Georgia Corporate and Transactional Lawyers

Corporate and Transactional Law

33 S Main St #300, Alpharetta, GA 30009, USA

Alan M. Briskin is the founder and managing member of Briskin, Cross & Sanford, LLC, a general business and commercial litigation law firm. Alan's practice focuses on the representation of emerging technology companies and privately held businesses. He works with these companies in deciding how to structure their initial entity, raise money, protect the entity and owners from various types of liability and the transactions connected therein. In addition, Alan represents companies in structuring mergers and acquisitions, commercial contracts, banking transactions, intellectual property, and licensing. Alan also advises numerous clients in general corporate, commercial, and employment litigation. Being a business partner and confidant is equally important as providing legal advice and services. Alan has recognized that this is a key ingredient to a successful partnership with his clients. In this vein, he provides helpful resources and referrals, coaching and mentoring, and much needed time and attention to all of his clients. Prior to founding Briskin, Cross & Sanford, LLC, a firm which was known for eight years as Briskin & Associates, L.C., Alan was a founding partner of Briskin & Rinde, a corporate and technology law firm in Atlanta, Georgia. Alan received his law degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law, and his B.A. from the University of Maryland in Government and Politics. Alan is a member of the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity, in which he held numerous positions including President of his campus chapter and was recognized nationally as the Tau Beta Man of the Year. Prior to entering private practice, Alan worked as a Staff Attorney for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Washington, D.C. , where his responsibilities included handling employment discrimination, intellectual property and general litigation matters. Alan is admitted to practice in the States of Georgia, Florida and Maryland . He also belongs to numerous professional associations including the American Bar Association, the Georgia Bar Association, the Florida Bar Association, and the Maryland Bar Association. Alan lives in Johns Creek, Georgia with his wife and two children. Alan enjoys playing a wide variety of sports, coaching junior teams, and is very active within his community. Alan was also a founding member of the Steering Committee of the 400 Technology Connection.

Corporate and Transactional Law

700 Churchill Ct ste 120, Woodstock, GA 30188, USA

Amber Oliver is the co-founder of Oliver Hughes LLC. She now serves as the firm’s managing partner, where she has spearheaded the firm’s growth to become Georgia’s most prominent women-owned business and construction law firm. Ms. Oliver began her career in 2009 as an associate attorney in Alpharetta, Georgia. While there, she worked under a Special Assistant Attorney General, litigating private cases and prosecuting over 100 cases for Fulton County. Thereafter, Amber practiced with an international litigation firm in Atlanta and Marietta, Georgia. She began her own practice in 2018 until she met Ashley Hughes, the yin to her yang. Together, they founded Oliver Hughes LLC – Business and Construction Attorneys, in 2020. Outside of business and construction law and managing Oliver Hughes LLC, Ms. Oliver is dedicated to her two children. In her free time, she indulges in her love for reading, travel, and competitive powerlifting.

Corporate and Transactional Law

217 Sansbury Trail, Warner Robins, GA 31088, USA

Area of Practice: Business Law

Corporate and Transactional Law

5755 North Point Pkwy suite 51, Alpharetta, GA 30022, USA

Attorney Craig Lerman is dedicated to providing businesses and individuals with informative legal guidance. After taking the time to understand your needs, he can help you make smart decisions that take your greater economic interests into account. Craig Lerman is the principal of Lerman Law Associates, P.C. having a primary focus in providing his experience in broad corporate matters and securities advise to his clients. Mr. Lerman has counseled clients on a broad range of corporate, securities and business-related matters, including directors’ duties and responsibilities and other aspects of corporate governance, disclosure issues and compliance matters. Mr. Lerman represents entities and their investors in connection with business and intellectual property transactions, including formation, finance, contracts, licenses, joint development agreements, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property licenses, e-commerce, technology-related matters and general corporate law. Mr. Lerman has helped numerous companies prepare business plans, stock subscriptions, founder's agreements, private placement memorandums, and related documents essential to emerging companies. He advises investors and companies in debt and strategic financing rounds. He has considerable experience in negotiating and documenting corporate mergers and acquisitions, and partnership and joint venture agreements, as well as giving general business advice to start-up companies. Mr. Lerman also negotiates and documents stock purchase, investors' rights and voting agreements in connection with preferred stock private offerings. Mr. Lerman also represents alternative investment funds, including hedge, private equity and venture capital and their respective fund managers and sponsors in all corporate and regulatory matters relating to the structuring, formation, corporate governance and operations of such funds. He has comprehensive knowledge of various compliance issues including Regulation D offerings and other capital raisings, general solicitation, new issues, policies and procedures manuals and best practices, employment issues and general corporate and securities matters. Mr. Lerman has counseled fund managers, private fund sponsors and institutional investors on a broad range of complex and sophisticated investment management legal issues. He has launched an array of private equity, hedge and has drafted and reviewed an array of documents, including offering memoranda, limited partnership agreements, limited liability company agreements, investment management agreements, subscription agreements, side letter agreements, collateralized loan agreements, third party marketer agreements, employment agreements, licensing agreements, and offshore offering and operational agreements, service provider agreements, convertible note, stock purchase agreements, investor rights agreements, indemnification agreements, and legal opinions, among others. He provides counsel on numerous issues relating to the formation and on-going operations of alternative investment funds, both domestic and offshore, as well as separately managed accounts. He has advised numerous funds pursuing and diverse range of strategies, including equity funds, real estate, forex, futures, statistical, multi-strategy, emerging market, sector focused, fixed income, cash advance, real estate tax lien, and start-up companies. Attorney Lerman works hard to obtain cost-effective solutions and take pride in developing lasting legal relationships with clients.

