Mike's principal area of practice is corporate finance, with an emphasis upon high yield debt financings. His clients include both issuers and underwriters of debt securities, and Mike's industry experience includes a variety of Master Limited Partnerships and other energy companies as well as Southwest Airlines Co.
Nicknamed "Dr. Debt" by the CFO of an oilfield services company client, Mike's experience with corporate debt is especially broad. Over the last 35 years, he has worked on more than a hundred debt deals for public and private companies and their underwriters totaling tens of billions of dollars, including aircraft equipment pass through trust financings for Southwest Airlines, debt tender offers and consent solicitations, and underwritten offerings of both investment-grade and high yield (or "junk") bonds.
Mike prides himself upon his business-like, cost effective approach to his practice. The 2008 edition of Chambers USA says that Mike "solves difficult problems very creatively, yet simply" and arrives at "useful answers quickly."