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. He also represents a variety of private equity and hedge funds relative to their formation, operations and investments. His industry experience includes food and beverage, consumer-branded products, healthcare, construction and aggregates, technology and telecommunications, media, manufacturing and distribution, and business services. Mr. Hollingsworth is one of the transactional lawyers in the Firm's multidisciplinary National Healthcare Practice Group and is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association. 

Prior to joining the Firm in 2006, Mr. Hollingsworth was a partner at Kilpatrick Stockton (now Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton), an Atlanta-based AmLaw 100 firm. 

In 2005, Mr. Hollingsworth founded the Southeastern M&A Forum which brings together strategic buyers, investment bankers, private equity groups, lenders, accountants, and deal lawyers each fall for a cutting edge mergers and acquisitions conference.  He is an active member of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), the Southern Capital Forum, and the ABA's Mergers and Acquisitions Committee (which publishes the Deal Points studies on prevailing terms in M&A transactions). In 2008, Mr. Hollingsworth was appointed to the Advisory Board of Thomson Reuters (West Professional Development). 

Mr. Hollingsworth has been recognized in 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; and Georgia Trend's “Legal Elite: Georgia’s Most Effective Lawyers.” In addition, Chambers & Partners recognizes him as a leader in Corporate/M&A.

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 where he is an usher. He also serves on the membership committee of Ansley Golf Club and is on the board of trustees of St. Andrew's-Sewanee School, an Episcopal boarding and day college preparatory school in Sewanee, Tennessee. In 2011, Mr. Hollingsworth was appointed by the Dean to the Advisory Board of Cumberland School of Law at Samford University.