Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Capital Markets

Partner

Michael Zeidel leads Skadden’s Capital Markets Group in the Americas. For more than 25 years, he has represented issuers, investment banks and private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in a variety of U.S. and international transactions, including public and private offerings of equity, high-yield and investment grade securities.

Mr. Zeidel has extensive experience advising on IPOs, acquisition financings and liability management transactions, including tender offers, exchange offers and consent solicitations, as well as significant investments and partnerships. He also counsels corporate clients of all sizes across a variety of industries on an ongoing basis, assisting with their public reporting and corporate governance matters and interactions with security holders, stock exchanges and other regulatory bodies. Mr. Zeidel's knowledge of high yield covenants also results in him aiding in structuring acquisitions, spin offs and other strategic transactions.

J.D., Syracuse University College of Law, 1995 (magna cum laude; Member, Syracuse Law Review; Order of the Coif) B.A., George Washington University, 1992 (cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa)