Michael M. Mannix is a partner in Holland & Knight's Northern Virginia office. He practices corporate law and corporate finance and is the team leader for the Business Law Section's Mid-Atlantic Region. He represents clients in IT, software, engineering, telecommunications, electronics, e-learning, defense products, medical devices and other industries of which many are government contractors.

Mr. Mannix represents public and private companies and his practice emphasizes mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, securities offerings, as well as technology transactions. His seasoned approach to problem solving results in efficient delivery of legal assistance and permits seamless integration of other practice areas, including: HSR and antitrust, government contracts, intellectual property, tax, employee benefits, litigation and real property. Mr. Mannix has been the lead or co-lead counsel in recent matters having an aggregate value in excess of $2 billion.

Mr. Mannix has represented acquirors and targets in a large number of mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and joint ventures. He is regularly involved in all phases of these transactions, including initial planning, structuring, negotiation and closing.

Mr. Mannix also counsels clients on a broad range of other corporate, securities and business related matters, including director's duties and responsibilities and other aspects of corporate governance, disclosure issues, corporate compliance matters and corporate finance transactions.

Mr. Mannix is a frequent lecturer on matters involving mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, corporate law and legal ethics and regularly speaks to industry groups in government contracting and other technology industries.