Michael approaches each matter with zeal and a fresh perspective.

He focuses his practice on corporate, real estate, and finance law. He represents owners, developers, tenants and lenders in project development, from entity structure and project conceptualizing to site assemblage, acquisition, governmental approvals, financing, leasing, environmental issues such as USTs, Brownfields, and inter-creditor relationships, as well as complex unsubordinated ground lease financings and government insured transactions. His transaction experience also includes handling a wide range of corporate matters, including succession planning for multi-generational family businesses.

Having served as in-house counsel to a major federally chartered thrift, Michael uses his extensive experience with regulatory and financing matters to assist lenders and borrowers in loan negotiations, workouts, restructures, secondary market and servicing matters. He also represents borrowers, lenders, landlords and tenants in state and federal court actions, including bankruptcy proceedings.

As a Fellow of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys and vice-chair of the ABA RPTE Gatekeeper task force, Michael collaborated on responses to efforts by the U.S. government to implement proposed “gatekeeper” anti-money laundering regulations, and currently serves as a liaison to a joint task force which continues to analyze, respond to, and negotiate with the International Financial Activity Task Force and the government’s continued efforts to regulate real estate transactions and the activities of attorneys in those transactions in response to the concerns of money laundering and counter-terrorism financing risks.