Our clients rely on the Corporate Practice at Morris, Manning & Martin for full-spectrum legal representation. With over thirty-five years of service to businesses throughout the U.S. and abroad, we have developed operations and best practices to efficiently and comprehensively provide counsel for virtually every corporate need.  As a result, our Corporate Practice has been recognized in Chambers USA 2010 as a leading corporate practice.

Key Services

• Choice of entity & entity formation
• Corporate finance
• Corporate governance
• Emerging markets
• Energy & project finance
• Funding
• International transactions
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Partnerships & joint ventures
• Private equity transactions
• Real estate capital markets
• Reporting requirements
• Restructuring
• Securities
• Stockholder matters
• Strategic alliances
• Tax
• Technology transactions

Serving the Spectrum

Our clients know that Morris, Manning & Martin stands for quality and long-term commitment, unparalleled client services, and responsive, intelligent advice.  Whether advising a start-up on the benefits of different business entities, a developing firm on funding and financing options, or a mature firm on acquisitions, reporting requirements or divestitures, our clients rely on Morris, Manning & Martin’s consistent best-in-class results to help them stay one-step-ahead.

Recognition

• Ranked as a leading national firm for mergers, acquisitions & buyouts (sub-$500m market) (Legal 500 U.S.)
• Ranked as a leading national firm for public offerings (Thomson-Reuters)
• Ranked as a leading national firm for REIT offerings (Thomson-Reuters)
• Ranked as a leading national firm for venture capital financing (Private Equity Analyst)
• Ranked as a leading corporate firm in Georgia by Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business
• Ranked as a leading intellectual property firm in Georgia by Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business

Mergers and Acquisitions

Our industry experience is exceptionally broad, covering virtually every significant regulated and unregulated industry.  In just over five years, we have handled nearly 200 transactions with a combined market value of over $10 billion and an average deal size of over $50 million.  We handle negotiated purchases and divestitures by public and private companies, tender offers, restructurings, spin-offs, leveraged buy-outs, and “going-private” transactions.  Our lawyers advise clients on structuring various takeover defense mechanisms, including the adoption of special charter and by-law provisions, shareholder right plans, multiple classes of voting stock and similar devices.

Emerging Business & Technology

We have historically represented entrepreneurs in a wide range of legal matters and focused on the needs of biotechnology, computer hardware and software, green-industry, retailing, distribution and other emerging growth companies.  We represent over 300 technology clients throughout the U.S. and have handled over 350 venture capital financings with a combined market value of over $1.5 billion.  We are sensitive to the business objectives and concerns of growing companies, as such our lawyers integrate needed legal services related to entity structuring, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, stock options and employment issues, intellectual property, licensing distribution, product regulation and international law.

MMM Tech Law & Business Report

Securities

We represent issuers and underwriters in the full range of public and private offerings of securities.  Within the past decade, we have served as counsel in initial public offerings that raised over $12.5 billion and as deal counsel on over 50 additional public offerings and 144A offerings with an aggregate value in excess of $20 billion.  We also represent issuers in connection with their ongoing public reporting obligations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.  Our Securities Practice has a well-earned reputation for creativity and efficiency, and for fostering effective working relationships with securities regulators.

Real Estate Capital Markets

Our lawyers have assisted clients in raising over $25 billion for deployment in real estate ventures. We represent real estate developers and operating companies, financial institutions, pension funds, institutional investors, investment advisors and asset managers with respect to their real estate investments, both in the U.S. and abroad. Our investment and development work touches every real estate asset class, including affordable housing, brownfield, condominium, hotel, industrial/distribution, mixed-use, multi-family, office, resort, student housing, timber and retail.

Finance

We have a broad finance practice (including non-traditional credit areas), which includes representing agents, participants and sole lenders and borrowers in connection with traditional bank financings, project financings, structured financings, real estate financings and securitization transactions, as well as corporate finance transactions and derivatives transactions.

Tax

The Tax Practice is an integral part of the Corporate Practice that aims to develop and implement tax-efficient structuring to satisfy client objectives.  Our tax lawyers play a key role in the federal, state, local and international tax aspects of the firm’s corporate transactions.

Industry Savvy

Through our flexible interdisciplinary approach, we can structure comprehensive legal solutions that address the issues our clients face, from the everyday to the unusual.  With each engagement, we apply a wealth of industry experience and resources stretching deep into each business category.  Clients large and small, public and private, rely on the skill and understanding of lawyers at Morris, Manning & Martin to keep them one-step-ahead.