Michael concentrates his practice in the areas of corporate and securities law, including:
- complex corporate transactions
- mergers and acquisitions
- financing
- federal securities regulations under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Michael also counsels and assists hospitals, nonprofit foundations, skilled nursing facilities, and other clients in handling overlapping business, financial, governance, and legal issues. For over 25 years, he has served as general counsel to Deborah Heart and Lung Center and Deborah Hospital Foundation in Browns Mills, NJ.
From 2000 to 2008, Michael served as Chair of the firm's Corporate Department. From 2003 to 2006, Michael served as a member of the Executive Committee of Fox Rothschild.
Michael was the Managing Partner of Cohen, Shapiro, Polisher, Shiekman, and Cohen in Philadelphia and Lawrenceville, NJ, and a member of its Executive Committee. As an undergraduate at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, he received the Beta Gamma Sigma award for the highest overall grade point average in his graduating class and the Haskins & Sells Award for excellence as an accounting major.
Michael frequently writes and speaks on topics such as corporate compliance and business ethics, bioethics, and business and nonprofit law. In recent years Michael has been a guest lecturer on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and business ethics in classes in the Graduate and Undergraduate Divisions of the Wharton School. In 2010, he will teach several classes at Wharton on Sarbanes-Oxley and the Madoff scandal. Past president of the Jewish Geriatric Home in Cherry Hill, NJ, he has also served as a public member of the Advisory Graduate Medical Education Council of New Jersey.
Michael contributes to a blog that provides information regarding cutting-edge legal and practical developments that health care providers and businesses must consider with regard to the handling and sharing of health information, including through the use of electronic health records.
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• Martindale-Hubbell "AV" rated
• Selected as a "Super Lawyer" by New Jersey Monthly Magazine and Law & Politics Magazine