Michael Ringler

Partner at S&C since 2024. Co-Head of the Firm’s Technology Practice. Mike Ringler represents boards, special committees and management teams on complex strategic transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and other transformative business transactions. He also regularly advises boards and special committees when confronting challenges to corporate control, including unsolicited acquisition proposals, hostile takeovers, proxy contests and shareholder activism. At S&C, he represented Elon Musk, xAI and X on the $113 billion merger of xAI and X. Prior to joining S&C, he represented Elon Musk in his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter; Ansys in its $35 billion sale to Synopsys; Splunk in its $30 billion sale to Cisco Systems; CA Technologies in its $19 billion sale to Broadcom; Livongo Health in its $18.5 billion sale to Teladoc (largest-ever digital health deal); Proofpoint in its $12.5 billion sale to Thoma Bravo (largest-ever private equity acquisition of a cloud software company); Credit Karma in its $7 billion acquisition by Intuit Inc. (largest-ever venture-backed fintech deal); Entegris in its $6.5 billion acquisition of CMC Materials; and Coherent in its initially announced $5.7 billion sale to Lumentum, followed by Coherent’s subsequent responses to competing acquisition proposals from MKS Instruments, II-VI and Lumentum in a three-party bidding war culminating in Coherent’s $7 billion sale to II-VI. Among numerous other accolades, he was recognized by The American Lawyer as a 2021 and 2017 Dealmaker of the Year and by Law360 as an M&A MVP in 2021. He has been recognized numerous times as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in California by the Daily Journal.

J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, B.S., University of Michigan