Corporate and Transactional Law

1180 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA 30309, USA

Russ Richards focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate governance. As a partner in our Corporate Governance and Mergers & Acquisitions practices, Russ represents public and private companies in a range of corporate transactions. Across a wide variety of industries, Russ works with publicly held and privately owned companies in a full range of merger and acquisition transactions. These transactions have included public and private M&A, joint ventures, and strategic investments for companies throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, South America, the UK and Europe. Russ also represents Boards of Directors and Special Committees in planning and executing these transactions, and regularly advises public company Boards of Directors and Chief Executive Officers on corporate governance matters. Russ has been identified by Chambers USA and Georgia Trend as a leading lawyer in his practice area. He has also been listed in The Best Lawyers in America and selected as a BTI Client Service All-Star for delivering exemplary client service. Russ was also the recipient of the Daily Report Lifetime Achievement Award. Russ has been recognized as the 2023 and 2025 "Lawyer of the Year" for Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law in Atlanta in the 2023 and 2025 editions of The Best Lawyers in America.

Corporate and Transactional Law

33 South Main Street, Suite 300, Alpharetta, GA 30009

Steve is a Senior Associate Attorney at Briskin, Cross & Sanford, LLC ("BCS") and brings 15+ years of diverse legal experience to the firm. He is an active member of the State Bars in both Georgia and Illinois. He is also licensed before the Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia and a number of United States District Courts, including the Northern District of Georgia, the Middle District of Georgia, and the Northern District of Illinois. He currently focuses his practice on corporate transactions and litigation. Prior to joining BCS, Steve was a partner at a nationally recognized full-service law firm where he defended dozens of Fortune 500 corporations, as well as individuals, in a variety of litigation-based actions, including personal injury lawsuits (motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, negligent security, negligent hiring/training/supervision, and workers' compensation claims), contract disputes, and construction defects, to name just a few. He was widely known amongst his colleagues as a "utility player" given his diverse caseload. For nearly five years, Steve worked for a boutique law firm in Chicago, Illinois where he practiced insurance defense litigation and pursued subrogation claims. Prior to that, he represented individual plaintiffs in personal injury matters (general negligence, motor vehicle accidents, medical malpractice, nursing home negligence, and Medicare-related issues) at a well-known firm in Chicago which was initially started by the Cook County Law Division's presiding chief judge. Steve has litigated matters before magistrate, trial and appellate courts as well as administrative law tribunals. His dynamic legal experience, energetic representation and practical, solution-based approach has allowed him to repeatedly obtain successful results to complex legal issues. Steve earned his J.D. from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois and degrees in Political Science and Business Administration from Illinois State University. He has also participated as a mentor in the Risk Insurance Management Society mentor/mentee program since 2021 for young professionals aspiring to enter the insurance risk management and legal fields.

Corporate and Transactional Law

660 Wilderness Dr, Macon, GA 31220, USA

Ashanti Armstrong is a Georgia attorney with Haigler & Associates Law Firm, which maintains its Georgia office in Atlanta. Her legal education took her from Florida to Mercer University School of Law in Georgia, where she participated on the Moot Court Team. Originally from Tampa, Armstrong developed an interest in becoming an attorney at age nine. She joined a junior mock trial team the following year. During high school, she enrolled in the Law and Criminal Justice Academy at Thomas Jefferson High School in Tampa. She later attended Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University to pursue philosophy and religion with a minor in pre-law. At FAMU, she joined the Hatchett Pre-Law Society and participated on its mock trial team before moving to Georgia for law school. Her firm biography lists admission to Georgia’s lower courts, the Georgia Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Georgia. It also states that she is admitted to all federal courts in Georgia and has represented clients at every level of the state’s courts. Armstrong works within a firm that advertises a broad range of legal services. Haigler & Associates lists commercial contract law, transactional law, litigation, estate planning and intellectual property among its practice areas. The firm also maintains offices in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Huntsville, Alabama.

Corporate and Transactional Law

905 Juniper St NE, Atlanta, GA 30309, USA