Mike is co-head of the firm’s Corporate Team. He has an extensive corporate securities and mergers and acquisitions practice that is focused on the energy industry. His practice includes a particular emphasis on representation of issuers and underwriters in energy-related public and private offerings of equity and debt securities (including IPOs); representation of buyers, sellers and special committees in mergers and acquisitions (domestic and foreign) and of private equity firms’ investments in energy and energy infrastructure; redemptions and exchanges of corporate debt; negotiating complex partnerships and joint ventures; structuring spin-offs and “going private” transactions; and corporate governance.

Mike has also been actively involved in energy transition infrastructure projects, including CCUS infrastructure, and clean hydrogen and ammonia infrastructure, projects and voluntary carbon credits and the purchase and sale of low carbon intensity natural gas for blue hydrogen production. He has represented clients in connection with more than 550 public and private offerings of debt, equity and preferred securities totaling over $200 billion and more than 295 M&A transactions totaling over $178 billion.

Chambers USA notes that clients have described Mike as “one of the most experienced and knowledgeable securities lawyers" and “a well-regarded and distinguished practitioner”.

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Education
JD, University of Houston Law Center, with honors, 1980

BS, Finance, The University of Alabama, cum laude, 1977

• Inbound U.S. M&A: Decline of the Dollar Attracts Foreign Buyers, Financier Worldwide
• JOBS Act Options for General Counsel to Ponder in IPOs, In-House Texas, A Publication of Texas Lawyer in Association with The General Counsel Forum
• Congress Pushes Forward Executive Compensation Regulation and Say on Pay Legislation
• Administration Unveils Over-The-Counter Derivatives Reform
• Obama Administration Announces Financial Regulatory Overhaul
• Summary of Key Differences Among PDP Securitizations, RBLs, VPPs, and High Yield Debt, Thomson Reuters Practical Law
• Oil & Gas Asset-Backed Securitizations, Thomson Reuters Practical Law
• AK Migration: SEC Proposes Rules to Implement the Dodd-Frank Act’s Mine Safety Disclosure Requirements
• AK Migration: Oil and Gas Companies Should Expect Increased SEC Scrutiny of Operations and Reserves
• FERC Declaratory Order Creates Uncertainty for Marketing Affiliates
• Pay Ratio Not Applicable to Certain Externally-Managed Issuers
• AK Migration: SEC Proposes Disclosure Rules for Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers
• SEC Proposes Pay Ratio Disclosure Rule
• SEC Re-Proposes Disclosure Rules for Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers
• AK Migration: SEC Replaces Credit Ratings with New Wide Market Following Test for Shelf Registration Statement Eligibility
• AK Migration: DC Circuit Panel Vacates Proxy Access Rule
• AK Migration: SEC Proposes Rules for Compensation Committees and Compensation Advisers
• SEC Charges Public Companies and Insiders with Violating Stock Ownership Reporting Requirements
• SEC Adopts Rule Permitting Use of Form 10-K Summary
• SEC Staff Updates Proxy “Unbundling” Guidance for M&A Transactions
• SEC Proposes Pay Versus Performance Disclosure Rule
• SEC Issues Pay Ratio Disclosure Guidance
• The Conflict Minerals Rule: Important Recent Developments
• AK Migration: Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act: Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation Provisions
• Delaware Chancery Court Confirms an MLP’s Right to Contractually Eliminate Fiduciary Duties, Including the Duty of Disclosure
• 2019 Retail Industry Year in Review
• AK Migration: Recent Ruling Allows a Shareholder Lawsuit to Proceed After a Negative Say-on-Pay Vote: Quirk or Harbinger?
• AK Migration: PCAOB Considers Changes to Standards for Auditors’ Reports on Audited Financial Statements
• AK Migration: PCAOB Floats Possibility of Mandatory Audit Firm Rotation
• AK Migration: SEC Proposes Amendments to Issuer Repurchase Rule
• AK Migration: DC Circuit’s Proxy Access Decision to Stand, but SEC to Allow “Private Ordering” of Proxy Access
• SEC Adopts Rules Implementing Dodd-Frank Disclosure Requirements for Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers
• SEC Issues Partial Stay of Conflict Minerals Rule
• SEC Adopts Pay Ratio Disclosure Rule
• Dodd-Frank Rollback Begins – Congress Overturns SEC’s Resource Extraction Issuer Payment Disclosure Rule
• Conflict Minerals Rule Update: Court Denies Request for Stay
• SEC Charges Investors Participating in Going Private Transactions with Violating Beneficial Ownership Reporting Requirements
• SEC Provides Guidance on Dodd-Frank Conflict Minerals Rule
• Key Points For Lenders Taking Control Of Oil And Gas Assets, Law360
• Takeaways From SEC Comments On New Oil, Gas Rules, Law360
• Midstream Energy REITs: A New Structure
• Commentary: EPA Must Approve Primacy for Texas CCS Wells, Hart Energy