Bio

Michael Mentzel practice includes both for profit and nonprofit business law across multiple industries with special emphasis in the biotech, pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. His healthcare practice includes the representation of medical institutions, physicians and medical practices. With over 35 years of experience in a broad commercial practice, Mike serves as outside general counsel to many of his clients who value his business acumen, creativity and responsiveness. Mike has extensive experience in the area of general business and nonprofit law representing entities of all sizes, but concentrating on the middle market. Mike puts his experience to work in advising clients from initial formation, through growth, financing, strategic alliances, acquisitions and ultimate sale by structuring, negotiating and successfully closing business transactions. He has represented founders and businesses in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries in their commercial arrangements. Mike’s representation of healthcare clients includes healthcare institutions, medical practices, providers of healthcare-related services, healthcare management companies and individual physicians. He advises clients in structuring and drafting shareholder agreements, physician employment agreements, stock purchase agreements and restrictive covenants. Mike’s representation of individual physicians includes those seeking their first professional position, either joining an existing practice or a hospital-based practice, and physicians who are relocating their substantial clinical practices and research programs to a new major medical institution.