Nelson Mullins partners Michael E. Hollingsworth II and Amy B. Cheng were recently listed in Atlanta Magazine's 2025 edition of "Atlanta 500." The list recognizes the "city's most powerful leaders" in the Atlanta market in Law, Accounting & Consulting, Marketing & Public Relations, Media, and "Legends."
Hollingsworth, managing partner of the Atlanta office, has led its growth from 83 to over 150 attorneys. He is cohead of the firm's mergers and acquisitions group and its investment management group, focusing on middle-market corporate transactions including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures.
Cheng, meanwhile, is an experienced litigator who helps clients from early-stage startups to multinational corporations in healthcare and other industries with employment, commercial, white-collar, and government investigations matters. She regularly advises clients on critical business matters including employment agreements and regulations, termination and grievance procedures, state and federal agency charges, breach of contract, and tortious claims. She brings a business-savvy approach to assisting clients in mitigating and managing risks, and when disputes arise, she draws on her significant trial experience to advocate for her clients both in settlement negotiations and in the courtroom.
Outside of work, both attorneys are leaders in the community. Hollingsworth is on the Board of Trustees for the Woodruff Arts Center and serves on the President's Council for Tulane University, his undergraduate alma mater. He has been recognized by Best Lawyers the last couple years in corporate governance, corporate, and mergers and acquisitions law and has been ranked in the Chambers USA guide for Corporate/M&A since 2006.
Cheng serves on various boards with the American Bar Association Litigation Section, Atlanta Bar Association, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Outstanding Atlanta, Georgia Lawyer for the Arts, Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association. For her leadership efforts and positive impacts to the community, she has been consistently recognized by her peers and others, including recognition by Georgia Trend as one of Georgia’s Most Influential Leaders of 2024, Georgia Asian Times as one of the 25 most Influential AAPI Individuals in Georgia, “40 Under 40” by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, and selection by Outstanding Atlanta into its Class of 2024.
Since 1961, Atlanta magazine, the city’s premier general interest publication, has served as the authority on the city of Atlanta, providing its readers with a mix of long-form nonfiction, lively lifestyle coverage, in-depth service journalism, and literary essays, columns, and profiles.
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