EXPERIENCE

• Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
• Outside Counsel Solutions

EDUCATION

• New York University School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude
• University of Pennsylvania, B.A., magna cum laude

HONORS

• Order of the Coif
• Judge John J. Galgay Fellow in Bankruptcy Law
• Benjamin Franklin Scholar

LAW JOURNAL

• Annual Survey of American Law, Senior Editor

JUDICIAL INTERNSHIP

• The Honorable Cornelius Blackshear,
  United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York

ADMISSIONS

• New York
• United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York

At Schulman & Charish, Michael’s representations have included:

• An individual claiming corporate fraud and seeking to recover her share of a billion-dollar Ecuadorian business empire.
• A Nasdaq-traded technology company in litigations stemming from an asset-purchase transaction.
• A billion-dollar internet company in a case that included contract, copyright, and trademark claims and that our firm tried successfully in New York federal court.
• Subjects of an SEC investigation concerning a publicly traded company.
• Trustees in trust litigation against former fiduciaries seeking to recover hundreds of millions of dollars of value for their trusts.
• A solar-energy company in international litigations concerning patent ownership and claiming breach of a license agreement and misappropriation of trade secrets.
• An insurance administrator in a complex contract dispute with an insurance company.
• A renewable-energy company in a lawsuit against a competitor claiming misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract, fraud, and other business torts.
• A diamond-industry-information company in litigation against a competitor centering on trademark claims and also encompassing patent, contract, tort, and purported antitrust claims.
• A credential-evaluation company in litigation against its former trade association claiming violations of corporate by-laws and antitrust and unfair-trade-practices laws.

At Wachtell Lipton and Outside Counsel Solutions, Michael’s representations included:

Commercial

• A leading cable network in a broadcast-contract dispute with prominent media and entertainment companies.
• A telecommunications company in litigation concerning royalty payments under a software licensing agreement.
• A telecommunications company in litigation against a former employee, alleging breaches of fiduciary duty and a covenant not to compete.

White Collar Criminal Defense and Internal Investigations

• A celebrity client in investigations by a congressional subcommittee, the SEC, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office concerning alleged insider trading, false statements, and securities fraud.
• An international bank in an internal investigation of one of the largest rogue-trading scandals in history.
• A credit-card issuer in an internal investigation of a stock-price collapse related to an earnings shortfall, an accounting-policy change, and allegations of insider trading.

Corporate Governance and Control

• A major stock exchange in a lawsuit seeking to enjoin a merger.
• A leading pharmaceutical company in hostile-takeover litigation and the battle for control over a jointly marketed blockbuster drug.
• Directors of a global apparel company in shareholder derivative litigation concerning an interested-party transaction.

Securities

• A semiconductor company in a Section 16(b) short-swing-profit case stemming from a reclassification of preferred stock.
• A leading retail chain in a securities class action pertaining to a stock-price decline related to losses in the credit-card business.

Intellectual Property

• Advised a document-security company on patent litigations against the European Central Bank concerning infringement and validity of a patent for anti-counterfeiting technology.

ERISA

• A leading Wall Street investment bank in an ERISA case, stemming from a failed investment, that went to the United States Supreme Court.

Bankruptcy

• A leading retail chain in bankruptcy litigation against a shoe company concerning royalty and accounting issues related to a joint venture between the parties.