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Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
MERIDIAN, 17TH FLOOR
1320 MAIN STREET
COLUMBIA, SC 29201
United States

Position

Partner

Career

Gus M. Dixon practices in the areas of securities law, corporate law, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, outsourcing, special litigation and corporate investigations, and technology law at Nelson Mullins. He is a co-leader of the Firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions Group and is the Chair of the Firm’s Opinion Committee.

Languages

English

Memberships

Memberships:

  • Member of the Subcommittee on Legal Opinions for the Corporate, Banking, and Securities Law Section of the South Carolina Bar
  • Former Chair of the Corporate, Banking, and Securities Law Section of the South Carolina Bar
  • Former Adjunct Professor of Legal Writing at the University of South Carolina School of Law (1998–2002)
  • Board Member of the Nelson Mullins Center for Professionalism at the University of South Carolina School of Law

Leadership:

  • Co-leader of Nelson Mullins’ Mergers and Acquisitions Group
  • Chair of the Firm’s Opinion Committee
  • Former Chair of the Firm’s Marketing and Planning Committee

Education

University of South Carolina School of Law, JD; University of Virginia

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.