Michael Choate > Proskauer Rose LLP > Chicago, United States > Lawyer Profile
Proskauer Rose LLP Offices

THREE FIRST NATIONAL PLAZA
70 WEST MADISON, SUITE 3800
CHICAGO IL 60602-4342
ILLINOIS
United States
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Michael Choate

Work Department
Corporate; Capital Markets
Position
Michael focuses on securities and corporate finance matters including public and private offerings of both equity and debt securities with an emphasis on REITs and real estate funds including mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance issues and federal securities compliance matters impacting these entities. Michael’s representative experience includes advising publicly-traded and non-listed REITs and private real estate funds and investors in equity and debt offerings of more than $30 billion, structuring public and private equity and debt offerings, and representing publicly and privately held entities in merger and acquisition transactions including various REIT internalization transactions and counseling boards and managers on fiduciary duties and governance matters.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Industry focus > Sport
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)