Michael Makofsky

About Michael Makofsky

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS (M&A)I represent diverse businesses in transactional, day-to-day industry matters including those businesses who are selling, acquiring, reorganizing, or merging. I assist clients in all aspects of complex mergers and acquisitions, such as structuring the transaction, performing due diligence, securing financing relationships, negotiating terms and documenting transactions. I have significant experience with start-up, venture capital, family office and private equity funds. BANKING & FINANCEI represent a broad range of financial institutions and financial service providers, including banks, private equity funds, commercial finance companies and mezzanine lenders. I counsel borrowers, agents and syndicate members in commercial finance transactions ranging from large transactions to single-lender, single-borrower transactions. I have significant experience in asset based lending, cash flow lending, multi-state, multi-currency and cross-border secured financing, financing secured by unusual types of collateral, letter of credit facilities, health care financing, bond financing, and other capital transactions.

Experience

1. Principal

   McCarthy, Lebit, Crystal & Liffman Co., LPA

   Nov 2009 — Present

   Represented a foreign public corporation in the multi-million dollar acquisition of a domestic company.Handled the reconstitution of an Indian company into a US corporation in order to bring in investors from the United States.Represented the lender in connection with a real estate loan secured by a leasehold deed of trust on real property located in California that contemplated a future lot split, release and development of a portion of the collateral property.Represented a company that is global provider and seller of process automation, material conveying, and air conveying solutions for industrial and manufacturing facilities in a contribution and sale agreement to a private equity firm for a purchase price of over $35 Million plus an earnout for an additional percentage of equity.Represented the shareholders of a company that manufactures and provides logistics for a complete line of gas management systems, compressed gas fittings, assemblies and manifolds for the alternative fuel, welding, cryogenic, medical and specialty gas markets throughout the world in a stock sale to a private equity firm for a purchase price of over $40 Million.Represented owner of commercial properties in Ohio in CMBS transaction.Represented a company that specializes in recycling secondary scrap metal in a $28 million asset based credit facility (revolving and term loans) which included the granting of a security interest in non-traditional assets.Represented an authorized dealer of equipment and engines for a global organization in connection with a $50 million asset based credit facility (revolving, term and real estate loans) which included inter-creditor issues from various financing sources.

Education

• Case Western Reserve University School of Law

  Juris Doctor

  1996 — 1999

• University of Connecticut

  B.A.

  1992 — 1996

Skills

• Intellectual Property
• Real Estate
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Mergers
• Venture Capital
• Commercial Litigation
• Asset Based Lending
• Finance
• Legal Writing
• Litigation
• Corporate Law
• Bankruptcy
• Civil Litigation
• Corporate Governance
• Licensing