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John Yates

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A pioneer in technology law, Partner John C. Yates launched the firm’s technology practice more than 35 years ago and has practiced exclusively in this area since that time. Under John’s leadership, the firm’s technology practice has represented more than 1,000 tech companies and offers comprehensive legal and corporate services to start-ups, growing tech companies, and investors. He is a prolific author and leading voice in technology law, has been cited at the U.S. Supreme Court, published in ...

Kara Adler

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Kara E. Adler is an Associate in the firm's Commercial Real Estate Development & Finance Practice. Ms. Adler focuses her practice on the representation of clients engaged in the acquisition, development, disposition, financing and leasing of commercial real estate. She is experienced in all phases of commercial real estate transactions across multiple assets classes, as well as joint ventures. Ms. Adler graduated from Emory University School of Law, where she was the Managing Editor of Emory International Law Review, ...

Tara Adyanthaya

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Tara L. Adyanthaya is Special Counsel in the Firm’s Healthcare Practice. Ms. Adyanthaya represents hospital systems, physician practice groups, and other healthcare providers in a range of regulatory and business matters. Tara’s areas of expertise include: Corporate Governance (Hospital Medical Staff Bylaws) Credentialing and Peer Review Issues Arising in the Patient-Family-Provider Relationship Advising Hospital Committees EMTALA Healthcare Investigations and Internal Reviews Litigation Medical Ethics Patient Care/Hospital Operation Issues Decision Making Capacity, Patient Consents End of Life Issues ...

Scott Allen

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Scott L. Allen is Co-Chair of the MMM Private Equity Practice. He focuses primarily on representing private equity funds and their portfolio companies in corporate transactions, including platform acquisitions, bolt-on acquisitions, sell-side transactions and debt and equity financings. Scott also represents venture capital-backed and founder-owned businesses in a wide range of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. For many of his clients, he also serves as outside general counsel, providing legal support across the organization and coordinating ...

Bob Alpert

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Bob Alpert is a Partner in the Commercial, Class Action and Products Liability Litigation Practices. Mr. Alpert has represented clients in a wide variety of complex, high exposure litigation matters throughout the United States, including the following: National coordinating and lead trial counsel for national manufacturer in connection with its defense of public nuisance and personal injury claims arising from alleged exposure to lead paint. National coordinating counsel for one of the country’s largest retailers in connection with its ...

Tracy Brown

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Tracy Heard Brown is a Senior Environmental Specialist in the firm’s Environmental and Sustainability Practices. Ms. Brown performs technical evaluations and risk analyses of environmentally-impacted properties for the firm’s environmental and real estate groups. She serves as a liaison between clients and environmental consultants and provides project oversight. She also conducts environmental research into various state programs to determine the requirements and appropriate steps to enter voluntary cleanup and brownfield programs and to reach regulatory closure. Ms. Brown ...

Paul Arne

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Paul Arne advises clients in legal and business issues involving computer technology and the internet, with a special emphasis on complex transactions and difficult legal issues. His practice focuses on the law and business of technology, privacy, security and revenue recognition worldwide: when a lot of money is on the line, when the issues are complex, when the business relationships are strategic, or when it’s a bet-the-company transaction. Paul also draws on his many years of experience to serve ...

Peggy Bailey

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Peggy J. Bailey is Of Counsel in the firm’s Tax, Exempt Organizations and Wealth Planning Practices. Ms. Bailey concentrates her practice in the areas of estate planning, probate, estate administration, wealth transfer and protection, and charitable planning. Before entering the private practice of law, she was a trust officer with a large bank.

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Commercial Finance

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Morris, Manning & Martin has a broad Commercial Finance Practice (including non-traditional credit areas) representing banks, investment funds and other financial institutions. We assist our clients in transactions providing debt capital, including syndicated and single-lender senior secured and unsecured credit facilities, real estate and other asset-based financings, mezzanine loans and other forms of junior financing, agency lending, government guaranteed loans, traditional bank financings and other types of debt financing. Additionally, our lawyers assist Commercial Finance clients with workouts, restructuring and ...

Construction

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At Morris, Manning & Martin, we understand the technical, business and legal issues inherent in the multidimensional construction process. Our Construction lawyers assure that developments proceed with our clients’ best interests in mind. Cross-Function Representation Construction projects involve a variety of parties, each having a different role in the permitting, procurement, design, implementation, completion and operation of each project. Lawyers in our Construction Practice represent each of the participants in the process, including owners, developers, lenders, bonding companies, construction managers, ...

Corporate

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Our clients rely on the Corporate Practice at Morris, Manning & Martin for full-spectrum legal representation. With 40 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 as a leading corporate practice for many years.

Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy

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At the most troubled time for a business, the Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy Practice at Morris, Manning & Martin works to attain the best solution that meets our clients’ goals and expectations. Legal options range from structuring workout financing to counseling credit committees to seeking recourse in court. Our excellent service and skills are evidenced by the practice’s ranking in Chambers USA, a leading legal services ranking publication.

Employment

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Morris, Manning & Martin's Employment Practice understands that the most valuable asset a company has is its employees. We also understand that effective management of human resources allows a business to achieve its objectives. We try to understand our clients’ goals in order to provide effective employment advice. With business priorities clearly in mind, we help clients effectively manage their human resources. Our excellent service and skills are evidenced by the practice’s ranking in Chambers USA, a leading ...

