Michael JW Rennock

Michael Rennock is a partner in the Corporate and Securities Practice, based in the New York office. He has more than 35 years of diverse transactional and finance experience. Michael’s practice includes advising buyers and sellers in all aspects of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and divestitures, as well as handling securities offerings, venture financings, corporate governance, and private equity matters. He represents corporations, limited liability companies and others in capital markets and financing transactions, including initial public offerings and secondary offerings, venture capital and private equity financings, high-yield and convertible debt financings, private investments in public equity (PIPES), Rule 144A and Reg S offerings, and traditional private placements. His finance experience also includes recapitalizations, secured and unsecured borrowings, and project financings.

Michael serves clients across a variety of industries—including technology, telecommunications, healthcare, education, retail, defense, finance, manufacturing, energy, and transportation.

• Represented a sophisticated AI healthcare technology company in a convertible note financing and its Series B, Series C and Series D financings, raising over US $175 million
• Represented a developer and manufacturer of advanced aerospace platforms and autonomous systems in its acquisition by a large aerospace company
• Represented a major US defense contractor with the negotiation, amendment and restatement of a joint venture agreement with a leading French defense contractor
• Represented a video call solutions company in the sale of its assets
• Represented an educational and tutoring company in the sale of its assets
• Represented an independent global commodities trader and strategic investor in its acquisition of the power generation assets of a landfill gas electricity generator in a stock purchase transaction
• Represented a large bus operator in the acquisition of the bus assets of a competitor in a Section 363 auction
• Represented an insurance software solutions provider in its sale to two private equity buyers through separate merger and asset sale transactions for aggregate consideration of more than US $300 million
• Represented the special committee of the board of a large public defense contractor in its auction and sale in two parts to a French technology group in a merger transaction, and to a British intelligence services business, in an asset sale for total consideration of US $1.6 billion
• Represented a real estate development company in the restructuring and consolidation of its holdings
• Represented the managers and investors in the negotiation and financing of the first leg of a dark cable project