Ted Blum Email & Phone Number

Ted Blum serves as managing shareholder of the Atlanta Office of Greenberg Traurig and is chair of the firm’s Atlanta Corporate and Securities Practice. As Managing Shareholder, Ted is responsible for the growth and strategic direction of the Atlanta office, which has more than 100 attorneys. An accomplished attorney, Ted leads and advises a team with the strategic business, legal and market experience needed to manage and close complex business transactions, as well as to provide counsel on day-to-day operations. Ted has been recognized for his legal work through listings in The Best Lawyers in America (2007-2018), Georgia Super Lawyers (2006-2018), Chambers USA (2007-2017) and Georgia Trend’s Legal Elite (2008-2013, 2015-2018). Ted supports his community through his involvement with several organizations. He currently serves as chairman of the Chick-fil-A Foundation’s Advisory Board supporting youth education, is Board Alumni for Junior Achievement, is the Chair of the Task Force of the Rotary Club of Atlanta to Fight Human Trafficking and Slavery and acts as General Counsel to the Jack & Jill Foundation. Ted is also active in an array of Jewish Philanthropic roles and serves as General Counsel of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, as well as being active in a variety of Jewish charities.

Listed skills include Mergers And Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Corporate Finance, Corporate And Business Law, and 1 others.

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  Atlanta Managing Shareholder; Chair, Atlanta Corporate And Securities Practice

  Greenberg Traurig, Llp

  2001 - Present - Greater Atlanta Area

  Ted leads and advises a team with the strategic business, legal and market experience needed to manage and close complex transactions, as well as to provide counsel on day-to-day operations. Ted concentrates his practice in the areas of corporate and business law, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, and corporate finance. He has experience representing buyers and sellers in the structuring and negotiation of complex, multimillion-dollar mergers, acquisitions and divestitures of public and privately held companies. These transactions include leveraged buyouts, tax-free reorganizations, stock redemptions and acquisitions of financially troubled or insolvent companies.Ted also works closely with growth companies raising equity or debt capital in private placements and other transactions exempt from the registration requirements of the federal and state securities laws. These transactions include the structuring and negotiation of rights, privileges and preferences of common stock, preferred stock, convertible debt, warrants and other equity or debt arrangements (including preemptive rights, anti-dilution protections, liquidation and dividend preferences, registration rights, rights of first refusal, co-sale rights, puts, calls, voting rights and board representation, capital calls, and other rights). He represents companies in structuring and negotiating joint venture, partnership and other strategic arrangements, licensing and development agreements, distribution and supply agreements, shareholder agreements, option and warrant agreements, employment and consulting agreements, and non-competition, non-disclosure and proprietary rights agreements.