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Michael DeFranco
Work Department
Corporate and Securities
Position
Michael F. DeFranco currently serves as a member of the Firm’s Global Transactional Practice Group management committee. He is the past Chair of the Firm’s Global M&A Practice Group. He advises clients on transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, securities law compliance, corporate governance issues and disclosure concerns. His extensive experience includes representing multinational companies in both public and private acquisitions and divestitures.
Career
Michael concentrates on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance as well as general corporate and securities matters. He represents buyers, sellers and their financial advisers in a wide variety of transactions — including negotiated and contested public and private acquisitions and divestitures, cross-border transactions (both inbound and outbound) and other strategic alliances. Mr. DeFranco also advises public companies on various governance and compliance issues.
Languages
English
Lawyer Rankings
United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
Clients come to Baker McKenzie LLP for its ‘exceptional negotiation skills’, where the firm’s roster of clients include large multinationals and private equity fund sponsors. Benefiting from its global footprint of offices, the M&A department handles complex cross-border deals, including divestitures and spin-offs, and has experience on both the buy- and sell-side of transactions. The offering is jointly led by New York-based Alan Zoccolillo, who is proficient in the structuring and negotiation of high value M&A, and Chicago’s Michael DeFranco covers global transactions and securities law compliance. David Malliband and Olivia Tyrrell, also in Chicago, are well-versed in cross-border mandates and joint ventures, strategic alliances, and carve-outs, respectively. In Palo Alto, Leif King focuses on private equity investments, while San Francisco-based Derek Liu represents strategic acquirers and venture-backed start-ups in various deals.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Finance > Project finance
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Tax > International tax
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: litigation and regulation
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- International trade and national security > National Security
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- International trade and national security > Trade remedies and trade policy
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense