Biography

Mr. Brannan maintains a broad-based business practice and regularly advises chief executives, senior management and directors of numerous regulated and unregulated operating companies, most of which are privately owned. In the banking area, Mr. Brannan concentrates on representation of community banks. He has extensive experience in strategic planning, organization and formation, mergers and acquisitions, asset sales, capital procurement (debt and equity), special-purpose subsidiary and affiliate formation, governance (including negotiation and management of shareholder contests), and commercial lending. In the real estate area, Mr. Brannan’s experience includes representation of developers and lenders on virtually all types of real estate projects: retail, industrial, office, apartments, condominiums, golf course communities and private utility companies. Mr. Brannan also has extensive experience in representation of landlords and tenants in commercial leasing matters, primarily office and retail.

Practice Areas

• Banking + Financial Institutions
• Corporate + Transactional
• Real Estate
• Churches + Religious Organizations

Professional Organizations/Activities

• State Bar of Georgia (Member, Sections on: Business; Real Property Law)
• Past Chair, Bank Counsel Board, Georgia Bankers Association
• Associate Member, Community Bankers Association of Georgia
• Member, Board of Editors, Mercer Law Review (1981-1982)

Presentations + Publications

• Eleventh Circuit Rules Bank Not a “Debt Collector” Under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
• Georgia Supreme Court Decides Applicability of Business Judgment Rule to Bank Director and Officer Decision Making
• Author: “Note, Taxpayers Stripped of Clothing Deductions by an Objective Standard,” 32 Mercer Law Review 1321, reprinted in 31 Monthly Digest of Tax Articles, January, 1982

Education

• Georgia State University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1979)
• Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University (J.D., cum laude, 1982)

Admitted

• Georgia, 1982

Administrative/Legal Assistant Contact

Name: Angela Delaney
Title: Legal Assistant
Phone: 404.978.7812