Mike is a corporate mergers and acquisitions partner who also advises clients on joint ventures, critical commercial arrangements and capital raising transactions.
Mike advises clients across a broad range of industries, most frequently involving digital and technology services, building materials and other industrial products, or wholesale distribution. His clients consist of entrepreneurs, long-established public or privately held businesses, and private equity firms and their portfolio companies. Recent examples include businesses involved in cybersecurity and encryption, telemedicine platforms, electric vehicle infrastructure, aerospace manufacturing, building and construction products and food and beverage distribution.
Whether your needs are forming a new venture and raising seed capital, acquiring or divesting an entire business or division, or negotiating a key distribution agreement or strategic alliance, Mike’s goal is to leverage his years of legal, financial and business experience to provide practical and efficient solutions to your most critical challenges. Prior to joining the firm in 2007, Mike gained valuable corporate perspective as the director of business development and marketing for a digital media and software company, and valuable financial acumen as an M&A investment banker with Merrill Lynch.
Mike is recognized as a mentor to newer attorneys and currently serves as the firm’s hiring partner in Atlanta. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking and travelling with his family, and pushing himself as a novice race car driver.
- Advised GEODIS, a world leader in transport and logistics headquartered in France, on entering into an agreement to acquire the US-based logistics company Need It Now Delivers.
- Advised the Safran Group on its sale of Safran Aerosystems Arresting Company (SAA), a designer and manufacturer of military aircraft emergency arresting systems, to Curtis-Wright Corporation for $240 million in cash.
- Represented Gypsum Management and Supply, Inc., a leading North American specialty distributor of interior building products, in the acquisition of AMES Taping Tools Holding LLC for total value of $212.5 million in cash.
- Represented MicroCorp LLC in its sale to AppSmart.
- Represented Safran S.A., a global tier-one supplier of systems and equipment to the aviation, defense, and space markets, on the sale of its Base2 Solutions subsidiary to Belcan, LLC.
- Partnering Perspectives: Insights from Inside and Outside the Corporate Law Department, Fall 2016, Partnering Perspectives
- recognized by The Legal 500 United States in the area of mergers and acquisitions: middle market (2017-2019)
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Business and Technology Law Sections, Georgia Bar Association
- Member, Atlanta Bar Association
- Member, American Israeli Chamber of Commerce
- Member, Southern Capital Forum
- Volunteer, Truancy Intervention Project
- Member, Atlanta Chapter, Association for Corporate Growth
- Member, MIT Enterprise Forum
- Georgia
- J.D., cum laude, Duke University School of Law
- B.A., with high distinction, University of Michigan