Michael A. Conza

Partner

mike.conza@bingham.com

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• T 617.951.8459
• F 617.345.5071
• Boston

Michael A. Conza has more than two decades of experience representing privately held and publicly traded companies, investment banks and venture capital firms. His practice is primarily targeted toward the representation of emerging and public growth companies, with strong emphasis on companies in the software and communications industries. He concentrates his practice in the areas of general corporate representation, corporate finance and acquisitions.

A significant portion of Mike’s practice involves general corporate work for ongoing clients, both private and public, on matters such as business counseling, licensing and joint venture arrangements, contract negotiation, corporate governance matters, and regulatory compliance (including the SEC and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act). He has considerable experience in the areas of outsourcing and “open source” software licensing.

With respect to his acquisitions practice, Mike has broad and deep experience in structuring and negotiating mergers, tender offers, asset transactions and other acquisitions, and in designing defenses against unsolicited takeovers. His practice embraces both public and private companies as well as the representation of independent committees of directors. He regularly represents buyers and sellers in transactions ranging from the tens of millions of dollars to the billions of dollars.

Mike’s corporate finance practice includes extensive experience with both private and public offerings. He is a nationally recognized counselor in the area of venture capital financings. He has represented companies as well as venture capitalists in over 200 completed financings, and has served as the chairman of the Charter Committee for the National Venture Capital Association forms project and on the advisory boards of the 2004 through 2010 VentureOne Deal Terms Reports. Mike’s public offering practice includes the representation of issuers as well as investment banking firms in a wide variety of public and quasi-public offerings, including IPOs, convertible debt transactions and PIPEs.

Mike is a frequent public speaker on matters relating to venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions, PIPE transactions, public offerings, and other topics relevant to private and public technology companies.