Marbury Rainer Attorney and Counsellor

Areas of Practice

  • Director and Officer Representation, Including Board Special Committees

  • Ownership and Shareholder Disputes

  • Corporate Governance

  • Business Valuations

  • Corporate Investigations

  • Commercial Disputes

  • Alternative Dispute Resolution and Mediation of Business and Complex Commercial Disputes

  • Insurance Coverage Disputes

  • Restructuring & Bankruptcy of Corporations

  • Mergers and Acquisitions, Including Disputes Arising from Representations and Warranties, Indemnities, Insurance, and Antitrust Issues

  • Expert Witness Services For Actions Involving Attorney Ethics and Standards of Care

  • Accountant Liability Issues

 

About

  • Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1975), Board of Student Advisors

  • University of Alabama (B.A., 1970), Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, Jasons Senior Honorary

After graduating from the University of Alabama in 1970, Marbury served two years as a lieutenant in the United States Army, serving as a finance officer in the United States Southern Command, Panama Canal Zone. In 1972, he entered Harvard Law School, graduating in 1975.  He then joined the Atlanta law firm King & Spalding as an associate attorney, where he practiced until early 1981, when he left to become a founding partner of Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs. He retired from the firm on December 31, 2019, and continues his law practice as The Rainer Firm.

Through his 45 year career Marbury Rainer has been a counsellor and litigator for countless businesses and individuals.  He has extensive experience representing public and private companies and their officers and boards. Throughout his career Marbury has guided his corporate clients through all manner of litigation, investigations, and governance matters. 

Representing public and private companies and those who manage and oversee them, Marbury has worked on a wide range of corporate governance matters and securities litigation, including disputes over M&A transactions and agreements,, accounting restatements, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, trade secrets, insurance coverage, real estate transactions, and breach of contract. He also regularly represented healthcare clients in antitrust matters and medical staff disputes. Marbury’s extensive litigation experience includes class actions, derivative suits, and federal government investigations. Marbury also served as his prior firm’s General Counsel and is often called upon as an expert witness on corporate governance issues and standards of care involving claims against attorneys and law firms.