Michael Zeidel

Practice Areas

Michael Zeidel leads Skadden’s Capital Markets Department in the Americas. He advises issuers, underwriters, private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in a wide range of U.S. and international capital markets transactions, including public and private offerings of equity, high-yield, investment grade and convertible securities.

Mr. Zeidel has extensive experience advising on initial public offerings and other equity transactions, acquisition financings and liability management transactions, including tender offers, exchange offers, consent solicitations and other significant corporate transactions. He also counsels corporate clients of all sizes across a variety of industries on an ongoing basis, assisting with the review and preparation of SEC filings, corporate governance and Sarbanes Oxley matters, and interactions with security holders, stock exchanges and other regulatory bodies.

He regularly speaks at conferences and seminars on a variety of corporate finance and governance-related topics and frequently is quoted in Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Law360, Institutional Investor, Reuters and other publications.

Personal

J.D., Syracuse University College of Law, 1995 (magna cum laude; Member, Syracuse Law Review; Order of the Coif). B.A., George Washington University, 1992 (cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa).