Michele (Mike) focuses his practice on employee benefits, counseling clients on employee benefit plan design, implementation and compliance, as well as employee benefits issues that arise in connection with mergers and acquisitions.
In addition, Mike provides advice and guidance on the feasibility, design, and installation of employee stock ownership plans from inception to maturity across various industries. Mike has broad experience representing businesses considering the transition to ESOP-ownership, as well as advising trustees of employee stock ownership trusts involved in ESOP transactions. Mike also has experience counseling ESOP-owned businesses through audits and examinations of their ESOPs by the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Labor.
Representative Experience
- Represented Alpine Investors and its portfolio company Ascend, a provider of practice management services to accounting businesses, in an add-on acquisition.
- Represented a private equity buyer in its acquisition of a wholesale distributor of pipes, valves, and fittings for an enterprise value of $190,000,000.00.
- 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 a company engaged in the sale and servicing of first responder vehicles.
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Represented IntegriChain, a portfolio company of Nordic Capital, in its acquisition of BridgeView Data Solutions, a commercial data warehouse and data aggregation business.
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Represented a fertility practice and its associated ambulatory surgical center in their sale to a fertility clinic.
- Represented private equity sponsor in its simultaneous acquisitions of an oncology practice service provider and a group purchasing organization.