Michael Senders
Lawyers
Advises U.S. and international clients on a broad range of public and private company M&A, sports transactions, private equity transactions and joint ventures.
Michael advises U.S. and international clients on a broad range of domestic and cross-border public and private company mergers and acquisitions, investments, carve-outs, joint ventures and other general corporate matters. His work spans a number of industries, including sports, consumer products and retail, financial services, fintech, media and telecom. He also advises private equity firms and their portfolio companies on a variety of transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions of investments, leveraged buyouts and co-investment arrangements.
Experience highlights
Recent Representations
- Josh Harris acquisition of Washington Commanders
- Ferrero Group acquisition of Wells Enterprises
- Verisk $3.1 billion sale of Wood Mackenzie to Veritas Capital
- Baker Hughes sale of Nexus Controls to GE Gas Power
- Comcast streaming platform JV with Charter
- Cox Media Group sale of television stations to Imagicomm Communications
- Verisk sale of 3E business to New Mountain Capital
- Valley National Bancorp to merge with Bank Leumi USA
- AgileThought to combine with LIV Capital Acquisition Corp. and list on Nasdaq
- Galaxy Digital $1.2 billion acquisition of BitGo, U.S. domestication and listing
- Roivant Sciences combination with Montes Archimedes Acquisition
- Alliance Data Systems acquisition of Bread
- Sterling Equities sale of the New York Mets
- Morgan Stanley $13 billion acquisition of E*TRADE Financial
- Davis Polk Advises Comcast and NBCUniversal on Their Chicago Regional Sports Network
- Temenos $559 million acquisition of Kony
Education
J.D., Hofstra University, Maurice A. Deane School of Law
- summa cum laude
- Maurice A. Deane Award (First in Class)
B.B.A., Finance, CUNY Baruch College
- summa cum laude
Professional history
- Counsel, 2023-present
- Davis Polk since 2016
Qualifications and admissions
- State of New York