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Michael F. Fitzpatrick, Jr.

Partner

Overview

Michael’s practice focuses on representing issuers and underwriters in capital markets transactions, principally in the power and utilities arena. Michael has extensive experience advising clients on a broad range of securities transactions including public and privately placed offerings of equity, first mortgage bonds, various debt/equity hybrid instruments, subordinated and convertible debt, collateral trust bonds, multi-modal tax-exempt bonds and dedicated utility rate securitization bonds.

Experience

  • Advises clients on corporate governance and compliance matters with the US securities laws, including Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Dodd-Frank Act.
  • Represented power and utilities clients on securities offerings.
  • Served as designated underwriters’ counsel and purchasers’ counsel to several utility holding companies and their subsidiaries.
  • Represented sponsors/issuers, underwriters and structuring advisors in connection with several dedicated rate reduction bond securitization financings, including stranded cost, environmental costs, and storm cost transactions.
  • Pro bono representation of veterans in their pursuit of combat-related special compensation benefits.

Accolades

Honors & Recognitions

  • Recommended for Capital Markets - Equity Offerings (2021-2024), Capital Markets - Debt Offerings (2022-2024) and Energy Transactions: Electric Power (2024), Legal 500 United States
  • Recognized as a Leader in Energy: Electricity – Finance (2012-2024) and Energy (2006-2016), USA-Nationwide, Chambers USA
  • Recognized as a Leader in Energy: Electricity – Finance, USA, Chambers Global, 2013-2024
  • Deal Maker of the Year, Finance Monthly, 2013
  • Selected as a Super Lawyer for Securities & Corporate Finance Law, The New York Times Magazine, 2016-2023

Affiliations

Professional

  • Vice Chairman, Infrastructure Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions Committee of the Section of Infrastructure and Regulated Industries, American Bar Association

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Education

JD, Fordham University School of Law, 1990

BS, Villanova University, cum laude, 1983

Admissions

New York

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