Theodore I Blum

Practice Areas

Corporate

Mergers & Acquisitions

Career

Ted Blum serves as Managing Shareholder of the Atlanta office and Chair of the Atlanta Corporate Practice. He 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.

Concentrations:

Corporate and business law

Mergers and acquisitions

Venture capital

Corporate finance

Professional Memberships

Board Member, Woodruff Arts Center, Board of Trustees

Board Member, Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, Board of Directors

Member, Law360 Editorial Advisory Board, Georgia, 2022

Member, The Carter Center Board of Directors

Board Member, Chick-fil-A® Foundation, Advisory Board; Chairman, 2013-2019

Board Alumni, Junior Achievement of Georgia

Board Member, Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, Board of Advisors

Member, Rotary Club of America; Chair, Task Force to Fight Human Trafficking and Slavery, 2017-2020

Publications

Listed, Chambers USA Guide, 2007-2022

Personal

J.D., Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, 1992

A.B., University of Michigan, 1988