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

• The Group advises corporate legal departments on legal industry management and cost reduction.

• Mr Tilson reprsents select private companies on growth strategy, business development, and access to capital for expansion. Regularly works with  private equity and venture capital investors making investments and serving as special counsel to portfolio companies.

• Mr Tilson serves as counsel to C-level executives in business development strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and special projects.  He has been retained by Fortune 500 and 1000 public company CEOs to find, license,  acquire, or establish strategic patnerships with technology synergistic to their businesses.