Michael is the Chair of our Global M&A Team, a partner in Reed Smith's Global Corporate Group, and serves as a member of Reed Smith’s Executive Committee, the Firm’s global governing board. Michael focuses his practice on acting as corporate counsel to businesses and investors. Michael's practice includes mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financing transactions, complex joint ventures, recapitalizations and restructurings, licensing transactions and general corporate counseling. Michael's practice covers a wide range of industries, including health care, manufacturing, financial services, consumer products, food and beverage, telecommunications, and IT/software. Michael also applies his technical background (including a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University) in the representation of technology companies in intellectual property/information technology agreements. Michael currently acts as outside general counsel to numerous companies.