Michael Ecker focuses his practice on corporate matters including emerging growth & technology, financial institutions and health law.
Representative Matters
· Represents entrepreneurs, publicly- and privately-held emerging businesses, corporations, partnerships, and joint ventures in diverse industries in a variety of corporate and transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, public and private finance and corporate governance;
· Bank and borrower counsel in secured lending transactions;
· Customer and vendor counsel in software licensing, implementation and maintenance agreements;
· Hospital counsel in transactions involving employment of or joint-ventures with physicians, payors and physician group;
· Health care regulatory counsel for financing company to hospital and physician groups;
· Corporate and transactional counsel for a cigar manufacturer and for a cigar distributor;
· Counsel to physicians in negotiation of employment agreements, ownership arrangement, practice termination, payor relations and joint ventures;
· Corporate counsel to closely-held businesses for succession planning and key employee equity plans;
· Transactional counsel for real estate developers in the purchase/sale, development and funding of real estate projects;
· Corporate counsel in 363 and bankruptcy related transactions;
· Capital formation for hospitality and entertainment clients;
· Buy-side and sell-side counsel in transactions as large as $300 million.
Professional Affiliations
Philadelphia Bar Association - Executive Committee Secretary of the Business Law Section; Member of the Business Law and Cyberlaw sections; Member of the Mergers & Acquisitions committee
Pennsylvania Bar Association - Committee on Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility; Business Law Section
American Bar Association - Health Law Section
Articles/Speeches/Presentations
· "Negotiating IP Licenses: Pretexting, Posturing, Poker and Other Ethical Considerations," presented at American Law Institute - American Bar Association, May 2010.
· "Pennsylvania LLC Documents - Corporate Model, Classes of Members and Family LLCs," presented at Pennsylvania Bar Institute, March 2010.
· "PBI Lawyer's Guide to Organizational Documents - The Shareholder Agreement," presented at Pennsylvania Bar Institute March 2010.
· "Security Law Update," presented to the CSO Breakfast Club™ January 2010.
· "Privacy and Security - e-Commerce Legal Issues," presented at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's program on E-Commerce: Legal and Practical Issues, December 2009.
· "Peeking Inside the Black Box - Practical Insights into Software Licensing and Related Agreements," presented at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's 15th Annual Lawyers' Institute, November 2009.
· "Fiduciary duties apply to all sized companies," Eckert Seamans' Legal Update, Spring 2009.
· "E-Commerce: Legal and Practical Issues," co-presented with Gregory Teufel to CEO Breakfast Club, January 2009.
· "Eyeing Your Firm's Form of Organization," published in Law Firm Management, July 2008.
· "Mergers and Acquisitions: Practice Process...and Forms!" presented at a Pennsylvania Bar Institute program, April 2007.
· "Drafting Shareholders Agreements," presented at a Pennsylvania Bar Institute program, March 2007.