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Erica Opitz

Chamberlain Hrdlicka, United States

Work Department

Corporate, Securities & Finance

Position

Shareholder

Career

Erica Opitz is a shareholder in the firm’s Atlanta office in the Corporate, Securities, and Finance practice group. Often serving as a client’s outside general counsel, Ms. Opitz assists clients with corporate governance, commercial contract, mergers and acquisitions, and privately-held securities matters.  Ms. Opitz also serves as the Atlanta office’s primary drafter of Georgia legal opinions.  

Ms. Opitz has represented clients across a variety of industries, including the moving and storage, merchant services, certified public accounting, investment management, airplane battery manufacturing, building supply distribution, chiropractic, waste and recycling, chicken processing, fast food, and plastic bottle manufacturing industries. 

Education

Mercer University School of Law, Juris Doctor, cum laude, 2010; Mercer Law Review, Member, 2008-2009; Mercer Law Review, Administrative Editor, 2009-2010; Advanced Legal Writing Certificate; Brainerd Curie Honor Society; Julius Gholson Memorial Academic Scholarship Recipient

Binghamton University, State University of New York, Bachelor of Arts in History, Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy Politics and Law, cum laude, 2007