Focusing primarily on finance, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate restructuring, Michael J. Pedrick represents borrowers in financing transactions and corporate clients in strategic acquisitions and internal restructuring. He handles a wide range of finance matters, including syndicated credits with institutional lenders, leveraged acquisition and asset-based financings, and senior and mezzanine venture financings. Michael counsels clients in the use of limited recourse and bankruptcy-remote financing vehicles. He also handles financing issues in restructurings, workouts, and bankruptcies.
Michael advises lenders in providing term and warehouse facilities and counsels institutional lenders in aircraft and equipment leasing fields. He handles structuring credits among nontraditional lenders in connection with strategic arrangements between the parties.
In his mergers and acquisitions practice, Michael focuses on acquisitions and dispositions of private companies. He has handled transactions ranging in value from $5 million to $925 million in the aerospace and defense, medical device, textile, and grocery industries, among others. He also has used Chapter 11 proceedings to accomplish acquisitions, and frequently represents non-US corporations in acquisitions and dispositions in the US.
Michael assists clients in internal restructurings, addressing both corporate organization and limitations of liability issues.
Michael has practiced law with Morgan Lewis since 1988.Lawyer of the Year, Banking and Finance Law, Philadelphia, The Best Lawyers in America (2023)
Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Banking and Finance Law, Philadelphia (2022–2025)
Band 1, Banking & Finance, Pennsylvania: Philadelphia & Surrounds, Chambers USA (2024)
Ranked, Banking & Finance, Philadelphia & Surrounds, Chambers USA (2019, 2022, 2023)
Ranked, Banking & Finance, Pennsylvania, Chambers USA (2006–2021)
Listed, Acritas Star Lawyer (2017)
Director, British American Business Council of Greater Philadelphia (BABCPHL)