Michael L. Sherlock

Representative Experience

• Mergers and Acquisitions

• Lead counsel to sellers and buyers in multiple secondary sales of portfolios of private equity investments.
• Lead counsel representing multinational business in strategic acquisition of industrial company.
• Represented domestic and international business in potential sale transaction to private equity-backed purchaser.
• Lead counsel representing private equity-backed Veterinary Support Organizations in add-on strategy.
• Advised majority owner in sale of car dealerships and post-closing distributions.
• Advised vertically integrated cannabis company in its sale to a publicly traded MSO. *
• Advised custom-labeling business in its sale to private equity-backed purchaser. *
• Represented independent marketing innovation company in sale to private equity firm, which sale established digital marketing platform. *
• Advised ophthalmic instruments business in sale to private equity-backed purchaser. *
• Advised majority owner in sale of private label oral care business to internationally headquartered, publicly traded pharmaceutical company. *

• Family Office

• Advise high-net-worth individual on structure for family office management company and investment vehicles.
• Advise family business owners on succession planning and governance issues.
• Ongoing advice to family offices regarding private equity co-investments, private equity fund investments, venture capital investments, and general corporate matters.
• Structured annual investment program for international family offices.
• Designed, drafted, and implemented two-tier equity incentive plan for investment professionals of international family office.
• Represented family office in corporate separation of former executive, including amending limited partnership agreements, establishing phantom profits interests, and redeeming executive from certain co-investments.
• Established Illinois family office.
• Represented Florida-based family office in its structuring, venture capital and other private investments, and day-to-day corporate management. *

• General Corporate

• Advise operating business on re-domestication to Delaware and implementation of governance controls.
• Represented ultra-high-net-worth individual and related investment vehicles in corporate restructuring of commercial real estate assets and related structuring of control and liquidity rights.
• Advise on Corporate Transparency Act analysis and compliance.
• Represented high-net-worth individual in buyout of partner in custom electrical connector business.
• Represented high-net-worth individual in buyout of equity partners in golf course and hospitality management business.
• Represented investment group in Series A Preferred Stock investment in medical laser startup.
• Represented investment group in recapitalization.
• Advised venture capital arm of trading firm on various VC investments. *