In launching this new practice, the firm will leverage the strength of its full-service business law practice with its lawyers’ deep understanding of the LGBTQ community.
Morris, Manning & Martin’s LGBTQ Business practice attorneys will counsel LGBTQ-owned and operated businesses, business owners, investors, brokers, buyers, sellers, and lenders on legal issues unique to the community, ranging from real estate and finance to mergers and acquisitions and litigation. The group will also help corporate clients fulfill their diversity goals by providing counsel on issues related to supplier diversity initiatives.
“The goal of this new practice area is to ensure LGBTQ clients have ample opportunities to find the structural support and build the professional relationships necessary to thrive in the business world,” said practice co-chair Douglas D. Selph. “The firm’s experience and long-held commitment to equity and inclusion create an ideal platform to help LGBTQ businesses form strategic partnerships with other culturally aligned entities.”
Selph, who is a real estate and finance partner and the former President of the Stonewall Bar Association of Georgia, will co-lead the group with commercial real estate associate Charles E. Hicks. Hicks is an OUT Georgia Business Alliance ambassador and is actively involved in the LGBTQ community.
“We are thrilled to launch a formal practice to serve this historically underrepresented, yet rapidly growing, minority business sector,” said Hicks. “Our subject matter expertise combined with our value-based service model make Morris, Manning & Martin the optimal partner for LGBTQ entrepreneurs and the community’s corporate allies.”…
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