Bio

Michael Weinsier co-chairs Pryor Cashman’s Private Equity Practice and is a member of the Corporate and Investment Management Groups. 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, debt financings, leveraged dividends, recapitalizations, private placements, public offerings, and SEC reporting, as well as 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, as well as PIPE investments, and in large liquidity events, including portfolio company IPOs, acquisitions by strategic buyers and via de-SPAC transactions. Michael has been consistently recognized as a leading M&A attorney by The Legal 500 and Super Lawyers.