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Stephen A. Winter is the Managing Partner of WCZ and dedicates much of his practice to resort and land development, the representation of community associations, general corporate, business and finance transactions, workouts and real estate law. Stephen is significantly involved, on a national basis, in the representation of developers of planned and resort communities, including golf course communities, mixed-use developments, residential communities, condominium developments, vacation ownership or timeshare regimes and associations within these types of developments. He is also very active in community association law representing residential and office condominiums, townhome developments, mixed use projects, residential community associations and master-planned communities.

Roger Kirschenbaum is a partner in MendenFreiman’s estate planning, trust and estate administration and business practice areas. His primary areas of practice include estate planning, probate and estate administration, general corporate and business law, and related tax-planning matters. He primarily works with high-net-worth clients and owners of closely held businesses to devise plans that achieve both fundamental and complex estate-related goals.. Roger has significant experience in probate matters relating to wrongful death negligence cases. In addition, he previously served as a public arbitrator for the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. From 1985 to 1996, he represented professional athletes as a registered contract advisor with the National Basketball Players Association and the National Football League Players Association. Prior to joining MendenFreiman in 2017, Roger had his own private practice and was an of counsel attorney with Wagner, Johnston & Rosenthal, P.C. He currently serves on the Emory University Gift Planning Advisory Council.

My background includes extensive commerical real estate experience (including acquisition/disposition and leasing), and I have participated in transactions throughout the United States and internationally. Beyond real estate, I have handled a wide variety of transactional matters, as well as commercial litigation and alternative dispute resolution. Addtionally, I have been involved in complex securitized asset transactions involving hundreds of millions of dollars. I would welcome your inquiry.

H. Eric Hilton is a Partner in the Atlanta office of Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young LLP, focusing on construction, labor & employment and business litigation.  Eric is a practice group leader of the firm’s construction group.  He also serves as co-chair of the firm’s diversity committee.  Eric represents a variety of business types including construction general contractors, engineering firms, retail companies, property owners, property management firms, and hospitality industry clients.  Eric has tried cases to verdict in both state and federal courts and has appeared in numerous multi-party arbitration proceedings and mediations.. He handles a wide range of complex and high dollar construction related matters including defect claims, payment disputes, delay and schedule issues, performance, and contract disputes.  Additionally, Eric has expertise in defending property owners and contractors in resident injury claims related to alleged mold and toxic substance exposure. Eric also drafts, negotiates and reviews construction contracts and various business agreements.  He has developed and implemented effective dispute resolution and claim avoidance strategies to facilitate orderly project execution and completion for his construction industry clients.. Eric continues to maintain an active employment law practice and has experience in handling claims under Title VII, the ADA, the ADEA and various state laws.  He represents clients before administrative agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Labor Relations Board and various state agencies.  He conducts internal investigations, employee training and drafts employee handbooks. Eric also handles labor matters and serves as chief labor negotiator with a particular focus on the hospitality industry.. Immediately prior to joining the firm, Eric served for ten years as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for national construction general contractor. As a hands-on general counsel, Eric spent significant time on construction related matters and successfully managed the resolution of numerous multi-party construction disputes.  He directly handled owner, subcontractor and vendor disputes during project execution and following project completion, to include matters involving performance, payment, schedule and completion, default, defect, warranty and remediation.  Eric remained active in contract administration to include drafting, negotiation and review of owner and subcontractor construction contracts, joint venture agreements and other business entity agreements.  Eric also managed a number of major claims involving water intrusion and related issues.. In his role as General Counsel, Eric also provided advice to the company’s property management groups and managed claims involving a wide range of subject matters including mold and pollution, negligent security, wrongful death, personal injury and premises liability.  He also directly handled employment matters on behalf of the company and served as its lead labor negotiator.  Further, Eric oversaw the company’s human resources and risk management functions and worked closely with its insurers and insurance brokers to manage and minimize risk and exposure.  Eric also oversaw legal affairs for the Company’s other business units including its real estate development group, and the Company’s hotel and restaurant interests and airport concessions.  For his efforts, Eric received the Outstanding General Counsel Award (solo) from the Atlanta Business Chronicle and the Association of Corporate Counsel, Georgia Chapter in 2012.. Eric remains active in a number of business and civic organizations.  He is a Board Member of the Latin American Association and a member of 100 Black Men of Atlanta, Inc.  Eric is a past Board Member both of the Georgia Radio Reading Service, Inc. and the Association of Corporate Counsel, Georgia Chapter.  He has also served on the Fernbank Corporate Leadership Council and is a 2012 alumnus of Leadership Atlanta.  Eric volunteers regularly with a variety of service organizations including Habitat for Humanity, Action Ministries and the Atlanta Food Bank.. Eric is a zealous advocate with a clear focus on solutions that facilitate his client’s business objectives.  Eric’s litigation and in-house experience, along with his business acumen, allows him to deliver customized and effective legal representation to his clients.

