Michael Hollingsworth, a partner in Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough’s Atlanta office, is co-head of the Firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Mr. Hollingsworth focuses on middle-market corporate transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures. Also, he represents a variety of private equity and hedge funds relative to their formation and investments. His industry experience includes food and beverage, consumer-branded products, healthcare, construction and aggregates, technology and telecommunications, media, manufacturing and distribution, and staffing and business services. Mr. Hollingsworth is one of the transactional lawyers in the multidisciplinary National Healthcare Practice Group and is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association.

In 2005, Mr. Hollingsworth founded the Southeastern M&A Forum, which brings together investment bankers, private equity groups, lenders, transactional accountants, and deal lawyers each fall for a cutting edge mergers and acquisitions conference. He is also involved in organizing the Southeastern Private Equity Summit each June. He is an active member of the Atlanta Venture Forum and the Committee on Negotiated Acquisitions (which is affiliated with the American Bar Association’s Section of Business Law), and he serves on the Market Trends Subcommittee that publishes the annual Deal Points studies of prevailing market terms in private and public mergers and acquisitions.  In 2008, Mr. Hollingsworth was appointed to the Advisory Board of Thomson West Legalworks.

Georgia Trend has recognized Mr. Hollingsworth in “Legal Elite: Georgia’s Most Effective Lawyers.” In addition, the Chambers and Partners USA guide recognizes him as a leader in the field of Corporate/M&A and notes that he "continues to make a name for himself as a highly skilled expert in midmarket M&A transactions."

Mr. Hollingsworth earned his Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, in 1996 from Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law, and an L.L.M. in Taxation in 1999 from the University of Alabama School of Law. He received his undergraduate degree in Political Science from Tulane University. Mr. Hollingsworth is a member of the Cathedral of St. Philip and serves on the membership committee of Ansley Golf Club.