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Michael leverages his legal expertise and private equity and venture capital investment experience to be a trusted adviser for his clients. In addition to the depth of his practice, Michael connects the right people to others within his network to grow their businesses.Michael concentrates his practice in mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, fund formations, and intellectual property. He represents investors, companies, and executives in private equity and venture capital transactions; mergers, acquisitions and restructurings; executive compensation; general contract and intellectual property agreements and the structuring of partnerships, corporations and limited liability companies. He also has extensive experience advising investors in funds and advising funds on their formation and compliance needs (both on-shore and off-shore).
His clients include private equity and venture firms, asset management firms, hedge funds, family offices, publicly traded companies, institutions, entrepreneurs and middle market businesses.
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