Ian Calhoun

• Representing wealth management and investment advisory firms in acquisition and corporate reorganization transactions.
• Represented a leading payment processor in acquisitions totaling over $1.1 billion.
• Represented a leading U.S. merchant acquirer in multiple cross-border joint ventures and portfolio acquisitions.
• Represented a leading fuel card payments company in acquisitions totaling over $900 million.
• Represented a top-three U.S. airline and various national merchants in negotiation of their co-branded and private label credit card programs.

Ian Calhoun is a member of Alston & Bird’s Financial Services & Products Group. Ian advises wealth management, investment advisory, and financial services firms, as well as payments and banking clients on a range of transactional matters, focusing primarily on mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, and outside corporate counsel.

Ian has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America^® in the Mergers & Acquisitions Law category.

Ian earned his J.D., cum laude, in 2013 from the University of Georgia School of Law, where he served as a symposium editor for the Georgia Law Review. Before law school, Ian earned an M.S. in international affairs from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Languages

• Spanish

Bar Admissions

• Georgia

Education

• University of Georgia (J.D., 2013)
• Georgia Institute of Technology (M.S., 2007)
• Furman University (B.A., 2006)