Georgia Corporate and Transactional Lawyers

Corporate and Transactional Law

905 Juniper St NE, Atlanta, GA 30309, USA

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.