Michael Walenciak represents privately held companies and their owners in the transactions that decide what a business becomes — acquisitions and exits, recapitalizations, partner separations, and the entity structures that hold it all together. His practice sits in the lower middle market, where deals are too small for the largest firms and too complicated for a general practitioner, and he has closed them across semiconductors and technology, restaurants and hospitality, engineering and construction services, telecommunications, energy, and enterprise software — including cross-border transactions with buyers in Taiwan and the United Kingdom.
Michael holds a J.D. and an M.B.A. from the University of Oklahoma, and clients tend to use him the way they would use an in-house lawyer: he is as likely to be reconstructing a capitalization table, resolving a banking-authority deadlock between members, or serving a breach notice on a vendor as he is to be papering a stock purchase agreement. Several companies retain him as outside general counsel, and much of his work involves assembling and managing the wider team a transaction needs — bankers, accountants, valuation professionals and specialist counsel — around an owner who has never sold a business before.
