Biography
Morgan Ownbey is an associate in the firm’s Corporate and Transactional Group. He focuses his practice on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and general corporate matters.
Morgan obtained his J.D., cum laude, from the Georgia State University College of Law. He also obtained his M.B.A. from the Georgia State University J. Mack Robinson College of Business. While attending law school, he served as an articles editor for the Georgia State Law Review and as a research assistant in the International Business Department.
Prior to attending law school, Morgan graduated, with honors, from Georgia College with a B.S. in Chemistry.
Morgan currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife, Caitlyn.
Practice Areas
Representative Matters
- Represented a technology services firm in a $81 million merger with a financial acquirer.
- Represented the shareholders of a HVAC maintenance firm in a $16 million asset sale to a financial acquirer.
- Represented the shareholder of an electric utility cooperative service provider in an $5 million asset sale to a financial acquirer.
- Represented a PE-backed HVAC firm in its bolt-on acquisition of a regional competitor.
- Represented a local urgent care clinic it its asset sale to a financial acquirer.
- Represented the owners of a local veterinary clinic in its sale to a financial acquirer.
- Represented the subsidiary shareholders in a split-off transaction from a financially distressed construction firm.
- Represented the owners of a liquid propane business in a $4.5 million asset sale to a strategic buyer.
- Represented the shareholders of one of the country's leading roofing, siding, and gutter installation companies in its $130 million stock sale to a financial acquirer.
- Represented the shareholders of a manufacturer of modular homes business in its $53 million equity sale to a strategic acquirer.
- Represented the shareholders of a full service engineering firm in a $24 million stock sale to a financial acquirer.
- Represented the minority shareholder of an international logistics company in a $3.6 million stock sale.
- Represented the shareholders of a luxury home builder in a $53 million asset sale to a strategic buyer.
- Represented the shareholders of an HVAC firm in a $70 million stock sale to a financial acquirer.
- Represented the owner in a carve-out of their PEO and ASO business lines in a $9 million stock sale to a strategic acquirer.
- Represented the owners of a staffing and disaster response company in a $178 million stock sale to an international buyer.
- Represented the stockholder of an engineering consulting firm in a stock sale to a strategic acquirer.
Education
- Georgia State College of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2019)
- Georgia State J. Mack Robinson College of Business (M.B.A., 2019)
- Georgia College (B.S., Chemistry, with honors, 2015)
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