Michael J. O'Sullivan

Profile

Mike O’Sullivan is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Munger, Tolles & Olson. He focuses his corporate practice on advising companies and their boards of directors on corporate counseling and governance matters, issuers and underwriters in securities issuances, and bidders, targets and financial advisors in mergers and acquisitions transactions. Mr. O’Sullivan is also currently working on a multi-disciplinary team defending mortgage originators and servicers in litigation arising from mortgage-backed securities.

Mr. O’Sullivan graduated with honors in American history from the University of Pennsylvania. His honors thesis examined the origins of the Bank of North America, the New World’s first commercial bank. He then graduated first in his class from USC's Gould School of Law, served on the Southern California Law Review and taught legal writing.

Key Representations

  • Bank of America, as both plaintiff and defendant in some of its most significant litigation arising from the mortgage crisis.
  • KB Home, in all of its major acquisitions and financings since 1997, including most recently in a public offering of $350 million in new senior notes and a simultaneous tender offer for older senior notes.
  • Leslie Blodgett, CEO of Bare Escentuals, in connection with its $1.7 billion sale to Shiseido.
  • Berkshire Hathaway, in crafting a unique preferred stock that would work under Swiss law for its investment Swiss Re.
  • City National Corp., in its acquisition of controlling and minority stakes in ten different asset management companies, and most recently, in a subordinated note offering.
  • The two founders of Google, in that company’s initial public offering and in its recently-announced recapitalization.
  • A major talent agency, in its sale to a private equity firm.

Mike O’Sullivan is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Munger, Tolles & Olson. He focuses his corporate practice on advising companies and their boards of directors on corporate counseling and governance matters, issuers and underwriters in securities issuances, and bidders, targets and financial advisors in mergers and acquisitions transactions. Mr. O’Sullivan is also currently working on a multi-disciplinary team defending mortgage originators and servicers in litigation arising from mortgage-backed securities.

Mr. O’Sullivan graduated with honors in American history from the University of Pennsylvania. His honors thesis examined the origins of the Bank of North America, the New World’s first commercial bank. He then graduated first in his class from USC's Gould School of Law, served on the Southern California Law Review and taught legal writing.

Key Representations

  • Bank of America, as both plaintiff and defendant in some of its most significant litigation arising from the mortgage crisis.
  • KB Home, in all of its major acquisitions and financings since 1997, including most recently in a public offering of $350 million in new senior notes and a simultaneous tender offer for older senior notes.
  • Leslie Blodgett, CEO of Bare Escentuals, in connection with its $1.7 billion sale to Shiseido.
  • Berkshire Hathaway, in crafting a unique preferred stock that would work under Swiss law for its investment Swiss Re.
  • City National Corp., in its acquisition of controlling and minority stakes in ten different asset management companies, and most recently, in a subordinated note offering.
  • The two founders of Google, in that company’s initial public offering and in its recently-announced recapitalization.
  • A major talent agency, in its sale to a private equity firm.