Profile

  • American Bar Association
  • New York State Bar Association
  • Note and Comment Editor, Buffalo Law Review

Mike has led transactions in a wide variety of industries, including advanced manufacturing, aerospace, agribusiness, real estate and insurance.  Representative transactions include:

  • Counsel to various publicly held real estate investment trusts in connection with
    • twenty public offerings aggregating $890 million
    • $62 million offer to common equity in exchange for outstanding public debt
    • various continuous equity “at the market” offerings registering in excess of $750 million
  • Counsel to a publicly held agribusiness company in connection with
    • various acquisitions of operating companies aggregating $215 million
    • $68 million offering by an institutional selling shareholder
  • Counsel to a publicly held advanced manufacturing company in connection with
    • $90 million acquisition of a business with operations in North America and Europe
    • the acquisition of a public company by merger and the related registered exchange offer of common stock issued in the transaction

  • Blessed Sacrament Parish Council, Member
  • Enterprise Charter School, Chair
  • Olmsted Home School Association, Treasurer
  • Member, National Alumni Association Board (NAAB), St. Bonaventure University
  • Event Committee Member, St. Bonaventure Gaudete Medal Awards Ceremony
  • Graduate, Leadership Buffalo, Class of 2013