Amy Taylor Wilson
Amy Taylor Wilson
Amy Taylor Wilson
Biography
Amy Wilson advises private and public companies in connection with mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance matters, and general corporate matters. She brings specific experience leading complex cross-border M&A transactions, special purpose acquisition company (or “SPAC”) transactions, internal restructurings, spinoffs, and divestitures. Amy represents private equity firms in their acquisitions, dispositions, recapitalizations, and financings, as well as private founder-owned companies and publicly traded companies.
Her experience covers a range of industries, and most recently she has led deals for clients operating and investing in the software and technology, financial services, REIT, health care, and manufacturing sectors.
Amy brings a practical, problem-solving approach to help clients accomplish their business goals.
Civic Involvement & Honors
- The Best Lawyers in America - Mergers and Acquisitions Law (2023-2025)
- Chambers USA- Georgia, Corporate/M&A, "Up and Coming" (2024)
- Vistage 901
Chair of the Atlanta Recruiting Committee
Inclusion and Diversity Team Leader for the Corporate Transactions Practice Group
Admissions
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Georgia, 2009
Education
University of Iowa, J.D., 2009
University of Iowa, B.B.A., cum laude, 2006
Related Practice Areas
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M&A & Corporate Finance
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Healthcare & Life Sciences
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Real Estate Private Equity, Investments & REITs
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Corporate
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Real Estate
Experience
- Advised Gesher I Acquisition Corp, a Cayman Islands SPAC registered on the Nasdaq stock exchange (Nasdaq: GIAC), in its acquisition of Freightos Limited, a leading global freight booking and payment platform. The combined entity will be known as Freightos and publicly listed on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbol “FROS.”
- Advised the Broadmark family of companies in their merger with Trinity Merger Corp., a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, to form Broadmark Realty Capital Inc. (NYSE: BRMK), a $1.5 billion market capitalization internally managed mortgage REIT.
- Advised American Megatrends Inc., a global provider of BIOS and UEFI firmware, remote management and data storage solutions, in its restructuring and strategic investment by HGGC, a private equity firm.
- Advised Privet Fund Management LLC in its acquisition of Hardinge Inc. (Nasdaq: HDNG), a publicly traded manufacturer of high precision, computer-controlled machine tooling solutions, in an insider going private transaction.
- Advised Hardinge, Inc. in acquisition of Ohio Tool Works, L.L.C, a leading manufacturer of industrial honing machines, tooling, and abrasives.
- Advised AGS Health, a leader in revenue cycle management solutions for major healthcare providers across the U.S., in their acquisition of EZDI Inc., a leader in modernizing computer-assisted coding (CAC) to support healthcare providers with revenue cycle management.
- Advised Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CFG) on its purchase of the assets of Trinity Capital LLC, a Los Angeles based advisory firm that provides a range of financial services to commercial clients, including financial advice on debt restructuring, leveraged and management buyouts and private placements of debt and equity.
- Advised a publicly traded real estate investment trust in the healthcare industry in its $2 billion acquisition of a publicly traded healthcare company and its $500 million acquisition of skilled nursing facilities.
- Advised a publicly traded consumer goods company in its spin-off of a significant business segment as an independent public company.
- Advised a publicly traded Fortune 1000 financial services company in connection with various acquisitions of wealth management businesses.
- Advised a publicly traded medical device company in securities and corporate governance matters, a modified Dutch auction self tender offer, and ultimately in its $70 million sale to a private equity firm.
- Advised a publicly traded company in the water infrastructure industry on its divestiture of a significant business segment to a private equity firm.
- Advised an activist investor hedge fund on investments in and initiatives to drive value for small capitalization companies.
- Advised an educational software company in its sale to a private equity firm.
- Advised five crane and rigging companies in a $100 million sale of their operating businesses to a private equity firm.
- Advised institutional investors and private companies in venture and growth equity transactions in various industries.
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