George Menden is a cofounding partner of MendenFreiman.  His practice focuses on the areas of business law, business tax planning, wealth  planning, wills and trusts, and asset protection.  His expertise in highly complex midmarket transactions, combined with his extensive knowledge of business, tax, and estate planning, provides his clients with world-class representation and wealth-transfer strategies.  George represents companies with domestic and international operations in manufacturing, distribution and service sectors.  He often advises business clients throughout all stages of their development from business formation, growth, maturity and ultimately a sale, which results in financial freedom for his clients.. George began his career as a certified public accountant with Ernst & Young where he focused on the accounting and tax complexities of mergers and acquisitions.  He then joined Alston & Bird in 1985 as a business transaction attorney.  George is a frequent guest speaker on business, taxation and estate planning topics and previously served as the tax editor for Professional Excellence, a publication for dentists and orthodontists.

Education:. JD, Emory University School of Law ;. MBA, University of Michigan – Ross School of Business ;. BA, University of California – Santa Barbara. Throughout his career 20+ year career, Mr. Battleson has worked in deal teams as an attorney, investment banker and principal involved in operating businesses, development projects, and existing assets with a value in excess of $2.2 billion; and, as an insurance defense trial attorney defending national insurance companies, multinational self-insured companies, and the State of Georgia in matters with potential liability in excess of $100 million.. Mark graduated from Emory University School of Law in 1995, while also working for the United States Attorney’s Office as a third-year practice clerk.  Following law school, Mark clerked for the Chief Judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals, and then began his litigation career working as an insurance defense attorney, defending against plaintiffs and claimants in personal injury and workers’ compensation lawsuits and claims.  During his initial trial practice, Mark prosecuted and defended hundreds of depositions of fact witnesses and medical experts, successfully defended dozens of trials, and negotiated hundreds of favorable settlements.. Mark returned to graduate school after several years of law practice and earned his MBA from University of Michigan Ross School of Business.  After business school, Mark worked in New York City for a bulge-bracket investment bank, in its Institutional Securities, Equity Division, and developed a strategy involving the analysis of derivatives (options / futures) of stocks and bonds, and their reaction to enterprise-level litigation and other significant legal and regulatory matters.  After returning to Atlanta, Mark returned to the formal practice of law representing developers and capital providers as an attorney with a large Atlanta firm, forming entities and partnerships, structuring and closing tax-credit-based equity financings and conventional debt, and handling general commercial real estate sales and financings involving retail, office, multifamily, hospitality, and land.. Prior to founding Battleson Law, LLC, Mark continued to develop his legal and finance expertise with a number of local and national investment and asset management firms, with stops in San Diego and Miami, before returning to Atlanta.  While in-house, Mark served in senior and executive, legal-focused, development, asset management, and capital markets roles, primarily involving market-rent multifamily, tax-credit multifamily, condominium, RV and MHC parks, and single-family housing.  Mark has also served as: capital markets director with the country’s largest multifamily developer, where he was responsible for the legal-heavy investment and financing activities of the company’s East Coast operations; executive of a boutique real estate investment and merchant bank in Miami, where he was responsible for managing investment and financing processes, including negotiation of all business terms in legal documentation involving debt and equity transactions for condominium and apartment developments and land; and, as a development manager of a real estate investment firm in San Diego focused on institutional debt and equity investments in residential and retail developments.. In providing alternative/consultative services, Mr. Battleson has also: wound-down and sold the hard and intellectual property assets of a manufacturing firm in Georgia; acted as counsel and eCommerce manager with a B2B Internet startup in San Francisco during the dotcom boom; acted as an expert witness providing damages opinions; and, was a member of a small, University of Michigan venture capital fund, placing investments along-side larger firms.. Whether in law firms or investment / asset management firms, Mark has continued to hone his legal skills through the real world negotiation and execution of corporate, transactional, and business contract matters, as well as providing select legal services involving catastrophic and serious injury.  Battleson Law was founded after Mark continued to see and hear business colleagues discuss nuanced “errors” in structures or transactions which were the result of attorneys without financial modeling skill / industry experience being the final preparers of documentation. Mark has been on the business side for much of his career, including responsibility for financial modeling / structuring, and he has first-hand experience of “living with” the documents after the closing. Additionally, Mark continues to selectively represent seriously injured individuals, as he finds it gratifying to provide a superior, business-like level of service and knowledge to honorable and deserving people who are up against large insurance companies or other liable parties.