Mike has extensive experience with financial, corporate, and business matters for a variety of private and public companies involved in middle-market deals, including biotech, pharma, and healthcare companies, banks, governmental authorities, and real estate developers. Mike’s practice focuses on transactional work, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, real estate financing transactions, and cross-border transactions. He regularly counsels clients with respect to joint ventures and strategic alliances; shareholder disputes; sales, distribution, and agency agreements; the formation and structure of business entities; and the merger, acquisition, and disposition of business interests. He has represented investors, banks and other financial institutions, governmental authorities, and businesses involved in, among other matters, secured commercial financings; lease securitizations and financings (including new market tax credits transactions, mezzanine lending, sale-leasebacks, and lease-leasebacks); syndications and participations in multi-lender financings; trading of distressed debt; bond indenture financings; securitizations; workouts of commercial and industrial loans, including debtor-in-possession financings; real estate loans; letters of credit; restructurings of large businesses; and foreclosures.
Corporate Positions
Prior to joining Gibbons, Mike held various supervisory and management positions in commercial loan operations of national banks, working at United Jersey Bank, First Fidelity Bank, and First Union National Bank. He presently serves on the Bank Lawyers Council Committee of the New Jersey Bankers Association and was elected to the chair of the Banking Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association in 2013.
New York Law School|Fairleigh Dickinson University
J.D.|B.S., magna cum laude
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State of New Jersey|State of New York|Commonwealth of Pennsylvania|United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
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Recognized by Best Lawyers®, 2026 Edition: Banking and Finance Law; Corporate Law
Included on the Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business list, Banking & Finance; Corporate/M&A
Included on the New Jersey Super Lawyers Rising Stars list, Business/Corporate, 2006-2007
AV® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
Build with Purpose, Inc. Cornerstone Honoree
New Jersey Bankers Association
Bank Lawyers Council Committee, June 2004 – Present
New Jersey State Bar Association
Chairman, Board of Trustees, Section on Banking Law, 2013 -2015
Past Vice Chair, Financial Transactions Committee
Section on Corporate and Business Law
Essex County Bar Association
Past Chair, Corporate Law Section
Association of the Bar of the City of New York
New York State Bar Association
Section on Banking Law
American Bar Association
Section on Business Law
Portugal-US Chamber of Commerce
Member, Board of Directors
Past Secretary and Member, Executive Committee
Secretary
Chairman, Legal, Tax & Audit Committee