Michael D. Baird

Partner

  • Michael D. Baird
  • Phone: +1 212 404 8771

    Import to Address Book

  • Duane Morris LLP
    22 Vanderbilt
    335 Madison Avenue, 23rd Floor
    New York, NY 10017-4669
    USA

Michael D. Baird practices in the area of corporate law, with a focus on securities, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance. Mr. Baird has experience negotiating and documenting a wide range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, securities offerings and debt financings, as well as a diverse range of commercial agreements.

Mr. Baird is a 2009 graduate of Columbia University School of Law, where he was a James Kent Scholar and articles editor of the Columbia Business Law Review. He earned an M.B.A. in Marketing from Villanova University and is a graduate of Princeton University, where he was a member of the cross country and track and field teams.

Areas of Practice

  • Corporate and Transactional Law
  • Intellectual Property
  • Privacy Law
  • Technology Law
  • Emerging Companies

Admissions

  • New York

Education

  • Columbia Law School, J.D., 2009
    - James Kent Scholar
    - Articles Editor, Columbia Business Law Review
  • Villanova University, M.B.A., Marketing, 2006
  • Princeton University, A.B., 2003

Experience

  • Duane Morris LLP
    - Partner, 2020-present
  • Satterlee Stephens LLP
    - Partner, 2018-2020
    - Associate, 2015-2018
  • Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
    - Associate, 2009-2015

Professional Activities

  • New York City Bar Association
    - Technology, Cyber and Privacy Law Committee, 2017-2022

Selected Speaking Engagements

  • Co-presenter, "Time to Think Bigger: Finding Value in Big Data Analytics," Webcast hosted by the Knowledge Group, April 2017

  • Moderator, "Big Data: Predictive Analytics Today and Tomorrow," Legal Network International Spring 2016 Meeting

Representative Matters

  • Advised Merrick Bank on purchasing $500 million in outstanding loan participations from the GreenSky program, which arranges consumer loans for home improvement projects. Merrick Bank’s parent company, CardWorks, Inc., as part of a consortium of investors, purchased the GreenSky platform from Goldman Sachs earlier this year, and Merrick Bank obtained an option to buy additional loan participations each month for a year after the closing, which could result in additional purchases totaling $240 to $360 million.

  • Advised Cardworks, Inc., a diversified consumer finance service provider, as part of a consortium of institutional investors including Sixth Street Partners and KKR, in acquiring the GreenSky lending platform from Goldman Sachs; GreenSky, the largest U.S. lending platform for home improvement loan originations by banks, is a leading technology company that powers commerce at the point of sale, and its scalable and proprietary technology platform enables merchants to provide frictionless promotional payment options to consumers. 

  • Represented Evaxion Biotech A/S, a clinical-stage TechBio company specializing in developing AI-Immunology™ powered vaccines, in its $15 million public offering; H.C. Wainwright & Co. acted as the exclusive placement agent for the offering.