Michael Hollingsworth, managing partner of 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.

Experience

• Represents private equity and hedge funds relative to their formation, operations and investments
• Industry experience includes food and beverage, consumer-branded products, healthcare, construction and aggregates, technology and telecommunications, media, manufacturing and distribution, and business services
• A transactional lawyer in the Firm's multidisciplinary National Healthcare Practice Group

Awards and Honors

• The International Who's Who of Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyers (which ranks the top 614 M&A lawyers worldwide)
• The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers
• Super Lawyers
• Georgia Trend's “Legal Elite: Georgia’s Most Effective Lawyers”
• Chambers & Partners, recognized as a leader in Corporate/M&A
• Among 84 attorneys nationwide named by corporate counsel as the most client-service oriented in the fields of securities, mergers and acquisitions, and transactional law as reported by BTI Consulting Group (2012)

Leadership Positions

• Founded the Southeastern M&A Forum (2005)
  • Brings together strategic buyers, investment bankers, private equity groups, lenders, accountants, and deal lawyers each fall for a mergers and acquisitions conference
• Advisory Board, Thomson Reuters - West Professional Development (Appointed, 2008)
• Advisory Board, Cumberland School of Law at Samford University (Appointed by the Dean, 2011)

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Health Lawyers Association
• Association for Corporate Growth (ACG)
• Southern Capital Forum
• Mergers and Acquisitions Committee, American Bar Association
  • Committee publishes the Deal Points studies on prevailing terms in M&A transactions