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Morris , Manning & Martin , LLP is a law firm which specializes in Litigation, Intellectual Property, Real Estate, Insurance, Healthcare, Environmental, Employment.

I am a partner at James|Bates specializing in equity and debt finance transactions for high-growth companies. I serve regional and national technology, healthcare, business process outsourcing, specialty manufacturing and other high-growth companies in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, joint venture and partnership formation, corporate governance, securities and employment transactions. I have served as counsel for both public and private companies as well as for private equity investors, venture capital investors and other participants in the corporate finance arena. I have syndicated investor groups for many type operations. Further, I have acted as lead counsel in merger and acquisition transactions involving billions of dollars consideration. I joined James|Bates in March 2010 after a very successful 31-year career with the Atlanta firm of Morris, Manning & Martin, where we grew the firm from 12 to almost 200 attorneys from 1979 to 2010 on the back of the technology and healthcare markets.Representative recent transactions:Represent a vendor of real-time location systems for hospitals in restructuring national and international joint ventures and partnershipsAdvise an advanced speech and text analytics firm in a proposed $110M mergerOrganize a syndicate of investors bidding for a biopolymer research and manufacturing operationCounsel a plastics compounding business in $10M acquisitions of assets and real properties Assist a manufacturer of remote-optics eye and gaze tracking systems in developing go-to-market strategies and first-round investment fundsHelp a client that collects clinical and physician claims data and generates real-time care opportunity reports in a merger with a national healthcare insurerAdvise on an asset purchase for a provider of advanced Alzheimer’s treatment solutionsClose an advanced preferred stock investment by BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners in a vendor of customer analyticsSpecialties: M&ARecaps and ReorganizationsCorporate FinancePrivate PlacementsVenture CapitalIPO'sBoard RepresentationExecutive Compensation