Practice Expertise

  • Capital Markets and Securities
  • Energy
  • Energy and Infrastructure
  • Corporate

Areas of Practice

  • Capital Markets and Securities
  • Corporate
  • Energy
  • Energy and Infrastructure
  • Energy Finance and Securitization
  • Power and Energy Capital Markets
  • Power and Utilities Capital Markets
  • Public Finance
  • Public Utility Securitization
  • Structured Finance and Securitization
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Profile

Michael’s practice focuses on representing issuers and underwriters in capital markets transactions, principally in the power and utilities arena.

Michael has extensive experience advising clients on a broad range of securities transactions including public and privately placed offerings of equity, first mortgage bonds, various debt/equity hybrid instruments, subordinated and convertible debt, collateral trust bonds, multi-modal tax-exempt bonds and dedicated utility rate securitization bonds.

Relevant Experience

  • Advises clients on corporate governance and compliance matters with the US securities laws, including Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Dodd-Frank Act.
  • Represented power and utilities clients on securities offerings.
  • Served as designated underwriters’ counsel and purchasers’ counsel to several utility holding companies and their subsidiaries.
  • Represented sponsors/issuers, underwriters and structuring advisors in connection with several dedicated rate reduction bond securitization financings, including stranded cost, environmental costs, and storm cost transactions.
  • Pro bono representation of veterans in their pursuit of combat-related special compensation benefits..

Bar Admissions

  • New York

Education
BS, Villanova University, cum laude, 1983

Areas of Practice

  • Capital Markets and Securities
  • Corporate
  • Energy
  • Energy and Infrastructure
  • Energy Finance and Securitization
  • Power and Energy Capital Markets
  • Power and Utilities Capital Markets
  • Public Finance
  • Public Utility Securitization
  • Structured Finance and Securitization

Professional Career

Significant Accomplishments
  • Advises clients on corporate governance and compliance matters with the US securities laws, including Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Dodd-Frank Act.
  • Represented utility clients on securities offerings.
  • Served as designated underwriters' counsel to several utility holding companies and their subsidiaries.
  • Represented underwriters in connection with several utility rate reduction bond securitization financings, including stranded cost and storm cost transactions.


Professional Associations
  • Vice Chairman, Infrastructure Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions Committee of the Section of Infrastructure and Regulated Industries, American Bar Association
  • Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

Professional Activities and Experience
  • Chambers Global: USA, Energy: Electricity (Finance), Band 1, 2015-2017
  • Chambers USA, Energy: Electricity (Finance), Band 1, 2012-2017
  • Chambers USA, Energy, 2006-2012
  • Deal Maker of the Year, Finance Monthly, 2013
  • New York Super Lawyer, Business/Corporate Law, 2013-2016. A description of the selection methodology can be found on Super Lawyers’ webpage.


Articles

  • Electronic Roadshows: Why The Voice-Over Matters, Law360
  • High-Cost Debt Refinance — Is Everybody Going Dutch?, Law360
  • The Case for Superstorm Sandy Restoration Bonds, PowerIntelligence
  • Understanding Storm Cost Recovery Bonds, Law 360
  • The Rating Agency Condition: A Cautionary Note, Total Securitization

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