Bio

Michael Elliott has 40 years of experience in representing business clients, institutional trustees, and financial institutions in M&A, corporate finance, commercial law, and general business matters. Mike’s work as corporate counsel involves matters ranging from counseling management and corporate boards on corporate governance and legal compliance to structuring, negotiating, and documenting complex business and commercial transactions and arrangements, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, and joint ventures. Mike’s work in the corporate counsel area also includes a specialized range of experience in advising colleges and universities with respect to monetizing and commercializing institutional assets for purposes of creating alternative streams of revenue, including negotiating sponsorship arrangements, multimedia rights agreements, and concession agreements for food and beverage, facility management, and parking services. In addition to a conventional M&A practice, Mike also has substantive experience in advising business owners and institutional trustees in transactions involving the use of leveraged ESOPs as a means of transitioning business ownership to employee stock ownership plans. On the commercial finance and commercial law side of his practice, Mike routinely handles commercial loan and capital financing transactions on behalf of both business clients and as outside and local counsel to regional and national institutional lenders, and he has significant experience in structuring and negotiating workout arrangements and acquisitions of companies out of bankruptcy. Mike also is involved in the Tucker Ellis nonprofit organizations practice where he represents various educational institutions and charitable organizations in a wide array of general matters. Mike is deeply committed to providing clients with the highest quality of legal services at affordable costs, and his by-words are simple—“competency, integrity, and service.”