MIAMI – Miami senior associate Franco Furmanski has won The M&A Advisor’s 14th Annual Emerging Leaders Award.

Winners will be honored at a gala in New York City in September.

Furmanski focuses on representing domestic and international companies and their principals in connection with a wide range of transactions, primarily merger and acquisition and financing transactions, including project finance, syndicated loans, and debt and securities offerings. He serves in an outside general counsel capacity and advises clients in connection with their strategic investment opportunities, corporate restructurings, and general commercial matters, such as licensing, distribution, employment, dispute resolution and real estate leasing.

The Emerging Leaders Awards were established as the ‘40 Under 40 Awards’ in 2010 to recognize and celebrate the achievements of young M&A, Financing and Turnaround professionals who have reached a significant level of success and made notable contributions to their industry and community, according to the founder of The M&A Advisor.

Winners were selected from a pool of hundreds of candidates after being evaluated by a panel of independent judges.

Since 1998, The M&A Advisor has been recognizing achievement, providing thought leadership, and connecting elite professionals in turnarounds and restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, and financing and private investment transactions both domestically in the United States and internationally.

Established in 1897, Nelson Mullins is an AmLaw 100 firm of more than 1,000 attorneys, policy advisors, and professionals, with 33 offices in 17 states and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.nelsonmullins.com.