Michael R. Fayhee, P.C. is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP, resident in its Chicago office. He is head of the Firm’s Tax Department. He focuses his practice on transactional matters, with a particular emphasis on mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and the related financing required for such transactions. Significant representations include the following:
Representative Experience
- Acting as general counsel to a $8 billion dairy food company
Structuring a management-led ESOP to acquire 30% of a food brokerage concern - Merger of eleven banks in the Farm Credit System, resulting in a new $12 billion bank
- Negotiate acquisition of a $150 million German manufacturing concern
- Managing significant tax controversies for the Farm Credit System
- Structuring a buying cooperative for the franchisees of a major fast-food chain
- Advising on the structure of an independent power plant for an electric co-op utility
- Structuring a venture capital investment in a closely held company
- Acquisition and financing of a West Coast cellular telephone company
- Restructuring and refinancing of a Texas-based manufacturing company out of a bankruptcy proceeding
- Advising a financial institution with regard to restructuring a $250 million loan package to a European borrower
- Formation of an English joint venture between a U.S.-based client and a large public French corporation
Michael is a frequent lecturer on tax matters and has taught in the master of tax program at John Marshall Law School. He is admitted to the Illinois bar and is a member of the American, Illinois and Chicago bar associations.
Education
- University of Michigan Law School, J.D. (cum laude), 1973
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.S., 1970
