Michael Vogel > Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Offices

1285 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS
NEW YORK, NY 10019-6064
NEW YORK
United States
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Michael Vogel

Work Department
Corporate; Mergers & Acquisitions; Private Equity; Media, Sports & Entertainment; Corporate Governance
Position
Education
J.D., George Washington University Law School with honors
B.A., George Washington University magna cum laude
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP combines its expertise in corporate transactions with its knowledge of entertainment and media to advise investors, entrepreneurs, media and entertainment companies and media technology corporations. The team also advsies on IP issues such as rights negotiations, film studio deals, film production, distribution and financing arrangements. The team is based in New York and jointly led by Robert Schumer, Michael Vogel, Charles H. Googe Jr. and T. Robert Zochowski Jr.. Schumer is an M&A specialist with extensive experience in the media and entertainment space, Vogel represents media companies and entrepreneurs in M&As and joint ventures and Googe Jr. leads on IP matters and is known for structuring entertainment aspects of M&As and financings. Zochowski Jr. is sought out for assistance with specialized and innovative finance structures including project financings involving film, royalties and music rights asset securitizations.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Industry focus > Sport
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- International trade and national security > National Security
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense