Michael provides strategic counseling to companies, ranging from newly formed startup teams to mature publicly traded corporations, and venture capital firms in a wide variety of corporate transactions, including venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, initial and follow-on public offerings, direct listings, debt financings and corporate reorganizations. His experience in structuring a wide range of complex capital markets transactions includes representation of Coinbase on its direct listing, the first major crypto company to go public and the first technology direct listing on Nasdaq. In 2022, Michael was named an American Lawyer “Dealmaker of the Year” for his role advising Coinbase in this transaction. Michael has received numerous accolades and has been consistently recognized as a leading lawyer to technology companies and their investors by publications including Law360, Legal 500, Super Lawyers and LMG Life Sciences.