Morris, Manning & Martin is a recognized leader in the mergers and acquisitions practice area. We have represented more than 1,000 companies in their corporate transactions throughout the U.S. and abroad. We are generally recognized as the leading law firm in the Southeast in representing high growth companies.

Proven Experience

We counsel companies in transactions that are valued from a few million to many billions of dollars, and we have unique experience representing middle market companies in their M&A transactions. These companies often face unique challenges. For example, we have broad experience in working with venture backed and private equity-owned companies and dealing with the complexities that the various financing structures of these companies pose for M&A transactions. We regularly work with companies that have been operating with understaffed or non-existent legal departments. In those cases, our multidisciplinary, team oriented approach to transactions becomes even more critical. Additionally, we regularly use our deep nationwide contacts with various investors, debt sources and other players in middle market M&A in order to facilitate transactions.

We are result-oriented, efficient and extremely responsive to our clients. We have always been a business-oriented firm. We have worked hard to maintain a cost structure that allows us to staff deals leanly, while still giving us the bandwidth to attack large, fast moving transactions. We hand pick “client teams” for each client and transaction. We do not staff deals with multitudes of junior “attorneys in training” who have little skills or experience. Clients tell us that our approach results in greater efficiency and improved results from what they have experienced elsewhere.

We are forward-thinking. Unique among law firms, we have developed a patent-pending Legal Project Management System that we bring to bear on M&A transactions when appropriate. The Legal Project Management System improves communication, enhances efficiency, and provides transparency in the delivery of our services, while increasing our clients’ involvement and control over the timing and cost of the project.

Specialized Counsel

We are facilitators of transactions, not impediments. We integrate with our clients’ in house teams and drive deals to a successful conclusion. We are never outpaced and are normally in the role of driving the deal. For this reason, we are often the firm of choice for companies that need to accomplish highly complex transactions under nearly impossible deadlines.

Representative Transactions:

• Special regulatory counsel to a public financial services company in its $4.1 billion acquisition of a public financial services company.
• Represented a European telecommunications technology company in a $1.4 billion tender offer for its shares by an international telecommunications company.
• Special regulatory counsel in a $635 million acquisition of a financial services/insurance company.
• Represented a private financial services company in its $530 million reorganization and related financings and asset sales and acquisitions.
• Represented a public broadband telecommunications company in its $255 million acquisition by merger of a private broadband telecommunications company.
• Represented a private Web-services company in its $217 million acquisition of a private Web-services company.
• Represented a private wireless technology company in its $210 million acquisition by merger with a public technology company.
• Represented a private financial services company in its $190 million reorganization and related financings and asset sales and acquisitions.
• Represented a European telecommunications technology company in its $120 million acquisition of a telecommunications technology company.
• Represented a $100 million joint venture of two private financial services companies.
• Represented a European telecommunications technology company in its $85 million acquisition of a telecommunications technology company.
• Represented a European telecommunications technology company in its $80 million acquisition of a telecommunications technology company.
• Represented a public broadband telecommunications company in its $75 million stock acquisition of a private broadband telecommunications company.
• Represented a financial services/insurance company in its $58 million asset sale.
• Represented a private equity firm and management in their $53 million management buy-out of a private specialty textiles company.
• Represented a $47 million joint venture of two private financial services companies.
• Represented a private financial services company in its $42 million sale to a public financial services company.
• Represented a private financial services company in its $36 million acquisition by merger of a public Canadian financial services company.
• Represented a private financial services software company in its $30 million acquisition by a public financial services software company.
• Represented a private trucking services company in its $30 million acquisition by a private trucking and logistics services provider.
• Represented a private financial services company in its $27 million asset sale to a private financial services company.
• Represented private equity investor in its acquisition of an e-commerce retailer.
• Represented a private financial services company in its acquisition by merger with a private financial services company.
• Represented an online publishing company in its acquisition by a public media company.