Cathy Hampton

Cathy Hampton is a partner in the Entertainment and Sports and Corporate practice groups at Greenspoon Marder LLP. She offers a dynamic blend of transactional, corporate, regulatory, intellectual property, and litigation expertise, ensuring her clients’ needs are met with precision and insight. As a former public and private sector chief legal officer, she specializes in high-value mergers and acquisitions, finance, high-stakes disputes, and conflict resolution.

After three decades in public and private practice, she launched her own firm with a thriving roster of elite NBA, NFL, SEC, ACC, MEAC and PAC12 athletes. As a founding partner in the sports, entertainment and hospitality space, Ms. Hampton executed over $100 million in brand partnerships with Fortune 100 companies. She has led major transactions across various industries, including global sports sponsorships, the consolidation of a global bank conglomerate, the sale of an international hospitality brand, a construction merger, and the sale and purchase of multiple business assets for athletes, actors, producers, and TV film and digital creatives. She leverages her extensive experience to mediate complex corporate and regulatory conflicts, fostering mutually beneficial resolutions and minimizing litigation risk.

Prior to joining Greenspoon Marder, Ms. Hampton guided a national firm through an eight-figure acquisition, managing risk and navigating changes to headcount and served as outside general counsel in the Seattle and Montreal offices of a global aviation company. She also led the nine-figure dissolution of a Fortune 1000 company as its chief legal officer, integrating legal, risk management, and human resources functions in the newly merged Fortune 400 company.

Ms. Hampton served as City Attorney for the City of Atlanta, where she led legal operations for one of the country’s most prominent municipal governments. During her tenure, she received several notable accolades recognizing her legal acumen and civic leadership. She played a key role in facilitating complex, high-impact transactions that reshaped the city’s landscape, including the 20-year extension of the Delta Air Lines lease, the development of Ponce City Market, the Porsche Cars North America Inc. headquarters, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, and the sales of Fort McPherson and Underground Atlanta.

As a passionate advocate for her community, Ms. Hampton has held numerous leadership and advisory roles across civic, legal, and nonprofit organizations. She formerly chaired the Corporate Counsel Section of the State Bar of Georgia, served on the Board of Directors for Planned Parenthood Federation of America and led fundraising as Economic Justice Chair for the Atlanta Women’s Foundation. She has also served as a board member of the Women’s Resource Center to End Domestic Violence and VOX Teen Communications and is currently active on the Leadership Atlanta Investment Committee and the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Social Action Committee.