Michael B. Singer

Michael Singer advises clients on a wide variety of antitrust matters related to mergers and acquisitions, including representing clients before the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission. Mr. Singer has worked with clients across a diverse range of industries, including aerospace and defense, consumer products, technology, health care, pharmaceuticals, financial services and private equity. His representations include:

• Stryker Corporation in its $5.4 billion acquisition of Wright Medical Group
• DuPont in its $45.4 billion merger of its Nutrition & Biosciences business with International Flavors and Fragrances Inc.
• Red Hat, Inc. in its $34 billion acquisition by IBM
• WABCO Holdings in its $7 billion acquisition by ZF Friedrichshafen
• Caesars Entertainment Corporation in its $17.3 billion merger with Eldorado Resorts, Inc.
• CPI International, Inc. in its acquisition of the antenna systems business of General Dynamics
• E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company in its $130 billion merger of equals with The Dow Chemical Company
• Express Scripts Holding Company in its $67 billion acquisition by Cigna
• Rockwell Collins, Inc. in its $30 billion acquisition by United Technologies Corporation
• EMC Corporation in its $67 billion acquisition by Denali Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Dell, Inc.
• Springleaf Holdings, Inc. in its $4.25 billion acquisition of OneMain Financial
• Ash Grove Cement Company in its $3.5 billion acquisition by CRH plc
• Hospira, Inc. in its $16 billion acquisition by Pfizer, Inc.
• numerous sales and acquisitions for The Carlyle Group and its portfolio companies
• numerous sales and acquisitions for Veritas Capital and its portfolio companies

Mr. Singer also provides general antitrust counseling and has advised clients on a variety of matters, including joint ventures, strategic alliances, unilateral conduct, and pricing and distribution issues.

Additionally, Mr. Singer routinely represents veterans on a pro bono basis in applications and appeals for compensation and benefits before the Department of Veterans Affairs, as well as not-for-profits in connection with incorporation and formation issues. He also serves as an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law, where he teaches a class on antitrust and cross-border mergers, and is a frequent contributor to the ABA Antitrust Law Section, Joint Conduct Committee’s “The Quick Look” newsletter.

Mr. Singer was named one of Best Lawyers’ 2024 Ones To Watch. He also won Best Business Article (General Economics) at Concurrences’ 2024 Antitrust Writing Awards for “Private Equity and Competition — Comparing U.S. Agency Views to Recent Policy and Empirical Evidence,” co-authored with Kenneth Schwartz and Isabel Tecu.