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Georgia Oak Partners is pleased to announce the selection of Founder and Managing Partner Michael Lonergan for the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2018 40 Under Forty Awards.

Each year, the Atlanta Business Chronicle spotlights the next generation of Atlanta business leaders. Honorees include 40 people under the age of forty who are making a mark in their industries and leading in their communities.

40 Under Forty Honorees include business leaders from various industries who are making significant career achievements and demonstrating social responsibility in their local communities through service and philanthropy.

Learn more about the 40 Under Forty Awards and Lonergan’s fellow honorees here.

About Michael Lonergan

Michael Lonergan works with Georgia Oak’s partner companies to grow revenue, while also evaluating new investment opportunities. Michael’s Georgia roots helped shape our mission and commitment to promoting economic growth and sustainability throughout the state and the broader Southeast.

Prior to founding Georgia Oak, Michael was Vice President of Private Equity for Strategic Value Partners (SVP), a global hedge fund. Based in London, Michael led the diligence efforts on control buyout transactions and evaluated credit investments for SVP’s “loan to own” strategy.

Before joining SVP, Michael was with Sun European Partners in London and Sun Capital Partners in Boca Raton, Fla. Sun Capital is one of the world’s most active turnaround private equity investors. While at Sun Capital, he evaluated and facilitated control buyout investments.

Early in his career, Michael worked at the Atlanta offices of Houlihan Lokey and Wells Fargo’s asset-based lending group (legacy Wachovia Bank).

Michael received a B.B.A., cum laude, in Finance and Management from the Terry College of Business at The University of Georgia. In 2018, he was selected by the Atlanta Business Chronicle as a 40 Under Forty Honoree and by The M&A Advisor as an Emerging Leaders Award Winner. He is an active alumnus of the Beta-Lambda chapter of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. He enjoys working out, tennis, boxing, Georgia Bulldog football and weekend trips to his hometown of St. Simons Island.

Michael and his wife Jacqueline live in Ansley Park (Atlanta) with their son Jordan, daughter Louise, and their dogs Murray and Joni. Jacqueline serves as a Senior Advisor for medic.org, a non-profit that uses communication technologies to improve the health of underserved and disconnected communities.