Stephen A. Opler -Board of Directors Member, Co-Founder

Steve Opler is a business consultant and legal advisor to a variety of clients, including the ninth largest North American investment bank. Formerly, Opler was with the Capital Markets Group of Alston & Bird LLP, an international law firm headquartered in Atlanta. He focused on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, corporate governance and securities matters. His tenure there spanned 17 years and was a partner in the firm for ten years.

Georgia Trend magazine selected him as one of “The Legal Elite: Georgia’s Most Effective Lawyers.” For two consecutive years Law & Politics magazine named him one of “Georgia’s Super Lawyers.”

Opler’s practice has included the representation of public and private companies in sophisticated corporate finance transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, public and private securities offerings, compliance matters and tax issues among others. Over the past ten years, Opler completed acquisitions with an aggregate transaction value in excess of $1.2 billion.

A graduate of the University of Virginia with a concentration in accounting, he sat for and passed the CPA exam. He also earned a J.D. from the University of Alabama and is a member of the State Bar of Georgia and the Atlanta Bar Association.

As an active volunteer and resident of Atlanta, he serves on the boards of directors of Hands On Atlanta and The Temple and on the Operating Board of The Commerce Club. He was the recipient of the Piedmont Hospital/Atlanta Braves’ 2004 Outstanding Community Leader Award.