Mike Schiffer advises publicly and privately held REITs and other corporations in connection with major transactions, corporate governance issues, securities transactions and other financings. He has also represented several private companies in M&A transactions and venture capital investments and lenders and borrowers in subordinated loan transactions, second lien loans and related equity investments. Mr. Schiffer co-chairs Venable's Junior Capital / Mezzanine Finance Practice Group.

In the past few years, Mr. Schiffer has served as Maryland counsel to Arden Realty, Bedford Properties, Prentiss and Reckson in their mergers and as counsel or Maryland counsel for the Special Committees of Eagle Hospitality, ECC Capital Corporation and Capital Automotive in their consideration and negotiation of strategic alternatives. He has also represented an electronics manufacturer in its sale to a Fortune 100 company, subordinated lenders in several transactions (both secured and unsecured, with equity (including warrants) and without) and the borrower in a second-lien financing.

Activities

Mike is a member of the Board of Directors of the South Baltimore Learning Center, a community-based adult literacy school, and a member of the Board of Directors of Target Community & Educational Services, Inc., a non-profit organization whose mission is to enhance the lives of children and adults with disabilities through quality, community-based residential, educational, vocational, recreational, and family support services. Mike also was a member of the Steering Committee of the Maryland Bar Association's joint committee on opinion practice in business transactions.