Michael A. Tyner Jr.

Prior to joining Moore & Van Allen, Michael served as Corporate Counsel for The Home Depot where he focused on advising several business units on complex commercial transactions and assisted with their related businesses on M&A and other complex transactions. He brings his experience and  perspective to understanding the challenges and issues facing in-house counsel on a daily basis. Clients appreciate that Michael understands their concerns and businesses and his ability to help them navigate the practical issues and legal issues.

In addition to providing day-to-day counsel on general corporate matters, he has managed, as both in-house and external counsel,  a wide range of complex transactions and agreements domestically and internationally, including:

• Complex commercial contracts, including SAAS Master Services and Cloud services agreements, independent contractor agreements and outsourcing contracts
• Acquisitions and divestitures of stock and assets
• Equity and acquisition financing transactions
• Leveraged buyouts
• Strategic and venture capital investments
• Joint ventures
• Bankruptcy and restructuring transactions
• Recapitalizations and other control and non-control transactions

In each engagement, Michael helps clients identify and manage legal risks while advancing practical solutions to meet their strategic objectives. 

Representative Experience

Team member experience prior to joining Moore & Van Allen

Private Equity, Investment Funds & Strategic Investments

• Represented portfolio companies of a leading private equity firm in multiple acquisitions.
• Represented a private investment firm in connection with (i) the sale of a 49% ownership stake to a publicly traded lodging REIT and (ii) the investment by the REIT as a limited partner in the newly formed hospitality fund.
• Represented a private investment firm in its strategic partnership with a publicly traded lodging REIT, the world’s largest lodging REIT.
• Represented a global package delivery and logistics company in its equity investment in an e-commerce solutions provider, made concurrently with the provider’s entry into a merger agreement with a publicly traded e-commerce software company.

Healthcare, Medical Technology & Life Sciences

• Represented a publicly traded medical technology company in its acquisition of a medical device company offering an interoperable connectivity solution that integrates ECG reporting across numerous platforms and all major electronic medical record (EMR) vendors.
• Represented a publicly traded medical technology company in its acquisition of a digital health innovator and leading provider of ambulatory cardiac monitoring technologies, and in related litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery.

Industrial, Manufacturing & Energy Services

• Advised a leading provider of water and wastewater equipment and services in its acquisitions of multiple businesses serving in the municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment market.
• Represented a global professional appliance company in its acquisition of a commercial foodservice equipment business from a diversified industrial company.
• Represented a publicly traded oilfield services company in its acquisition of the sand hauling, wellsite storage, and last-mile logistics businesses of an oilfield logistics company.
• Represented a publicly traded oilfield services company in its $268 million acquisition of a pressure pumping company.

Consumer, Retail & Business Services

• Advised a leading home improvement retailer in connection with its acquisition of home services businesses.
• Represented a global restaurant company in the sale of its business to an affiliate of several investment firms.
• Advised an international car wash operator in multiple acquisitions of car wash businesses.
• Represented a publicly traded financial services company in the sale of its legacy U.S. direct lending business and in its acquisition of a consumer finance company.

Transportation, Logistics & Aviation

• Advised a transportation and logistics company in its acquisition of certain assets from the freight transportation subsidiary of a global logistics company, and in related agreements to lease trucks and trailers from the parent company.
• Represented a publicly traded medical technology and transportation company in its acquisition of a premier U.S. charter flight operator.

Notable

• The National Black Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 – 2023, 2024