Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

Mike Gass, Co-Chair of Choate’s Business and Financial Litigation Group, helps companies and their management and boards to successfully resolve high-stakes disputes involving securities laws, shareholder claims, and corporate governance. With over 35 years of experience, Mike has a strong record of obtaining early dismissals of cases. Clients appreciate Mike’s substantial trial experience, his reputation as a “go to” resource for governance advice, his hands-on approach to serving clients, and the positive results he has achieved for them.

Mike has represented a wide range of clients in both private litigation – primarily shareholder class actions and derivative actions – and in investigations and enforcement actions brought by government and industry enforcement agencies, including FCA enforcement. He is also highly sought by boards and their committees to help in exercising their oversight responsibilities, particularly with respect to the delicate and challenging task of investigating and remediating alleged misconduct within the organization.

Mike also has substantial antitrust experience in both the commercial and higher education sectors. He is frequently been called upon by institutions of higher education to represent them in a range of admissions and financial aid matters, many of which relate to antitrust issues and related concerns. Mike is outside counsel to a consortium of more than 30 highly selective schools and colleges, providing guidance on the execution of its core missions of collecting relevant data and conducting research utilized by individual members to develop strategies to ensure educational access. He has represented COFHE and a number of individual institutions in connection with government investigations and civil litigation addressing these issues.

Mike’s clients have included public and private companies including Microsoft, Akamai, Genzyme, Bruker, PTC, American Tower, and Sunbeam Television Corporation, as well as leading academic institutions including MIT, Amherst, Bates, Dartmouth, Tufts, and the Committee on Financing Higher Education (“COHFE”).

Harvard Law School

JD, 1985, cum laude

University of Michigan BA, 1982, with highest honors