Bio
Maxwell Michael is an Associate in DarrowEverett’s Corporate & Business Transactions Practice Group with broad experience across corporate, finance, securities, and general transactional matters. Maxwell advises clients ranging from emerging companies to established businesses and investors in matters such as mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic investments, and private placements of equity and debt securities. Maxwell also has experience with public offerings, preparing SEC filings, and venture capital financing. Additionally, Maxwell regularly works on commercial contracts and corporate governance matters.
Prior Experience
Before joining DarrowEverett, Maxwell was an associate at a prestigious Philadelphia-based law firm and had significant experience representing companies on private placements of debt and equity securities, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures in regulated industries.
Practice Areas
Bar Admissions
- New York
Education
- UCLA School of Law, J.D.
- Baruch College – CUNY, B.B.A., summa cum laude
Involvement
- New York State Bar Association
- New York City Bar Association
Representative Matters
- Represented a real estate client in designing and implementing a multi-layered management and control framework intended to ensure continuity of operational control without altering equity ownership. The engagement included a detailed evaluation of all existing operating agreements, loan documents, and 30+ years of corporate records spanning more than a dozen projects in various stages of development and stabilization; the amendment and restatement of project-level operating agreements; and the creation of a centralized management company which, together with a reconstituted corporate parent under a new board of directors governance structure, established a clear succession and decision-making framework designed to preserve stability, transparency, and institutional governance.
- Advised the purchaser of nationally known plumbing franchises in New Jersey and Florida, drafting the purchase agreement, structuring a private equity capital offering, and negotiating a substantial equity commitment from a private equity fund to finance this acquisition and future growth through the newly developed platform.
- Represented a highly regarded New York–based private investment firm in its investment in a strategically located sawmill, providing end-to-end transactional support from term sheet negotiations through closing. The engagement included legal and operational diligence, investment and tax structuring, and the negotiation of limited partner side letter protections, definitive investment documents, and ancillary closing agreements.
- Represented a parking and enforcement company in a corporate restructuring involving the spinoff of a subsidiary engaged in vehicle booting operations. The transaction also included the reorganization of an affiliated entity to align ownership across the affiliated businesses. Our team advised on all aspects of the transaction, including structuring, tax considerations, corporate governance, and implementation to achieve the client’s ownership and operational objectives.