Jamie M. Konn

Jamie M. Konn

Partner
About

Jamie Konn partners with his clients to efficiently address their challenges, develop creative strategies, and implement practical solutions across a wide range of legal issues.  As a business-minded lawyer, Jamie manages several global client relationships for the firm.

A significant portion of Jamie’s practice is focused on advising private-equity funds and companies in connection with mergers, acquisitions, sales, and other corporate transactions. Over the past 15+ years, Jamie has been involved in hundreds of transactions, with deal values ranging from less than $10 million USD to well over $1 billion USD. Jamie and his team handle all employment-related aspects of those transactions, including purchase agreements, restrictive covenants, employment documentation, due diligence, and workforce integration.

Jamie is responsible for managing the full range of labor and employment needs of the firm’s clients in the Southeast. You will often find him litigating fast-paced restrictive covenant cases or complex executive termination cases before state and federal courts or in arbitration. He regularly advises clients on various issues related to their workforce (e.g., employee complaints and investigations, executive engagement and terminations, restrictive covenants, and federal and state law compliance).  And he represents clients in labor-management disputes and negotiations.

Jamie also works with companies facing activist strategic campaigns (also referred to as corporate campaigns) by coordinating DLA Piper's resources to implement and execute a comprehensive response on a national and global basis. He helps clients develop and execute strategies to manage such campaigns by identifying and evaluating campaign-related conduct, coordinating a response, engaging with shareholders and government policymakers, implementing effective media strategies, and using litigation to combat disruptive activity.

Jamie’s clients range from early-stage companies, to venture capital, to private equity funds and their portfolio companies, to Fortune 500 companies. His clients also come from various industries, such as construction, professional services, retail, technology, insurance, and healthcare.

Areas of FocusEmploymentCorporate
Bar admissionsDistrict of ColumbiaGeorgiaVirginia
CourtsSupreme Court of the United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of AppealsSupreme Court of VirginiaUnited States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitUnited States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh CircuitUnited States District Court for the Northern District of GeorgiaUnited States District Court for the District of ColumbiaUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of VirginiaUnited States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Education
  • J.D., George Washington University Law School
    Order of the Coif
    magna cum laude
  • B.A., Psychology, Tufts University

Memberships And Affiliations

  • State Bar of Georgia
  • Bar Association of the District of Columbia
  • Virginia Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta, Advisory Council 
  • Leadership Georgia (Class of 2018)

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