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—Partner, Vice Chair, Mergers and Acquisitions Group

Michael LaCascia is the vice chair of the Mergers and Acquisitions Group and a member of the Banking and Financial Services and Antitrust Groups.

Mr. LaCascia's practice primarily involves mergers and acquisitions of both publicly traded and private companies, advising financial advisors in connection with mergers and acquisition activities, public offerings of securities (as both issuer's and underwriter's counsel), venture capital work and general corporate work for ongoing clients.

Mr. LaCascia has represented buyers and sellers in public and private transactions, including the following:

• SilverStream Software, Inc.’s $158 million disposition to Novell, Inc.
• Innoveda, Inc.’s $212 million disposition to Mentor Graphics Corporation
• PerkinElmer, Inc.’s $600 million acquisition of Packard BioScience Company
• CMGI, Inc.’s $1.8 billion acquisition of AdForce, Inc.
• CMGI, Inc.’s $2.5 billion acquisition of Flycast Communications Corp.
• NMT Medical, Inc.’s $50 million disposition of its vena cava filter business to C.R. Bard, Inc.
• Spring Tide Networks’ $1.5 billion sale to Lucent Technologies
• AMI Leasing’s sale to Ford Motor Credit Company
• EnergyNorth Inc.’s $250 million sale to Eastern Enterprises (Boston Gas)
• Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.’s sale of its Mauna La’i product line
• Nordica N.V.’s acquisition of Rollerblade, Inc.

Mr. LaCascia received a J.D. degree from Boston University School of Law, where he was an editor of The Annual Review of Banking Law. He received an A.B. degree, cum laude, from Harvard College.

Mr. LaCascia is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.