Environmental

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Morris, Manning & Martin’s Environmental Practice develops mechanisms through which environmentally impacted properties can be purchased, financed, redeveloped and sold in an increasingly challenging market. Our excellent service and skills are evidenced by the practice’s ranking in Chambers USA, a leading legal services ranking publication.

Healthcare

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The Healthcare Practice is highly regulated and rapidly changing. Individuals and companies that do business in this arena require legal counsel with a hands-on understanding of the unique issues of the healthcare environment and constructive solutions to their problems. Our Healthcare lawyers practice exclusively in this area and, consequently, have in-depth expertise helping clients properly structure their business relationships and transactions, comply with laws and regulations, and achieve successful resolutions in civil, criminal and administrative proceedings. Our excellent service and ...

Securities & Corporate Governance

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MMM utilizes the deep experience of our cross-industry, interdisciplinary securities team to guide companies through the complex process of raising capital in the public and private markets. We are practical, business-focused capital markets lawyers who not only navigate the legal complexities of a deal, but also strive to understand our clients’ unique goals, maintaining a focus on achieving their branding, positioning and transactional objectives. We also have extensive experience counseling public company clients and their boards on all aspects of ...

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Facebook v. Duguid – The U.S. Supreme Court Weighs in on

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The U.S. Supreme Court finally resolved a longstanding disagreement in the lower courts over what constitutes an automatic telephone dialing system under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA). The question, presented in Facebook Inc. v. Duguid, 141 S.Ct. 1163 (2021), was whether Facebook should be deemed to have used an autodialer under the TCPA because its platform has a security feature that sends users text messages to confirm authorized access to their accounts. The named plaintiff argued that Facebook's ...

Leveraging Uncertainty to Craft Creative Leasing Strategies

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The pandemic has upended the commercial leasing world, but there's no shortage of innovative solutions from both landlords and tenants. Commercial landlords and tenants are no strangers to changing economic cycles. Adjusting lease agreements to different circumstances is one of the main factors in negotiating favorable terms for both parties. But the pandemic has thrown a wrench into the status quo, prompting industry players to realign their strategies and think up creative solutions. Flexibility is the new buzzword with ...

Shuttered Venue Operators Grant

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The Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) is a new federally-funded program providing emergency assistance for eligible venues adversely affected by COVID-19. The program, administered by the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Office of Disaster Assistance, will offer over $16 billion in grants to shuttered venues, providing economic relief to eligible entities. This legal update summarizes the requirements and additional information related to the grant application process. ELIGIBILITYEligible entities include live venue operators and promoters, theatrical producers, live performing arts organization operators, ...

U.S. Treasury’s New List of Currency Manipulators Does Not Include China

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The United States did not designate China as a currency manipulator on Friday, as the Treasury Department released its first foreign exchange report of President Joe Biden's administration. China remained on the watch list over its currency practices. The report, which is typically issued twice a year, said: "China's failure to publish foreign exchange intervention and broader lack of transparency around key features of its exchange rate mechanism and the activities of state-owned banks warrant close monitoring of ...

Will Trump-era CVD Currency Undervaluation Rule Hold up Under Biden?

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A Trump-era rule allowing the Commerce Department to treat currency undervaluation as a subsidy in countervailing duty proceedings leaves the U.S. open to a deluge of petitions -- potentially against some U.S. allies -- staked on weak claims, Brady Mills tells Inside U.S. Trade. Mills said in an interview last week that the new administration’s view of the rule remains unclear, but contended an affirmative final ruling by Commerce invoking the modified regulation could set off ...

PPP Application Deadline Extended

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Yesterday, March 30, the president signed the PPP Extension Act of 2021 (H.R. 1799) extending the PPP application submission deadline from March 31, 2021, until May 31, 2021, giving borrowers more time to access the funds. The extension applies to both first and second draw PPP loans. The law also allows lenders to submit the PPP applications to the SBA until June 30, 2021, providing a buffer for lenders to work through any errors in the current process. The PPP Extension Act of 2021 is separate from the recently ...

MMM One of AJC’s 2021 Top Workplaces

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Atlanta (March 2021) – For the eighth year in a row, Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP is ranked as one of Atlanta’s Top Workplaces by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper. Every year, the AJC and employment research and consulting firm Energage surveys people who work at companies from the 17-county Metro Atlanta area. The questions cover aspects of workplace culture including: Alignment – strong company values, direction and cooperation Coaching – support and mentoring Connection – meaningfulness, appreciation and reaching full potential Engagement – productivity/motivation, ...

SE Tech Podcast | Ep.173 - Mark Buffington, Managing Partner and Paul Judge, Managing Partner of Panoramic Ventures

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SE Tech Podcast - Hosted by MMM Tech Law · Ep. 173 - Mark Buffington, Managing Partner and Paul Judge, Managing Partner of Panoramic Ventures In this episode, we speak with Mark Buffington, Managing Partner and Paul Judge, Managing Partner of Panoramic Ventures. Panoramic Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Atlanta that takes a “wider-view” approach to investing by targeting the Southeast and Midwest and placing a focus on diverse founders and university startups. Panoramic opens new doors for overlooked ...

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