Gerardo M. Balboni II Member (404) 812-3111 Direct Dial (404) 812-3101 Fax gbalboni@balaw.com
Practice Areas:	Corporate Technology
Education:	JD: Cumberland School of Law of Samford University, cum laude, 1984 MBA: Stetson University 1977 BA: University of South Florida 1975
Admitted to Practice:	Georgia 1984

Gerry Balboni has over twenty years of corporate law experience representing growth companies and individuals that buy, sell, and invest in growth businesses. Gerry represents growth companies seeking venture capital investment, venture capital and private equity funds, buyers and sellers of businesses, and licensors and licensees of technology and software. Gerry speaks to groups on topics such as software licensing, acquisition of technology companies, venture capital, and controlling legal costs in corporate finance transactions.

Gerry has written the recent developments column for the Technology Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia, and has written articles on topics involving venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, securities, and taxation. Gerry is a member of and an active participant in the Atlanta Venture Forum, the Technology Alliance of Georgia, the Computer Law Association, the committees on the Law of Cyberspace, Small Business, and Negotiated Acquisitions of the Business and Banking Law Section of the American Bar Association, and the Technology Section of the State Bar of Georgia.

Gerry graduated from the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida in 1975 with a B.A. in English, from The Graduate School of Business of Stetson University in DeLand, Florida in 1977 with an M.B.A., and from The Cumberland School of Law of Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama in 1984 with a J.D. cum laude. Gerry was an Associate Editor of the CUMBERLAND LAW REVIEW, 1982-1984, an Associate Justice of the Henry Upson Sims Moot Court Board, 1983-1984, a member of The Order of Barristers, and a recipient of Curia Honoris.

Gerry refounded Balboni Law Group LLC in February of 2003. Prior to refounding Balboni Law Group LLC, Gerry was a partner in the ebusiness and technology group of Baker Donelson Bearman and Caldwell, PC from February 2001 to February 2003, a partner of Balboni Law Group LLC from June 1995 through February 2001, a partner in the corporate technology group of Morris, Manning and Martin from October 1993 until May 1995, an associate in the corporate finance group at Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy from January 1988 to October 1993, and an associate in the corporate department of Parker, Johnson, Cook & Dunlevie (now the Atlanta office of Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice) from June 1984 to December 1987.

Prior to attending law school, Gerry sold mini and mainframe computer systems, manufacturing software applications, data communications networks, and distributed processing networks to manufacturing companies in Central Florida for the CI-MEG group of NCR Corporation in Orlando, Florida from August 1977 until August 1981.

Gerry is married with two children. When he is not practicing law, he enjoys fly-fishing, gardening, cooking, and relaxing at Lake Chatuge.