USA
Practice Areas
Michael Woronoff has been one of California’s leading transactional lawyers for over three decades. He advises leading private equity firms in their most complex transactions, and is a trusted advisor to several senior PE fund managers, entrepreneurs, and family-owned businesses in a variety of industries. He represents clients in complex private equity, M&A and restructuring transactions, debt and equity financings, and various other corporate and securities law matters, including SEC reporting, corporate governance, and strategic alliances. The Daily Journal has named him nine times as one of the top 100 lawyers in California. He has twice been awarded Lexology’s Client Choice Award in the category of M&A (California). Clients describe him as “incredibly talented and excellent to work with,” “the person I turn to when I have a tough issue,” “very pragmatic and results oriented,” “100% focused on providing exceptional service,” and “literally one of the best attorneys with whom I have ever worked.”
Professional Memberships
Board of Directors, Alexandria Real Estate Equities (NYSE: ARE); Board of Trustees, Alliance College-Ready Public Schools Foundation; Board of Trustees, Commentary Magazine; Board of Governors, Cedars Sinai Medical Center; Dean’s Advisory Council, Purdue University Daniels School of Business; Board of Advisors, Purdue Global’s Law School; Adjunct Professor, UCLA School of Law
Publications
Capitalism—Now More Than Ever (Commentary Magazine); Friedman’s Choice (Commentary Magazine); As Ye Sowell, So Shall Ye Reap (Commentary Magazine); The Billionaire Hater (Commentary Magazine); Put a Stake in Stakeholder Capitalism (Commentary Magazine); Regulatory Shockwaves Threaten Silicon Valley – When Private Investments Become Public Problems (Financier Worldwide); Is It Time for a Private Equity Boom in Mexico? (Financier Worldwide); Effective vs. Nominal Valuations in Venture Capital Investing (NYU Journal of Law and Business); Understanding Anti-Dilution Provisions in Convertible Securities (Fordham Law Review); Teaching Numeracy (Tennessee Journal of Business Law); Using a Venture Capital Class to Teach Transactional Skills (Tennessee Journal of Business Law)
Personal
J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 1985; MSIA, Purdue Krannert Graduate Institute at the Daniels School of Business, 1982; BSIM, Purdue University Daniels School of Business, 1982.
