A Corporate Partner in the Firm’s New York office, Mike Holick regularly advises private equity firms and public and private companies in connection with mergers and acquisitions, investments, carve-outs, joint ventures, recapitalizations and other corporate transactions. He has experience representing clients across a variety of sectors including healthcare, technology, infrastructure, energy, financial services, and industrials and manufacturing. His clients have included private equity firms such as Apax Partners, CDPQ, EQT, First Reserve, Goldman Sachs and Patricia Industries as well as large corporations, such as Certara, First Data, First Transit, Gerdau, ITC, Waystar and Yageo. Mike has served on the Private Equity Advisory Board for Law360 and has been recognized as a Notable Practitioner by IFLR1000 and Rising Star by Super Lawyers.
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Work Highlights
- EQT and Goldman Sachs in their $8.5 billion acquisition of Parexel
- EQT and CPPIB in their acquisition of a majority equity stake in Waystar in a transaction valued at $2.7 billion
- EQT in multiple transactions, including its acquisitions of Cypress Creek, First Student and First Transit, Storable, Kodiak Gas Services, Cast & Crew, Certara, Clinical Innovations and Press Ganey, its investments in SNFL, IFG and 3Shape, its sales of Press Ganey, Clinical Innovations and Contanda and the sale of a majority stake in Direct ChassisLink
- Apax in a number of transactions, including its acquisitions of Ole Smoky Distillery, Eating Recovery Center, Cadence Education, Syneron Candela and Garda World Security Corporation
- Patricia Industries and its portfolio companies in multiple acquisitions, including Patricia’s acquisition of Advanced Instruments and Advanced Instruments’ subsequent acquisitions of Artel and Solentim, Sarnova’s acquisitions of Allied 100, Digitech and R1 EMS business and Laborie’s acquisitions of GI Supply and Pelvalon
- First Reserve in various transactions, including the acquisitions of Goldfield, Dresser Natural Gas Solutions, CHA Consulting, Eagle Infrastructure and the integrity maintenance platform of EMS USA, Inc. and its recapitalization of IRISNDT Inspection & Engineering Services
- ITC Holdings in its sale to Fortis Inc. in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at approximately $11.3 billion
- The ADT Corporation in its sale to an affiliate of Apollo Global Management in a transaction valued at $15 billion
Education
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Dartmouth College, 2002 A.B.
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Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management, 2008 M.B.A.
Lanier Merit Scholar; Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society
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Vanderbilt University Law School, 2008 J.D.
Associations
- New York State Bar Association