W. Hunter Holliday — Partner at Alston & Bird

Mr. W. Hunter Holliday is a Partner at Alston & Bird LLP. Mr. Holliday is a member of the firm's Capital Markets Group. He is also a member of the firm's Hiring Committee. He concentrates his practice on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, private corporate finance, corporate governance, business counseling and venture capital financing (representing both venture capital firms and early-stage companies). He received his J.D. in 1992 from Vanderbilt University, where he was an Associate Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review and recipient of the K. Harlan Dodson Award. He received a B.B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Texas at Austin in 1983, where he majored in finance and was an Endowed Presidential Scholar. Prior to attending law school, he worked for InterFirst Bank (now known as Bank of America) in Dallas, Texas, where he went through the bank's year-long credit training program and then was promoted to commercial loan officer. Prior to attending law school, Hunter also worked for a non-profit organization and lived in Yugoslavia and China. He currently serves on the Board of Bethany Christian Services, an international adoption agency.