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Alston & Bird has been named one of the country’s top workplaces for consulting and professional services by Great Place to Work – the seventh time in a row the firm has earned this distinction.

Alston & Bird represented Oconee Financial – the holding company for Oconee State Bank, a $520 million asset community bank based in Watkinsville, Georgia – in its acquisition of Elberton Federal Savings & Loan Association and its related common stock offering.

For the twelfth consecutive year, Alston & Bird has been recognized as a global leader in patent law by Intellectual Asset Management in its annual IAM Patent 1000 – The World’s Leading Patent Professionals.

Alston & Bird client AOG Institutional Diversified Fund, has announced that its registration statement on Form N-2 was declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on January 12, 2023.

Corporate Control Alert, the legal and financial dealmaking journal published by The Deal, has ranked Alston & Bird sixth among counsel to financial advisors on U.S. M&A transactions with a value of $100 million or more announced between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2022.