Dave Armitage represents corporations and other business entities in connection with mergers, acquisitions, corporate restructurings and general business matters as well as financial institutions, borrowers and trustees in a variety of complex financing transactions.  During his thirty-plus years at the firm, he has particularly emphasized the areas of mergers and acquisitions, business restructurings, aircraft transactions and finance, leveraged lease finance, asset-based finance, equipment leasing, securitization and secured transactions.  Representative clients have included senior and subordinated lenders, institutional trustees, foreign and domestic banks, Fortune 1000 companies and business entities of all sizes and types engaged in the manufacturing, service, and financial services industries.

Bar and Court Admissions

Georgia, 1976

Education

University of Michigan, J.D., cum laude, 1976

Ohio University, A.B., summa cum laude, 1973

Publications

• Co-author, Georgia Commercial Financing Forms, LEXIS Law Publishing, Aspen Pub, Inc., 1991, Updated 1997 (out of print)

Professional Affiliations

• American Bar Association – Business Law Section: Aircraft Financing Sub-Committee; Opinion Letter Committee; Negotiated Acquisitions Committee; Securitization Subcommittee
• Atlanta Bar Association – Business and Finance Law Section
• Lawyers Club of Atlanta
• State Bar of Georgia – Uniform Commercial Code Committee; Article 2A and Article 9 Subcommittees; served on Article 2A Drafting Committee
• State Bar of Georgia – Corporate and Banking Law Section

Civic Involvement and Honors

• Georgia Super Lawyer (2007-2011)
• University of Michigan Law School – Co-Class Agent for Class of 1976
• CEO Netweavers
• Atlanta Botanical Garden – Member of Board of Trustees (1999-2006) and Executive Committee (2005-2006)
• Mt. Paran Christian School Annual Fund (2010-2011); 12th grade parent representative