• Contact

  • 678.336.7147
  • mtrotter@taylorenglish.com
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• Practice Areas

  • Business Organization
  • Corporate Finance
  • Securities
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Corporate Governance
  • Family Business
  • Real Estate Investment Trusts

• Education

  • J.D., Harvard Law School, 1962
  • M.A., Harvard University, 1959
  • B.A., Brown University, cum laude, 1958

• Memberships

  • State Bar of Georgia, 1961

Michael H. Trotter

Michael H. Trotter is a member of Taylor English’s Business Transactions, Corporate & Taxation practice group. He has served as principal securities lawyer for more than 15 public companies including companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange, he has been the responsible attorney for debt financings as large as $525,000,000, and has been the responsible attorney in large as well as small business sales and acquisitions. He has also served as special counsel to committees of independent directors in corporate investigations.

Mr. Trotter has also devoted significant time to the representation of closely held businesses as well as family businesses. He has served on two occasions as a special master for the U.S. District Court for the Northern district of Georgia.

Mr. Trotter has taught Securities Regulation at the Emory University Law School as well as courses in law firm management.

Mr. Trotter is the author of more than 20 articles, columns and essays published in the American Bar Association Journal, the National Law Journal and the Daily Report.

• Publications

  • Profit and the Practice of Law – What’s Happened to the legal Profession (University of Georgia Press, 1997)
  • Raise the Bar – Real World Solutions for a Troubled Profession (ABA 2007) Author of Chapter 3 – “Pig in a Poke? The Uncertain Advantages of Very Large and Highly Leveraged Law Firms in America”