CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP is a preeminent practitioner of corporate governance litigation, as evidenced by the firm's successful representation of clients in many landmark corporate governance cases. For example, we successfully represented Farley Industries in a dissenters’ rights case before the Georgia Supreme Court, a case which has become the seminal case on dissenters' rights in Georgia.  The Georgia Court of Appeals resolved, in favor of the firm's clients, two questions of first impression in Georgia involving the applicability of the attorney-work production privilege in the context of parallel criminal and civil proceedings, and the potential liability of shareholders of public companies for corporate frauds. 

Other significant corporate governance decisions in which the firm was involved include, a case considering the relationship between the Georgia corporate code and receivership law, and one considering the settlement of a shareholder derivative action negotiated by the managing receiver.

The firm owes its extraordinary success in corporate governance litigation to the quality of its attorneys.  For example, Mickey Mixson was selected as a member of Georgia’s “Legal Elite,” one of the "Top 100 Georgia Super Lawyers," and as a highest ranked Georgia Commercial Litigator by Chambers & Partners, USA.  Jill Pryor  was selected as a member of Georgia’s “Legal Elite,” one of the “Top 50 Female Super Lawyers” in Georgia and is reconized by Chambers & Partners, USA as a leader in the field of commercial litigation. Both of these partners lecture on topics in corporate governance.

The firm’s corporate governance practice involves representing both plaintiffs and defendants, including minority and majority shareholders, limited and general partners, receivers, and corporate and partnership officers, directors and managers.