Ian Calhoun

• Represented Total System Services (TSYS) in its $1.05 billion acquisition of Cayan, a payment technology company and merchant acquirer.
• Represented FleetCor in its $650 million acquisition of Cambridge Mercantile Corp., a Canadian business-to-business payments company.
• Represented FleetCor in its acquisition of Creative Lodging Solutions, a leading travel management and lodging provider.
• Represented United Airlines Inc. in negotiating its co-branded card program with a division of JPMorgan Chase & Co.
• Represented payment software and security provider TrustCommerce in its sale to private equity firm Waud Capital.
• Represented payments-solutions specialist Sterling Payment Technologies in its sale to merchant processor EVO Payments International.
• Represents a leading international payment processor in its cross-border acquisitions of merchant portfolios.
• Represented a top 20 U.S. bank in the negotiation of its card-issuing and merchant-acquiring relationships.
• Represented a specialty finance company in negotiating credit marketing and acceptance agreements with several national retailers.

Ian Calhoun is a member of Alston & Bird’s Financial Services & Products Group and the Payment Systems Team. Ian advises payments industry and banking industry clients on a range of transactional, regulatory, and corporate governance matters, including mergers and acquisitions, portfolio purchases, and negotiation of card-issuing and merchant-acquiring relationships.

He also has experience assisting clients with public securities offerings, private placements, ”blue sky” regulatory compliance, and SEC compliance, including 1933 Act filings and 1934 Act reporting.

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 and worked as general manager of a real estate development firm in Tamarindo, Costa Rica.

Languages

• Spanish

Bar Admissions

• Georgia

Education

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