Michael Silverman Bio

Mike is a business and tax lawyer. He advises clients in negotiating and structuring mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, and with respect to transition, succession and exit planning. Mike serves as general corporate counsel for local, regional and national privately-held businesses and private equity and venture capital funds. Mike also has significant experience in forming and counseling ESOPs and private equity funds, and representing individuals and businesses in federal, state and local tax audits. Mike's experience covers a broad range of matters, including Exit and Succession Planning, recapitalizations, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, forming ESOPs and structuring and financing transactions with ESOPs, and private equity capital transactions. Mike has represented businesses and business owners, individual investors, universities and institutional investors, and private equity and venture capital funds in these transactions. Mike provides general day-to-day legal and business advice for private companies in a variety of industries, and he also acts as a strategic business counselor to his clients as they consider important business decisions and long-term investments. Mike's practice includes clients in many different industries, including manufacturing, energy, defense, chemicals, real estate, software, construction and financial services.