Summary
Mike is a corporate partner at Taft who focuses his practice on mergers, acquisitions, investments, and divestitures in the middle market.
He partners with financial sponsors to execute their investment strategies, handling everything from high-stakes, billion-dollar platform acquisitions and divestitures to million-dollar tuck-ins for buy-and-build strategies to post-investment integration and day-to-day corporate governance.
In addition, Mike assists companies in all stages of growth in a variety of transactional matters, including entity structure, formation, corporate governance, and financing transactions.
Mike’s approach is built on being a “first-call” advisor for his clients, both sponsors and management, to ensure the long-term value of his clients’ investments are protected. His goal is to distill legal risks into practical commercial terms so his clients can move more quickly and be more confident in their decisions.
Mike also assists pension plans, endowments, and high-net-worth clients with investments in all types of alternative investment vehicles.
Mike is admitted to practice in California, Massachusetts, and Ohio and is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in Massachusetts.
Awards
Honoree, Ohio Super Lawyers Rising Stars (2021)
All Service Areas
Education
- Harvard Law School
- The Ohio State University
Fisher College of Business, Master of Accounting
Admissions
- State - California
- State - Massachusetts
- State - Ohio
Notable Matters
Experience prior to joining Taft:
- Represented Gridiron Capital in the sale of Foundation Wellness, a leading consumer wellness platform that designs, manufactures, markets, and sells high-value branded wellness products, to Bansk Group.
- Represented the buyer in its acquisition of the majority interest in a plumbing and HVAC repair and contracting company located in Tennessee.
- Represented state pension plan with more than $30 billion in assets in connection with a $1 billion separately managed account investing in European debt and a $400 million single investor fund involved in loan originations.
- Represented California county pension plan with more than $13 billion in assets in connection with a $150 million investment in a multi-strategy hedge fund and a $175 investment into a commingled real estate fund.
- Served as counsel to buyer KB Holding Inc. in the acquisitions of Kings Food Markets and Balducci’s Food Lover’s Market from Angelo, Gordon & Co. and MTN Capital Partners LLC.
- Represented Trident Capital in the sale of MedSave.
- Represented ERISA plan with more than $3 million in assets in connection with a $250 million multi-strategy commingled fund.