Profile: Sidney J Nurkin
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Law Firm: | Alston & Bird LLP |
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| Office: |
Alston & Bird LLP One Atlantic Center 1201 West Peachtree Street 30309-3424 |
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| City: | Atlanta | |
| State: | Georgia | |
| Country: | USA | |
| Tel: | +1 404 881 7260 | |
| Fax: | +1 404 253 8188 | |
| Email: | sid.nurkin@alston.com |
Mergers and Acquisitions
Biography: Mergers and Acquisitions
Sid Nurkin is a partner in Alston & Bird's corporate transactions and securities group. He concentrates his practice on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, corporate finance and corporate governance matters. He has served as lead counsel in representing the south-east United States' leading private equity fund. Sid has represented both buyers and sellers in merger and acquisition transactions of mid-sized and large companies in numerous separate industry sectors, concentrating primarily on transactions involving privately held companies. He has also advised boards of directors of numerous companies and their special committees in connection with change of control transactions, internal investigations and other corporate governance matters.Sid frequently writes and speaks on topics of corporate governance, director and officer liability, negotiated acquisitions and legal opinions. His professional activities include membership of the Atlanta and the American Bar Associations, and the State Bar of Georgia. He is a former chairman of the corporate and banking law section of the State Bar of Georgia, and was co-chair of the committee of the corporate and banking law section that developed the report on legal opinions to third parties in corporate transactions and the accompanying interpretive standards. Mr Nurkin also served for six years as a member of the committee on corporate laws of the business law section of the American Bar Association, which is the committee that wrote the Revised Model Business Corporation Act and subsequent modifications of that model act.
He received his LLB and his BSEE from Duke University, where he is an emeritus member of the board of visitors of the School of Law.
This biography is an extract from Who's Who Legal: Georgia which can be purchased from our bookstore.
Corporate Governance
Biography: Corporate Governance
Sid Nurkin is a partner in Alston & Bird's corporate transactions and securities group. He concentrates his practice on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, corporate finance and corporate governance matters. He has served as lead counsel in representing the south-east United States' leading private equity fund. Sid has represented both buyers and sellers in merger and acquisition transactions of mid-sized and large companies in numerous separate industry sectors, concentrating primarily on transactions involving privately held companies. He has also advised boards of directors of numerous companies and their special committees in connection with change of control transactions, internal investigations and other corporate governance matters.Sid frequently writes and speaks on topics of corporate governance, director and officer liability, negotiated acquisitions and legal opinions. His professional activities include membership of the Atlanta and the American Bar Associations, and the State Bar of Georgia. He is a former chairman of the corporate and banking law section of the State Bar of Georgia, and was co-chair of the committee of the corporate and banking law section that developed the report on legal opinions to third parties in corporate transactions and the accompanying interpretive standards. Mr Nurkin also served for six years as a member of the committee on corporate laws of the business law section of the American Bar Association, which is the committee that wrote the Revised Model Business Corporation Act and subsequent modifications of that model act.
He received his LLB and his BSEE from Duke University, where he is an emeritus member of the board of visitors of the School of Law.
This biography is an extract from Who's Who Legal: Georgia which can be purchased from our bookstore.