Martin Tilson is a respected attorney, business counselor, and innovative leader with thirty years experience focused on business growth.  He has demonstrated success working as a strategic counselor to C-level executives and Boards of Directors on strategic objectives.  As a well-known leader in the Southeast technology community, Mr. Tilson has managed more than 300 venture and private equity transactions, and managed numerous acquisitions, divestitures, and public offerings.  An experienced manager of professional service firms, he has built three highly successful technology law practices while providing leadership at the firm management level.  His areas of practice have included general corporate, M&A, corporate finance, securities, and private capital investment.  (See Bio, Leadership, Transactions & Engagements)

Mr. Tilson is the managing partner of The Tilson Group, a specialized advisory services firm that draws upon a combination of Mr. Tilson’s legal, business advisory, business development, and Federal government relations experience.  The Group primarily advises corporate legal departments on legal industry management and cost reduction. 

The Tilson Group maintains a partnership with a select affiliate group of senior professionals, who deliver best practices depending on each engagement.

In addition to leading The Tilson Group, Mr. Tilson continues to personally work on a select basis in two areas:

• Providing counsel to C-level executives in business development strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and special projects.  He has been retained by Fortune 1000 public company CEOs to find technology synergistic to their businesses, and acquire the company or license the technology. 
• Representing private capital investors on investments and strategic growth for their portfolio companies.  He will selectively advise private growth companies on financing strategy and access to private capital.