Teri McMahon co-chairs both the firm's Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Quality Team and the Private Equity Practice. Ms. McMahon emphasizes mergers and acquisitions, private equity representation, corporate finance, leveraged buyouts and general corporate law in her practice. She is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers magazine and Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business for her corporate and mergers and acquisitions expertise. In the 2007 edition of the Chambers publication, Ms. McMahon is described as a lawyer who is “diligent, always on top of the facts” and who “does a very good job of covering all the issues.” Additionally, she was recently named to the BTI Transactions All-Star Team in a survey of key M&A decision-makers at large and Fortune 1000 organizations.

Ms. McMahon has had extensive experience in acquisitions, divestitures, public and private company mergers, and the general corporate management of businesses, including those involving portfolio companies controlled by one of the largest private investment funds in the Southeast. She negotiates and drafts purchase and sale agreements, shareholders and employment agreements, and other documents typical in management-led buyouts, in addition to representing both large public corporations and small family-owned businesses in complex acquisitions and sales. Ms. McMahon has spoken at legal and business seminars on such topics as due diligence, the use of earn-outs, negotiated acquisitions and corporate governance issues. She frequently speaks at legal and business seminars on the negotiation of deals and other topics involving mergers and acquisitions.

Ms. McMahon received her J.D. in 1987 from the University of Michigan and her undergraduate degrees in 1984 from Duke University, majoring in economics and public policy studies. She is a member of the State Bar of Georgia and the Atlanta and American Bar Associations, focusing on the business or corporate law sections of those organizations. She currently chairs the board of the Business and Finance Section of the Atlanta Bar Association and is active in a number of non-profit organizations, presently serving on the boards of the Center for the Visually Impaired and the Atlanta chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth, as well as serving on the Atlanta chapter of the United Way Women of Tocqueville Cabinet. She formerly served on the business section of the DeKalb Medical Center Foundation.