 MICHAEL R. NEIDELL
Partner / New York
Michael is a corporate partner with extensive experience negotiating a broad range of transactions. Michael represents buyers and sellers, both public and private, in mergers, tender offers and asset and stock transactions, as well as issuers and investors in public and private equity and debt financings, including initial public and secondary securities offerings, private equity investments and PIPEs. Michael also assists clients in structuring and negotiating joint venture transactions.
Michael's practice regularly consists of advising clients regarding the preparation and filing of '34 Act reports and on corporate governance, securities laws and general corporate and compliance matters.
Prior to joining the firm, Michael was a Director and Senior Transactional Counsel at Ramius, LLC, an investment management firm, and an associate at Proskauer Rose LLP from September 1996 to December 2004.
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
• Representing Tilman J. Fertitta, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Landry's Restaurants, Inc., in a $1.0 billion management buyout of Landry's.
• Represented dELiA*s, Inc., a direct marketing and retail company, in the $103 million sale of assets related to its CCS business to Foot Locker, Inc.
• Represented NuCO2 Inc., a Nasdaq-listed company, in its $487 million acquisition by Aurora Capital Group, a private equity firm.
• Represented GlobalOptions Group, Inc., a Nasdaq-listed company, in its capital restructuring and $20 million underwritten public offering.
• Represented Golden Nugget, Inc. in its $155 million tender offer and consent solicitation for its 8.75% senior secured notes.
• Represented Steel Partners in its unsolicited $100 million cash tender offer for a NYSE-listed company. After commencing a consent solicitation to remove the Company's Board of Directors, successfully negotiated a friendly merger transaction.
• Represented Portside Growth and Opportunity Fund, a Ramius fund, in over 50 PIPE investments.
• Represented Alcatel in the $63.5 million sale by Alcatel and Corning Incorporated of their optical components businesses to Avanex Corporation.
• Represented Donna Karan International Inc. in its $240 million public merger with an entity owned by LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton S.A., Donna Karan and Stephan Weiss.
• Represented 24/7 Real Media, Inc. in its $55.2 million underwritten public offering of common stock.
• Represented Celgene Corporation in its $400 million Rule 144A offering of senior convertible notes.
• Represented National Broadcasting Company, Inc. it its $30 million common stock investment in World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, Inc.
BAR ADMISSIONS
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