Andy Peters

March 24, 2006 | Daily Report Online

A TEAM FROM POWELL GOLDSTEIN helped the owners of a newly formed bank in the North Georgia mountains reach an agreement to sell their bank to a fast-growing Mississippi financial company. NBC Capital Corp., headquartered in Starkville, Miss., said on Tuesday that it agreed to pay $22 million in cash and stock to acquire Seasons Bancshares Inc.

By Andy Peters

5 minute read

March 13, 2006 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters, Staff Reporter Mike Berg thought the state's new public defender system was going to ease the financial burden on Dawson County, where he chairs the county commission.Instead, Dawson County is paying nearly double the $115,000 it paid in 2004 for indigents' legal defense. In 2005, the first year of the public defender program, Dawson County increased its funding to $220,000.

By Andy Peters

6 minute read

December 21, 2006 | Daily Report Online

AMID TALK of a wave of consolidation in the U.S. airline industry, two Smith, Gambrell Russell partners are giving advice to one potential buyer.Smith Gambrell's Howard E. Turner and M. Timothy Elder are advising AirTran Holdings Inc. on its attempt to acquire rival Midwest Air Group Inc.AirTran, the discount carrier that operates out of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, on Oct.

By Andy Peters

5 minute read

June 09, 2006 | National Law Journal

A Smith, Gambrell & Russell partner has left the firm for DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary�s brand-new Atlanta office and three other partners are making the same move next week.

By Andy Peters

3 minute read

September 26, 2006 | Daily Report Online

KING SPALDING, looking to beef up its intellectual property and biotechnology practices, hired three attorneys from crosstown rival Kilpatrick Stockton and may be scoping out more hires in those areas. Anthony B. Askew, Stephen M. Schaetzel and James D. Johnson joined King Spalding last week. Askew, 66, was a co-founder of the IP boutique firm Jones Askew, which Kilpatrick Stockton acquired in 2000.

By Andy Peters

3 minute read

December 02, 2008 | Daily Report Online

A state lawmaker and a commissioner from DeKalb County want to crack down on what they see as local governments' abuse of bond sales. But public finance attorneys are worried that such a crusade may seriously weaken local development authorities, which they say are key tools for economic development in Georgia.The debate is playing out in the courts.

By Andy Peters

5 minute read

June 01, 2006 | Daily Report Online

A SIZEABLE SEGMENT of the State Bar of Georgia's bankruptcy law section has kept itself busy over the past few years working on the bankruptcy saga of Rhodes Furniture, the now-defunct retailer founded in Atlanta in 1879. In the process, dozens of Atlanta lawyers have billed millions of dollars in fees.The law firms that submitted bills for approval by U.

By Andy Peters

5 minute read

October 13, 2009 | Daily Report Online

As a lawyer who works primarily on mergers and acquisitions and tax issues, H. Bruce Jackson of Arnall Golden Gregory looks like an unusual choice to serve on Gov. Sonny Perdue's water contingency task force. But Jackson also maintains a side practice on water-law issues in Colorado, where he owns property and got interested in the subject.

By Andy Peters

7 minute read

November 03, 2006 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters

7 minute read

February 01, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Most members of the DeKalb County bench turned out Thursday afternoon to let the county's commissioners know that they won't be able to do their jobs if millions of dollars of proposed spending cuts are approved."We cannot and will not absorb these cuts," Cynthia J. Becker, chief administrative judge of the DeKalb County Superior Court, told several members of the DeKalb County Board of Commissioners during a budget hearing in Decatur.

By Andy Peters

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