Michael has represented some of the nation’s largest health care companies in hundreds of acquisitions, divestitures, financings, joint ventures, and other corporate transactions, including the $1.25 billion acquisition of Horizon Healthcare by Integrated Health Services Inc. Recent representative transactions include:

• The merger of a publicly traded dialysis services company;
• A $125 million senior secured credit facility for a national health care provider;
• The corporate and regulatory restructuring of a 50-state home health and medical staffing company;
• Refinancing and sale of a portfolio of 16 Texas nursing facilities.

Michael has been a speaker on the topic of nursing facility acquisitions at the annual national conventions of the American Health Care Association, and recently chaired the Deal Making in Health Care panel at the Argyle Executive Forum in New York City.

Since 2008, Chambers and Partners has recognized Michael as a leading health care attorney, and Nightingale’s Healthcare News named Michael as one of the nation’s Outstanding Healthcare Transactions Lawyers for 2007. Michael was also recognized by the New York 2011 edition of Super Lawyers.