Michael D. Makofsky
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Michael D. Makofsky is a principal at McCarthy, Lebit, Crystal & Liffman Co., L.P.A. He represents a broad range of financial institutions and financial service providers, including banks, private equity funds, commercial finance companies and mezzanine lenders. Mr. Makofsky counsels borrowers, agents and syndicate members in commercial finance transactions ranging from large transactions to single-lender, single-borrower transactions. He has significant experience in asset based lending, cash flow lending, multi-state, multi-currency and cross-border secured financing, financing secured by unusual types of collateral, ESOP loans, letter of credit facilities, health care financing, bond financing, and other capital transactions.
Mr. Makofsky also represents diverse businesses in transactional, day-to-day industry matters including those businesses who are selling, acquiring, reorganizing, or merging. He assists clients in all aspects of complex mergers and acquisitions, such as structuring the transaction, performing due diligence, securing financing relationships, negotiating terms and documenting transactions.
Mr. Makofsky's work has been published on CraneTech.com
Areas of Practice
- Commercial Finance Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Business Law
- Real Estate Law
Bar Admissions
- Ohio
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Ohio
Education
- Case Western Reserve University Law School, Cleveland, Ohio
- J.D.
- Law Review: Case Western Reserve University Law Review, Articles Editor, Associate
- University of Connecticut
- B.A.
Published Works
- On Line Trading and Investor Education, CrainTech.com, Summer, 2002
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), Cleveland Chapter, Member
- Ohio State Bar Association, Member
- Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, Member & Chair


