Janine Brown

• Counsel to one of the world’s leading manufacturers of packaging, paper and building products in connection with its $400 million acquisition of an oriented strand board (OSB) manufacturer based in Canada and the United States.
• Counsel to a wireless telecommunications provider in connection with the $2.5 billion sale of network infrastructure and spectrum to another wireless provider.
• Counsel to global media and entertainment business in connection with its expansion of digital media products.
• Counsel to the world’s third-largest chemical company, in connection with a bioethanol acquisition and joint venture.
• Counsel to a provider of audio, video and web-based conferencing solutions, in connection with a $400 million merger with a public company.
• Counsel to national broadcasting and digital media company in connection with strategic investments in digital media companies.
• Counsel to an online travel distribution business in connection with its offshoring to India of certain customer care and mid-office functions.
• Represented a private equity fund in connection with leveraged acquisitions of various information technology companies serving the aerospace and defense industries.
• Counsel to a Fortune 500 company in its international rollout of a suite of online tools.
• Represented a publicly held telecommunications company in over 100 acquisitions over a period of several months.

Janine Brown is an M&A and corporate partner who serves as partner-in-charge of Alston & Bird's Atlanta office. She works with companies in a variety of sectors, including technology, media, telecommunications, renewable energy, and manufacturing, and has been involved in a wide variety of domestic and international transactions, including capital-raising transactions, corporate governance matters, mergers and acquisitions, information technology transactions, joint ventures/strategic alliances, and outsourcing transactions. Janine's clients include public and private companies, as well as private equity funds.

Janine has been selected to The Best Lawyers in America^© since 2001 and has been recognized by Georgia Super Lawyers since 2004. She is a frequent lecturer on matters related to mergers and acquisitions. She received a J.D., with high honors, from Duke University School of Law and a B.A., with distinction, from the University of Michigan. Janine serves on several boards including Spelman College, a historically black college for women, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at the Woodruff Arts Center, and Duke University School of Law. She is past board chair of Georgia Justice Project and Piedmont Healthcare, a non-profit health care system.

律師資格

• Georgia

學歷

• 杜克大學 (法學博士, 1986)
• University of Michigan (學士學位, 1982)

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