Michael Zeidel

Practice Areas

Mr. Zeidel has extensive experience advising on IPOs, 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 matters and interactions with security holders, stock exchanges and other regulatory bodies.

Mr. Zeidel leads the capital markets department’s knowledge strategy initiatives, including its thought leadership, knowledge management and client communications.

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).

Career

Mr. Zeidel has been repeatedly selected for inclusion in Chambers Global and Chambers USA, where he was described as “experienced and commercially minded,” as well as “strong across all capital instruments.” He has also been named one of Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Dealmakers in America, recognized as a “leading lawyer” in IFLR1000 and noted as “highly recommended” in The Legal 500 U.S., where he was cited as a “considerable authority in underwriter-side equity transactions” and for his work representing issuers and underwriters in high-yield offerings. He regularly speaks at conferences and seminars on a variety of corporate finance and governance-related topics and frequently is quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Law360, Institutional Investor and other publications.