The Minkin Group LLC brings deep insight and substantive counsel to our clients’ most pressing challenges and complex issues.
We provide legal and business representation to mid-size, small, and emerging-growth companies.
Principal
David Minkin began his career at Jones, Bird & Howell, now Alston & Bird, establishing Minkin & Snyder in 1986. In 2000 he merged with the Atlanta office of Greenberg Traurig. As managing partner, Minkin built Greenberg Traurig into one of Atlanta’s largest national and international firms. He has been consistently ranked as a Georgia “Super Lawyer.”
Minkin has served in numerous civic positions including Board Chair for the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta; Board Member of the Atlanta-Fulton County Recreational Authority; Vice Chair for the Jewish Federations of North America; and President of the Atlanta Jewish Academy. He is a Leadership Atlanta alumni and a Wexner Foundation Heritage Fellow.
Minkin is a graduate of Cornell University, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Business School. He is a professor of commercial real estate law at Emory University Law School.
Practice Areas
The Minkin Group works with confidence and agility across an unusual spectrum of business and legal opportunities.
Commercial real estate
Financial Restructure
Mediation
Public-private partnership
Family business structuring & succession planning
Executive & family disputes
Crisis management & conflict resolution
Strategic planning
Organizational development
Experience
The Minkin Group helps its clients navigate shifting landscapes by combining substantive understanding of complex issues with disciplined execution of crisp solutions.
Examples:
$800 million restructure with prominent developer involving property in seven states, major sports team and 20 lenders, representing major national bank.
Various family business restructures and executive suite restructures arising out of internal family disputes and inadequate succession planning.
General counsel for business converting municipal solid waste into ethanol, handling for that client the negotiation of joint venture agreements covering over 40 international markets.
Negotiations regarding research sponsorship agreements and license agreements with major United States universities, representing several clients.
Negotiations for purchase of major league sports team, representing anonymous client.
Negotiations with Major League Baseball to take over major league team, representing national bank.
Development of business parks throughout Southeast United States, representing major oil company.
Development of a 300-acre business park in Atlanta, representing prominent developer.
Development of a 4-million square foot distribution center in Atlanta, representing major distribution center developer.
Management and sale of The Algonquin Hotel in New York City, representing owner and management company.
Negotiations with a major Wall Street firm to unravel a derivatives transaction, representing a major city in the United States.