About Ed
Ed practices in the Atlanta office and serves as Chair of the firm’s Banking and Real Estate practice group. He has practiced law since 1988 and is admitted to practice in Georgia, Maryland and Tennessee. Ed has extensive experience representing capital providers and capital users in middle market and large corporate transactions, including: accounts receivable and inventory finance; mezzanine debt; health care finance; joint ventures; leveraged acquisition finance; private equity investments; equipment finance; unsecured finance; letters of credit finance; asset securitizations; media, high tech and telecommunications finance; real estate finance; loan syndications and participations; workouts and restructurings; secured party sales; debtor-in-possession finance; and loan sales.
He frequently writes and speaks on corporate finance and other legal topics with the National Business Institute, Lorman Education Services, and the Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia, as well as the Emory University Law and Religion Program and other organizations. Ed has been listed in The Chambers Directory of Leading Law Firms and Lawyers in the Banking and Finance category, The Best Lawyers in America in the Banking and Finance category since 2006 and in Georgia’s 2007 Who’s Who Legal in the Banking category. Chambers USA has named Ed a “Leader in their Field” for four consecutive years since 2009. In addition, he has been selected for the past three years as a Georgia
“Super Lawyer” in the Banking practice area.
Ed in the community
Ed is a former adjunct professor at Emory Law School, teaching contract drafting. He is a Board member of the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University where he also runs an informal “Tour the Bible Through the Carlos Museum” program for church and synagogue groups on Sunday afternoons. Ed is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Atlanta Metro Chamber of Commerce.