Michael A. Serafini

As an active M&A practitioner, Mike is also a co-leader of Mayer Brown’s transactional liability insurance practice, with significant experience representing underwriters in issuing representation and warranty insurance. 

• Redwood Trust in connection with a joint venture with funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. to invest in business-purpose bridge loans originated by CoreVest American Finance Lender, a division of Redwood.
• MFA Financial, Inc. in connection with several of its preferred and minority common equity investments.
• Bayview Asset Management in connection with various mortgage M&A transactions.
• The seller of a servicing platform and assets of a mortgage-servicing company.
• Carrington Capital Management in numerous strategic acquisitions and divestitures, including as a stalking horse bidder in its acquisition of the mortgage loan servicing business of New Century Financial Corporation.
• Ocwen Financial Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiary, Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, in its acquisition of the US mortgage servicing business, HomeEq Servicing, from Barclays Bank PLC.

Infrastructure

Represented:

• Investors in the lease and development of the new Terminal 6 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.
• Ullico Infrastructure Fund in connection with the acquisition of 49 percent of the outstanding membership interest of Autopistas Metropolitanas de Puerto Rico, LLC from two infrastructure funds managed by Goldman Sachs.
• The consortium of Abertis Infraestructuas and John Hancock in their acquisition of Elizabeth River Crossings, a long-term toll highway and tunnel concession in Virginia.
• HMSHost Corporation in the sale of its highway rest area concession business as a carve-out sale transaction.
• Australia-based Queensland Investment Corporation on a long-term parking and mobility concession at Northeastern University, a private university in Boston, Massachusetts, and with respect to other corporate matters.
• The Public Sector Pension Investment Board in connection with its equity investment in Aerostar Airport Holdings LLC, which is the operator of the Luis Muñoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• Carlyle Infrastructure Partners in the divestiture of a portfolio company.
• The City of Chicago on the proposed long-term concession of Chicago Midway International Airport.

Other

Represented:

• Plateplus Inc. in several complex divestitures.
• Packaging Corporation of America in several complex acquisitions and other corporate matters.
• Metal One in its acquisition of Cargill’s US metals business.Metal One is a steel-trading and distribution joint venture subsidiary of Mitsubishi and Sojitz.
• Commvault, Inc. in its acquisition of Hedvig, Inc. and other corporate transactions.
• A Cargill affiliate in a strategic equity investment in an Argentine company.
• Caterpillar, Inc. in its acquisition of Bucyrus International, Inc.