Mike helps companies raise capital through private equity transactions.
He counsels clients regarding a wide variety of fund formations, including private equity, mezzanine and timber fund formations. With a decade in corporate practice, Mike works extensively on leveraged buyouts (LBOs), venture capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, and private placements of securities at all levels of financing, as well as general corporate governance.
- Represented IGM Financial, one of Canada's largest diversified wealth and asset management companies, in its purchase of an approximately 20.5 percent equity interest in Rockefeller Capital Management, for consideration of approximately $622 million.
- Represented Aptera Motor Corp in its acquisition of Andromeda Interfaces, Inc., a California corporation.
- Represented Noble Systems Corporation, a leader in the contact center solutions space, in its sale and related financing to Aspect Software, Inc., which was in turn being simultaneously purchased by Abry Capital Partners.
- Advised Resurgent Financial Advisors LLC in connection with its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of East Franklin Capital, LLC, a registered investment adviser headquartered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
- Advised in the sale of a majority equity interest in Element Markets, LLC to TPG’s The Rise Fund.
- The State of Cannabis Law: A Fifty State Compendium, May 18, 2020, Wolters Kluwer
- Recognized by The Legal 500 United States in the area of and mergers and acquisitions: middle-market (2018-2022)
- Selected for inclusion in Georgia Super Lawyers® “Rising Stars” (2017-2018)
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Business Law Section, State Bar of Georgia
- Member, Southern Capital Forum
- Board Member, Junior of Achievement of Georgia
- Georgia
- B.B.A., cum laude, Mercer University
- J.D., cum laude, Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law,
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