Michael E. Hollingsworth II > Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP > Atlanta, United States > Lawyer Profile
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP Offices
ATLANTIC STATION
201 17TH STREET NW, SUITE 1700
ATLANTA GA 30363
GEORGIA
United States
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Michael E. Hollingsworth II
Position
Partner
Career
Michael Hollingsworth is co-head of Nelson Mullins’ Mergers & Acquisitions Group and its Investment Management Group. He focuses on middle-market corporate transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures.
He represents 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.
Languages
English
Memberships
Memberships:
- Managing Partner for Nelson Mullins’ Atlanta Office
- Serves on Nelson Mullins’ Executive Committee
- 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
- 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
Education
Samford University Cumberland School of Law ,JD ,magna cum laude (1996), University of Alabama School of Law, LLM, Taxation (1999), Tulane University, BA, Political Science
Lawyer Rankings
United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
The ‘exceptionally attentive, responsive and reliable’ team at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP acts for a roster of clients that includes private equity funds as well as American arms of international companies across industry sectors including healthcare, technology and banking. Demonstrating the firm’s solid footprint on the East Coast, practice leaders Colleen Pleasant Kline, Gus Dixon, and are Michael Hollingsworth are based in Baltimore, Columbia, and Atlanta, respectively. Atlanta-based William Ching has longstanding experience handling the buying and selling of private businesses. Also in Atlanta, Brian Galison handles transactional work for a range of companies in sectors such as technology and manufacturing.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
Firm Rankings
- Industry focus > Education
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Transport > Rail and road: litigation and regulation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Government > Government relations
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Real estate > Real estate
- Healthcare > Service providers
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate