Mike Greenberg

Partner Tax

Los Angeles – Century City +1 310 552 4253

Mike Greenberg

Overview

Mike Greenberg is a partner in the Tax Group. Mike represents U.S. and non-U.S. investment fund sponsors in connection with the formation of funds investing in a broad range of asset classes. In particular, he concentrates his practice on the organization and structuring of real estate, infrastructure and other alternative-asset investment funds.

Mike regularly advises on the tax aspects of fund coinvestments, restructurings and recapitalizations, fund secondary transactions (including continuation funds) and minority investments in fund sponsor groups. He also works closely with fund principals in establishing upper-tier holding vehicle structures and management arrangements to optimize for taxes and governance.

Mike has significant experience representing offshore investors in the U.S. property and infrastructure markets and maintains a broad tax planning practice representing REITs and other investors in real estate and infrastructure assets, including traditional mergers and acquisitions and strategic joint ventures.

Representative Clients

Buyout / Credit / Growth / Venture: Accel-KKR, Avesi Partners, Beach Point Capital Management, Brentwood Associates, Clearhaven Partners, CoVenture Management, Gryphon Partners, Keystone Capital, Quiet Capital, Shamrock Capital Advisors, STG Partners LLC, Sunstone Partners Management, Thoma Bravo, Transformation Capital

Real Estate / Infrastructure: AJ Capital Partners, Berkshire Partners, Bridge Investment Group, Core Spaces, Covenant Capital Group, Digital Realty Trust, ElmTree Funds, Equity Lifestyle Properties, GI Partners, Host Hotels & Resorts, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., King Street Capital, MCR Investors, Northleaf Capital Partners, Quadreal Property Group, Realterm Logistics, Related Fund Management, SDC Capital Partners, Shorenstein Realty Services, Town Lane, Varde Partners

Investment Funds

  • Avesi Partners LLC on the closing of Avesi Partners Fund II LP (Fund II) at $1.35 billion
  • Town Lane on the closing of its inaugural fund Town Lane Real Estate Opportunities Fund I (Fund I) at $1.25 billion
  • Frontenac on the completion of its oversubscribed continuation fund transaction to fund future growth initiatives of portfolio company, Motion & Control Enterprises (MCE)
  • STG on the closing of STG VII at $4.2 billion of committed capital, including Palistar Capital-backlimited partner commitments of $4 billion
  • Shamrock Capital on the formation and fundraising of its third media content fund, Shamrock Capital Content Fund III, L.P., at over $600 million
  • Melody Investment Advisors LP on the final close of its oversubscribed fund, Melody Communications Infrastructure Fund II, at $1.95 billion
  • Northleaf Capital Partners on the launch of Northleaf Essential Infrastructure Fund (NEIF), an $800 million open-end infrastructure investment fund

Transactions

  • CapZone Impact Investments in its acquisition of the Alabama Shipyard, a shipyard that will be modernized in collaboration with the U.S. Navy to support U.S. nuclear submarine programs
  • King Street in its acquisition of Colovore, a data center operator
  • Funds managed by DIF Capital Partners, funds managed by Northleaf Capital Partners and HICL Infrastructure PLC on the sale of the Northwest Parkway to VINCI Highways
  • Stockbridge Capital Group in the minority investment from the National Pension Service of Korea
  • Shamrock Capital in strategic minority investment in its business by RidgeLake Partners and Bonaccord Capital Partners
  • Palistar Capital-backed Harmoni Towers, in its acquisition of Parallel Infrastructure from Apollo Global Management (NYSE: APO)
  • Windjammer Senior Equity Fund V, alongside AlpInvest (single asset fund), in the acquisition of Vital Records Control from Windjammer Senior Equity Fund IV

DLA Piper LLP (US), 2012–2019

White & Case LLP, 2010–2012

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Recognition

US Taxes: Contentious, The Legal 500 United States, 2020

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • California
  • New York

Education

  • New York University School of LawLL.M., Taxation2010
  • Albany Law SchoolJ.D.summa cum laude2009
    Albany Law Review
  • New York UniversityB.A., Philosophycum laude2006