Michael Hughes
P 973 438 4493
F 646 437 3549
mhughes@swalegal.com

Education

  • Rutgers-Newark School of Law (J.D.) 1996
  • University of Scranton (B.S.) 1991

Career

  • Document Security Systems, Inc. (General Counsel)
  • McDermott, Will & Emery
  • Shack & Siegel
  • Lowenstein, Sandler

Bar Admission

  • New York

Practice Areas

  • Corporate
  • Securities

Michael Hughes

Michael is a member of the corporate and securities practice groups.  His has experience representing public and private companies.  His transactional experience includes initial public offerings, spin-offs, secondary offerings, and mergers & acquisitions.  He has significant experience with general corporate work, including contractual work, ‘34 Act filings, filings on Forms 3, 4 and 5, corporate restructurings, stock option plan administration and other day-to-day corporate matters.  Prior to joining SWA, Michael was  General Counsel for an AMEX-listed company for two years.

Representative Matters

  • Secondary offering of Net2Phone, Inc. stock.
  • Secondary offerings of Document Security Systems, Inc. stock.
  • Acquisition of 4Sure.com by Office Depot.
  • Multiple Form 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K filings for IDT Corporation and Document Security Systems, Inc.
  • Multiple private equity transactions representing Pegasus Partners, L.P.
  • Multiple acquisitions of private companies representing both private and public companies.