Michael T. Raymond

Michael Raymond, of counsel in Dickinson Wright’s Troy office, focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions law. Michael has counseled corporate and partnership clients in a general counsel capacity, including corporate governance, employment, licensing, commercial contracting, antitrust, and regulatory matters. He has worked with various publicly traded and closely held buy-side and sell-side clients in connection with their mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, divestitures, spinoffs, and recapitalizations. In 2023, DBusiness Magazine recognized Michael as a “Top Lawyer” in mergers and acquisition law, and he has also been recognized by Chambers USA as one of America’s leading lawyers for business.

• Counsel to various issuers and underwriters in connection with initial and secondary public offerings, registered direct and PIPE offerings.
• Counsel to numerous issuers in connection with their domestic and offshore private equity transactions.
• Counsel to various publicly-traded and closely-held buy-side and sell-side clients in connection with their mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, divestitures, spinoffs, and recapitalizations.
• Counsel to multiple borrowers in connection with their senior debt, mezzanine debt, venture capital, and other corporate financings.
• Counsel to several management groups in connection with their leveraged buyout transactions.
• Counsel to borrowers in connection with their asset securitization, sale-leaseback, and off-balance sheet equipment leasing transactions.
• Counsel to numerous corporate and partnership clients in a general counsel capacity, including corporate governance, employment, licensing, commercial contracting, antitrust, and regulatory matters.
• Counsel to various parties in connection with their domestic and international joint ventures and strategic alliances.
• Counsel to registered broker-dealers and investment advisors and sponsors of private equity funds, derivative securities, and foreign currency option products.

• Presenter, “De-Mystifying IPOs,” 2015 Midwest Securities Law Institute – Michigan State University
• Author, “Raising Private Capital for Early Stage Businesses: Online Offerings, Angel Networks and Matching Services,” Washtenaw County Legal News, August 11, 2005
• Author, “Validity Challenges to SEC Rule 14e-3,” The John Marshall Law Review, Vol. 23:3, 1990
• Author of articles for OTC Stock Journal, Corporate Detroit, and The Entrepreneur Network, 1991-1997
• Author, “Expanding Antifraud Protection: The Pledge of Stock under Sections 17(a) and 10(b) of the Securities Acts,” The John Marshall Law Review, Vol. 15:2, 1982
• Featured speaker, several local network and syndicated business television programs
• Panelist/moderator, various emerging business roundtables, ICLE and other commercial seminars