
Michael P. Gibson


Michael’s principal area of practice is corporate finance and securities law, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, and general corporate representation.
Experience Highlights
TPG Growth and The Rise Fund in their majority investment in Greenhouse, a hiring software company
Tinicum in its acquisition of Watlow, a designer and manufacturer of complete thermal systems
Kibo, a leader in cloud commerce solutions and a Vista Equity Partners portfolio company, in its acquisition of Certona, a provider of real-time, AI-driven omnichannel personalization software solutions
PAS Global in its sale to Hexagon AB, a global leader in sensor, software and autonomous solutions
SailPoint in the equity investment by Thoma Bravo in the company, a provider of on-premises and cloud identity management software solutions
Kibo, a leader in cloud commerce solutions and a Vista Equity Partners portfolio company, in its acquisition of Monetate, a leader in personalization software for consumer-facing brands
Khoros, a customer engagement software provider and a Vista Equity Partners portfolio company, in its acquisition of Flow.ai, a conversational AI platform for designing and managing chatbots
PayLease, a leading PropTech provider for property managers and community associations and a Vista Equity Partners portfolio company, in its acquisition of Zego, maker of a smart home hub for apartment living
Vida Capital, a multi-billion dollar alternative asset manager specializing in insurance-linked strategies, in its acquisition by Redbird Capital and Reverence Capital Partners
Lifesize, a global innovator of video collaboration and meeting productivity solutions, in its merger with Serenova, a leading contact center-as-a-service provider, via its financial sponsor, Marlin Equity Partners
SailPoint Technologies, a leader in enterprise identity governance, in its acquisitions of Orkus and OverWatchID
Rebellion Photonics, a provider of intelligent, visual gas monitoring solutions, in its acquisition by Honeywell
Spredfast, a leading provider of social media management software and solutions, in the merger with Lithium Technologies via its private equity sponsor, Vista Equity Partners
Encore Dredging Partners, a portfolio company of AV Capital Holdings, in its acquisition of Inland Dredging Company
Daseke in its merger with Aveda Transportation and Energy Services, one of the largest oil rig moving companies in North America
Covenant Transportation Group in the acquisition of Landair Holdings, a leading for-hire truckload carrier and supplier of 3PL transportation, warehousing and logistics inventory management
ArcBest Corporation in the $25 million acquisition of Logistics & Distribution Services, a private logistics and distribution company
Cirrus Logic in its $488 million acquisition of Wolfson Microelectronics, a supplier of mixed-signal semiconductor devices and audio solutions to the consumer electronics market traded on the London Stock Exchange
Austin Ventures in its acquisition of SAM, Inc., a surveying, mapping and engineering company
BMC Software in the acquisition of assets of CDB Software, a mainframe data management company
Pharos Capital Group in its acquisition of Seaside Healthcare, a behavioral health services provider
Pharos Capital Group in its acquisition of Employee Benefit Solutions, a provider of employee benefit and wellness products for employers
Montrose Lane (formerly Cottonwood Venture Partners) in a $5 million Series A investment in Trivie, an adaptive learning platform
Engage Mobilize, a digital field management platform that improves the way oil and gas companies interact with service providers, in a bridge financing led by Montrose Lane (formerly Cottonwood Venture Partners)
Montrose Lane (formerly Cottonwood Venture Partners) in the formation of its inaugural fund with total capital commitments of $32 million
Spredfast in a $32.5 million round of venture capital funding for the company, a producer of software designed to enable companies to manage social media campaigns and customer acquisition initiatives
Spredfast in the $50 million Series F financing for the company, a producer of software designed to enable companies to manage social media campaigns and customer acquisition initiatives
Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures in the $15 million Series D financing of Siluria Technologies, a natural gas technology company
Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures in intellectual property efforts, including non-infringement analysis, related to the $20 million Series D financing of Rive Technology, a hydrocracking catalyst company
Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures in the Series D financing of Novomer, a sustainable chemistry company, pioneering a family of high-performance, environmentally responsible polymers and chemical intermediates
Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures as lead investor in the $25 million Series D financing of ConXtech, a construction technology company that develops and builds mass-customizable, modular, prefabricated and sustainable structural steel building systems
Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures as lead investor in the $11.6 million Series C financing of 908 Devices, a pioneer of purpose-built analytical devices for chemical analysis
Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures in its $10 million Series C financing of NanoMech, a user of nanotechnology to develop advanced products for industrial and mechanical applications such as lubricants, coatings and specialty chemicals
AVX Partners in its formation of a pledge fund and the fund’s investment in the Series A Preferred Stock of a data analytics company
Credentials
- New York University School of Law, J.D., 2013
- The University of Texas at Austin, B.A. with high honors, 2008 (Phi Beta Kappa)
- Texas
- Deals & CasesMarch 3, 2021
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- Deals & CasesDecember 17, 2019
- Deals & CasesOctober 16, 2019
- Deals & CasesJuly 15, 2019
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- Deals & CasesFebruary 19, 2019
- Deals & CasesDecember 19, 2018
- Deals & CasesOctober 3, 2018
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- Deals & CasesJuly 5, 2018
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- Deals & CasesApril 16, 2018