Michael R. Fayhee, P.C. is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Chicago office. He is head of the Firm’s Tax Business Unit. He focuses his practice on transactional matters, with a particular emphasis on mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and the related financing required for such transactions.
Michael is recognized by The Legal 500 United States as one of the leading lawyers in his field.
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
