Mike Hackett

Practice Areas

Mike Hackett is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department and co-head of the Asset Management Litigation group. An experienced litigator and trial lawyer, Mike’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation with a particular emphasis on asset management, financial services, M&A, shareholder and life sciences disputes. His clients have included some of the world’s largest asset managers and their principals, multi-billion-dollar institutional investors, leading public and private companies, and emerging and innovative start-ups.

A significant portion of Mike’s practice concerns disputes and regulation involving asset managers, including private equity, venture capital, hedge, real estate and private credit sponsors, as well as their funds, partners, investors, portfolio companies, and officers and directors. He has extensive experience representing asset managers across a wide range of issues, including control contest within advisers, disputes between limited partners and general partners (such as general partner removals), and providing counsel to investment advisers in connection with regulatory examinations, investigations and enforcement actions. Mike routinely represents funds, fund sponsors, portfolio companies and their officers and directors, including in significant post-closing M&A disputes.

Mike also litigates high-stakes commercial disputes in the life sciences and financial services industries, including for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, asset managers and other private capital investors in areas such as M&A, breach of contract, indemnification, fraud, contested earnouts and royalties, securities and capital markets, bankruptcy and corporate governance.