Canadian provinces.
Real Estate: MMM represents the largest private multi-family developer in the U.S.
Real Estate: Including real estate capital markets, MMM has handled nearly $50 billion in transactions, financings, joint ventures and public offerings for real estate clients.
Real Estate Capital Markets: MMM is primary corporate counsel for over a third of the publicly offered non-listed REIT market.
Real Estate Capital Markets: In the past three years, MMM has closed over $13 billion in real estate capital markets transactions/offerings.
Tax: MMM wrote the law on LLCs.
Timberland MMM has the largest Timberland Investments & Forestry Products practice in the Southeast and among the largest in the U.S. MMM recently represented a U.S. TIMO in the acquisition of 31,000 hectares in Brazil for $106 million.