Michael J. Mozes is an associate with Foley & Lardner LLP where he is a member of the firm’s Private Equity & Venture Capital and Transactional & Securities Practices.
Mr. Mozes practices in the area of investment management, representing public and private pension plans regarding their investments in private equity funds, hedge funds, fund of funds and other alternative investment structures. Mr. Mozes also counsels investment advisers regarding federal and state regulatory compliance.
Mr. Mozes also represents companies in all stages of growth in a variety of transactional matters, including entity structure, formation, and corporate governance, financing transactions, and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Mozes also advises private equity and venture capital funds in connection with their investments in portfolio companies.
Before entering law school, Mr. Mozes was an intern at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he conducted Sarbanes Oxley financial reporting compliance work, regulatory compliance work, and quarterly review procedures for a major private mortgage banking client and a government-backed mortgage bank.
Mr. Mozes earned his law degree from Harvard Law School (J.D., 2011) where he was a senior editor for the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. He was also on the executive board for the Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law. Mr. Mozes earned both a Master of Accounting and a Bachelor of Science in business administration, summa cum laude, with honors in accounting, from the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University. He was vice president of Beta Alpha Psi and received the Fisher College of Business Pace Setter Award, the highest honor awarded by the College.
Mr. Mozes is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the Massachusetts Society of CPA’s.
Mr. Mozes co-authored, "Adjusting the Stream? Analyzing Major League Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption after American Needle," Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law, Vol. 2, p. 265 (2011). He received Harvard’s Paul C. Weiler Student Writing Prize for his work on the paper.
Mr. Mozes is admitted to practice in Massachusetts.