aShLEY A. HALFMAN

Associate

 

Practice Areas

Corporate & Tax

 

SUMMARY

Ashley has represented both publicly and privately held companies in merger and acquisition transactions. She has represented issuers and investors in private placements and registered offerings of debt and equity securities, including venture capital transactions. She advises clients regarding formation, structuring and management of business entities including corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships.  She counsels public and private companies in corporate governance matters, and she has also assisted public companies with securities compliance issues, including reporting obligations.

 

Ashley has enjoyed providing pro bono legal services for several organizations, including Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta, The Next Generation Foundation, and the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, through which she represented clients in administrative hearings before the D.C. Housing Authority and the D.C. Department of Human Services.

 

representative experience

• Represented a biotech company in private placements of $30.5 million of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock and $45 million of Series C Preferred Stock.
• Represented a large public bottling company in multiple acquisitions of local bottling companies.
• Represented managers of a $10 million real estate fund in the fund’s formation.
• Previously practiced at Jones Day in the Mergers and Acquisitions and Capital Markets practice groups in both its Washington, DC and Atlanta offices for five years.

Education

University of Georgia School of Law, J.D., cum laude (2002)

Birmingham-Southern College, B.S. in Biology, cum laude (1997)

 

PUBLICATIONS & DISTINCTIONS

• Giving Offenders What They Deserve: Amendments to Federal Sentencing Guidelines Section 2G2.2, Addressing Child Pornography Distribution, 36 Ga. L. Rev. 219 (2001)

MEMBERSHIPS

State Bar of Georgia

District of Columbia Bar

Alabama State Bar

Association for Corporate Growth

 

(678) 589-6304 - Phone

(678) 391-9951 - Fax

ahalfman@hssw.com

 

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