- Bios:
- Susan T. Craighead
Susan T. Craighead
Partner (non-equity)
Susan received a B.A. with honors from the University of South Florida. She earned her J.D. cum laude (1995) and an LL.M. in International Law (1997) from the University of Georgia. Prior to practicing law, Susan had a career in healthcare and owned and managed a small business. Her varied experiences bring a balanced perspective to her practice, both pragmatic and personal.
Susan’s legal career has been built on the strategic transactions that create, build and extend value for her clients. Susan spent several years with a corporate and technology legal boutique representing start-up and emerging growth companies with entity formation, venture capital rounds, mergers and acquisitions and contracts. She later joined a traditional, full service law firm, where she worked with a broad range of established clients, advising them with respect to corporate restructuring and reorganizations, securities, business combinations and strategic partnerships, as well as preparing and negotiating agreements such as distribution, vendor, shareholder, and employee agreements. Susan also worked as in-house counsel with one of the world’s largest travel technology companies, overseeing relationships with its international affiliates and customers.
Susan’s practice areas include mergers, acquisitions and other corporate reorganizations, debt and equity finance, privately held securities, the licensing and protection of intellectual property, and negotiating and drafting a wide range of corporate agreements. In addition to both profit and non-profit companies, Susan represents their executives, directors and owners, assisting them with issues arising out of their relationships with the company and each other.
Susan has a passion for international affairs that led to her earning her Masters’ in International Law. She has represented many foreign owned companies doing business in the United States as well as U.S. companies doing business abroad. Representative transactions include the creation of a Brazilian corporation to acquire the targeted manufacturing division of a Brazilian corporation and the subsequent negotiation of a key distribution agreement with a spin-off founded by the former management group.
She is a member of various organizations, including the Georgia Association of Women Lawyers, the Belgian-American Chamber of Commerce, the Georgia Bar, the Stonewall Bar Association and Holy Spirit Church. She was a speaker at Crossing Bridges 2006, an international conference of business women held in Atlanta.