Bio

Michael Weinsier is co-chair of Pryor Cashman’s Mergers + Acquisitions (M+A) and Private Equity Practices, and is a member of the Corporate Group and the Investment Management Practice. He has more than 30 years of experience representing public and private operating companies, strategic buyers and sellers, private equity funds, family offices, and other financial sponsors, as well as their portfolio companies, in domestic, international, and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, financings, and other complex transactions. These transactions include, among others, primary and secondary leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, bolt-on and tuck-in acquisitions, auction bids and auction sale processes, non-control investments, and co-investments. Operating companies, including family-owned and closely held businesses, from a wide array of industries, seek Michael’s counsel on strategic add-on acquisitions and dispositions, debt financings, leveraged dividends, recapitalizations, private placements, public offerings, SEC reporting, and commercial contracts. A seasoned advisor, he often acts as de facto outside general counsel to these companies. Michael also has extensive experience advising emerging companies and institutional investors in a full range of venture capital and other equity financings, spanning from angel to late-stage and crossover rounds, PIPE investments, and large liquidity events, including portfolio company IPOs, acquisitions by strategic buyers, and via de-SPAC transactions. Over the past several years alone, he has represented clients in more than 50 venture and other financings, and related portfolio company transactions, totaling more than $5 billion in value. Michael has been consistently recognized as a leading M+A attorney by The Legal 500 and Super Lawyers.