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Teri Lynn McMahon

Partner


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.

Representative Experience

  • Counsel to one of the largest private equity funds in the Southeast.
  • Counsel to U.S. subsidiaries of a French public company focuses on performance and specialty minerals.
  • Counsel to a variety of companies involved in acquisition or roll-up strategies.


Publications
October 2007
"Influenza in the Debt Capital Markets," Atlanta Business Magazine, October 2007.

Teri Lynn McMahon

One Atlantic Center
1201 West Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA 30309-3424
Phone: 404-881-7266
Fax: 404-253-8190

Education

  • University of Michigan
    (J.D., 1987)
  • Duke University
    (B.A., 1984)

Admitted to Practice

  • Georgia