Mike is a partner in the firm’s Corporate practice. He has extensive experience with clients in a wide array of industries, including the energy, financial services, real estate, and retail and consumer products industries. He focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, joint venture arrangements, corporate governance matters, and general commercial representations.

Mike understands the business issues that drive decision-making during the transaction process, and he is able to effectively and efficiently blend a client’s business needs with the legal aspects inherent in all transactional matters.

• Represented Framatome, Inc. in its acquisition of Schneider Electric’s nuclear instrumentation and control business, adding to Framatome’s engineering expertise and expanding its instrumentation and control offerings.
• Represented Mobil Pipe Line Company in its acquisition of an interest in Wolverine Pipe Line Company from Shell Pipeline Company LP.
• Represented Mid-Point Pipeline LLC, an ExxonMobil subsidiary, in the formation of Permian Express Partners LLC, a joint venture with Sunoco Pipeline L.P., combining Sunoco’s Permian Express 1, Permian Express 2, and Permian Longview and Louisiana Access pipelines with Exxon’s Longview to Louisiana and Pegasus pipelines, Hawkins pipeline system, an idle pipeline in southern Oklahoma, and Patoka, IL, terminal.
• Represented ExxonMobil Oil Corporation and Mobil Pipe Line Company in the sale of their ownership interests in Chalmette Refining, L.L.C., to PBF Holding Company LLC.
• Represented ExxonMobil Pipeline Company in its sale of assets comprising the HLS and Anchorage to Krotz Springs Pipeline Systems to Crimson Louisiana Midstream, LLC.
• Represented ExxonMobil Pipeline Company in its sale of assets comprising the South Marsh Island gathering system and Southwest Louisiana onshore pipeline system to Crimson Louisiana Pipeline, LLC.
• Represented ExxonMobil in the disposition of certain of its company-owned U.S. service station assets, which asset dispositions were undertaken as part of ExxonMobil’s planned transition out of the direct-served retail business in the U.S.
• Represented ExxonMobil in the disposition of its On the Run convenience store franchise system and related assets.
• Advised various entities in the sale and purchase of mortgage servicing and origination platform assets.
• Represented Credit-Based Asset Servicing and Securitization LLC, a privately owned sub-prime mortgage investor and servicer, in the sale of Litton Loan Servicing in connection with its out-of-court restructuring.
• Represented Smithfield Foods in its strategic M&A program, including its disposition of its interest in Butterball, LLC and its acquisitions of the refrigerated meats business and Cook’s Hams business of ConAgra Foods and its acquisition of Farmland Foods through a contested bankruptcy.
• Represented an international specialty packaging company in the sale of substantially all of its assets in conjunction with its winding up under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code.
• Assisted developers, sponsors, and investors in connection with a variety of transactions involving renewable energy projects, and several public utilities and affiliated companies in connection with multiple transactions involving the monetization of interests in facilities qualifying for nonconventional fuel tax credits.

• Best Lawyers in America®: Corporate Law (2023-2026)
• Chambers USA: Corporate/M&A, Southern Virginia (2016-2025)
• Legal 500 United States for M&A: Middle Market (2019)
• Law and Politics Magazine: Rising Star – Mergers and Acquisitions (2008-2010)
• Virginia Business Magazine: “Legal Elite” (2006)