Practices:

• Corporate
  • Corporate Counseling and Governance
  • Private Equity, Hedge Funds and Venture Capital
  • Financing and Lending
  • Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Payments
• Litigation
  • Antitrust and Unfair Competition

Experience

Ann-Marie McGaughey focuses on the general corporate representation of both publicly and privately-held companies in a wide variety of industries, including financial services, manufacturing, retail, automotive, travel, education, health and beauty, technology and service-oriented industries. Ms. McGaughey has significant experience in commercial lending transactions, contract negotiation, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and strategic alliances. In addition to advising clients on a broad range of corporate matters, including financings, commercial contracts and corporate governance, Ms. McGaughey often serves as lead outside counsel, managing the provision of all legal services required to meet a client's needs. Ms. McGaughey also has extensive experience representing family-owned businesses.

Ms. McGaughey also advises clients with respect to analysis under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, and the pre-merger notification filings with the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice.

Ms. McGaughey serves as an editor of the MLA Mergers & Acquisitions Quick Reference Guide, originally published in June 2006 and regularly updated.

Atlanta Magazine recognized Ms. McGaughey on their 2005, 2007 and 2008 lists of Georgia Super Lawyers. Ms. McGaughey was also selected by her peers to be included as a member of Georgia Trend’s Legal Elite. In addition, the Atlanta Business Chronicle included Ms. McGaughey on their first “Up and Comers” list, which profiled 50 of Atlanta’s most promising young leaders.

Notable Engagements

Representation of Littelfuse, Inc. (NASDAQ:LFUS) in connection with its $80 million Syndicated Term Loan Agreement with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Agent, Bank of America, As Syndication Agent, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Documentation Agent, and J.P. Morgan Securities, as Sole Lead Arranger and Sole Book Runner.

Representation of BCD Travel B.V., a privately owned Dutch company providing global corporate travel management services with operations in 90 countries and over $12 billion in sales, in connection with its $475 million syndicated credit facility with ING Bank N.V., acting as Agent and ING Bank and Bank of America, acting as Issuing Banks. The senior credit facility involved the pledge of security located in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.

Representation of TRX, Inc. (NASDAQ:TRXI) in connection with its credit facility with Atlantic Capital Bank, which involved the pledge of security in the U.S., Germany and India.

Representation of UK and Netherlands-based Reed Elsevier (NYSE:RUK) and several of its subsidiaries in a variety of transactions, including the acquisition of Penny Arcade Expo (PAX), the largest gaming festival in North America.

Representation of The Home Depot (NYSE:HD) and its subsidiaries in connection with acquisitions related to its consumer and commercial services businesses.

Representation of i2S, Inc., a professional services firm that provides expertise in the areas of intelligence analysis, enterprise architecture, knowledge management, systems engineering and advanced software development to Fortune 500 and government clients, in obtaining a new senior secured credit facility and mezzanine financing utilized to fund a successful management buy-out transaction.

Representation of Elavon in connection with dozens of acquisitions of merchant processing portfolios and in some instances, joint ventures and strategic alliances, throughout the U.S., including its acquisition of the merchant processing portfolio of, and a long-term strategic alliance with, Union Bank of California.

Representation of Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) in connection with the formation of SkyTeam Cargo USA, a global cargo alliance among Delta, Air France and Korean Airlines, as well as the admission of Alitalia into the alliance. The alliance focuses on cargo being shipped from the U.S. to locations throughout the world.

Education

• J.D., Mercer University School of Law, cum laude, 1993 (Managing Editor, Mercer Law Review; Brainard Currie Honor Society)
• B.A., Bowling Green State University, cum laude, 1989 (Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Societies)

Admitted

• Georgia