Practice Areas
- Corporate Finance
- Corporate Governance
- Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions/Securities
- Environmental
- Mergers & Acquisitions
Education
- B.A., Duke University
- J.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Order of the Coif; Associate Editor, North Carolina Law Review
Bar & Court Admissions
- North Carolina Bar
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 4th & 8th Circuits
- N.C. Supreme Court
- N.C. Court of Appeals
Ernest (Mike) S. DeLaney, III
Mike DeLaney is the co-head of Moore & Van Allen’s corporate practice and represents both public and private companies in their ongoing business affairs. He has extensive experience in negotiating, structuring and advising clients with respect to acquisition transactions and related matters including stock acquisitions, asset purchases, mergers and joint ventures.
Mr. DeLaney advises companies with respect to corporate governance matters and regularly attends board, committee and shareholder meetings of public and private companies in that regard. He also represents clients in corporate finance matters including public and private equity and debt offerings and has in-depth experience representing clients with respect to industrial development revenue bonds financing.
Mr. DeLaney assists clients with siting and environmental permitting of manufacturing facilities, acquiring land and major equipment and procuring materials and services. He is also experienced and successful in representing high profile domestic and international companies in the negotiation of tax and other incentives for new and expanding industrial facilities.
AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION
- Listed in Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business (Corporate/M&A)
- Listed in North Carolina's Legal Elite, published by North Carolina Business Magazine
- Listed in North Carolina Super Lawyers, published by Law & Politics'