Michael S. Green

Practice Areas

Mike Green is an experienced transactional attorney who serves as outside general counsel to many real estate investment and corporate clients. He is viewed by his clients as a strategic counselor and advisor.

Mike also serves as the Firm Strategic Recruiting Partner, coordinating and leading the firm's growth by attracting and recruiting strategic firms and attorneys nationwide to the Michael Best platform. In addition to his current role, Mike has held several leadership positions in the firm, most recently serving the allotted maximum consecutive term on the firm’s Management Committee. Prior to that, he was the chair of the firm’s Transactional practice group.

Mike leads the firm’s Project Development and Finance Team and the Public-Private Partnerships (P3) Team, bringing experience and creative thinking to structuring complex, large-scale and high-profile/politically sensitive development projects throughout the United States.

In addition to his extensive practice in real estate and real estate finance, Mike is an experienced practitioner in corporate law, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, structured finance, and commercial finance, bringing the same strategic, but pragmatic and problem-solving approach, to helping clients achieve their goals. Mike routinely leads project developments, financings, and corporate transactions throughout the United States, including acquisitions, dispositions, and financing in the context of bankruptcy and financial restructuring.