Michael Ringler

M&A, Technology, Digital Infrastructure, Corporate Governance, Shareholder Activism

Partner at S&C since 2024. Co-Managing Partner of the Firm’s Palo Alto office and Co-Head of the Firm’s Technology Group and Digital Infrastructure Group. Mike is a nationally recognized M&A adviser focusing on technology-related industries where he regularly advises companies on mission-critical and transformative M&A transactions. He represents large industry-leading companies, as well as industry disruptors, in a broad range of technology sectors, including the semiconductor, networking, software, internet and artificial intelligence industries. At S&C, he has represented xAI in connection with its $250 billion sale to SpaceX, creating a combined company valued at $1.25 trillion (largest private company merger in history); Elon Musk, xAI and X on the $113 billion merger of xAI and X; xAI in its $20 billion and $5.5 billion equity financings, $5 billion debt financing and numerous confidential acquisitions; Elon Musk and xAI on their investment in the AI Infrastructure Partnership (AIP) and participation in AIP’s $40 billion acquisition of Aligned Data Centers; and Shield AI, on debt and equity financing aspects, in connection with its pending acquisition of Aechelon Technology and its $1.5 billion Series G funding. Among other accolades, he was recognized by Law360 as a Technology MVP in 2025 and an M&A MVP in 2021 and by The American Lawyer as a 2021 and 2015 Dealmaker of the Year. 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