About Michael
Michael J. Bonner concentrates his practice in the areas of corporation finance, corporate governance, business transactions, securities and gaming.Michael represents clients in corporate securities and other business transactions, including acting as lead counsel on initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, private placements and a variety of financing, acquisition and restructuring transactions for publicly held and privately held business entities. He counsels publicly held companies on disclosure obligations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including the preparation of annual reports to stockholders, proxy statements, and annual and quarterly periodic reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).Michael acts as outside counsel to boards of directors and special committees of boards of directors of publicly held and privately held entities. He acts as counsel to purchasers and sellers in merger and acquisition, asset purchase and sale, roll-ups and other acquisition-related transactions.Michael represents publicly held and privately held hotel-casino resort operators, manufacturers, suppliers, lenders and officers, directors, and key employees in transactional, licensing and other approvals before the Nevada State Gaming Control Board and the Nevada Gaming Commission.As the former Chairman of the Corporation's Sub-Committee of the State Bar of Nevada Business Law Committee, he assisted in the drafting and implementation of amendments to the Nevada corporation statutes; and participated in the complete review and revision of the Nevada corporation and business entity statutes in 1991.
Michael J. Bonner concentrates his practice in the areas of corporation finance, corporate governance, business transactions, securities and gaming.
Michael represents clients in corporate securities and other business transactions, including acting as lead counsel on initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, private placements and a variety of financing, acquisition and restructuring transactions for publicly held and privately held business entities. He counsels publicly held companies on disclosure obligations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including the preparation of annual reports to stockholders, proxy statements, and annual and quarterly periodic reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Michael acts as outside counsel to boards of directors and special committees of boards of directors of publicly held and privately held entities. He acts as counsel to purchasers and sellers in merger and acquisition, asset purchase and sale, roll-ups and other acquisition-related transactions.
Michael represents publicly held and privately held hotel-casino resort operators, manufacturers, suppliers, lenders and officers, directors, and key employees in transactional, licensing and other approvals before the Nevada State Gaming Control Board and the Nevada Gaming Commission.
As the former Chairman of the Corporation's Sub-Committee of the State Bar of Nevada Business Law Committee, he assisted in the drafting and implementation of amendments to the Nevada corporation statutes; and participated in the complete review and revision of the Nevada corporation and business entity statutes in 1991.
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- Lawyer of the Year: Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Las Vegas (2024)
- Lawyer of the Year: Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Las Vegas (2019)
- Lawyer of the Year: Corporate Law, Las Vegas (2018)
- Lawyer of the Year: Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Las Vegas (2017)
- Lawyer of the Year: Gaming Law, Las Vegas (2016)
- Lawyer of the Year: Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Las Vegas (2014)
- Lawyer of the Year: Corporate Law, Las Vegas (2012)
- Recognized: Corporate Law
- Recognized: Gaming Law
- Recognized: Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Special Focus: Administrative
- Special Focus: Business Transactions
- Special Focus: Casino
- Special Focus: Closely-Held Businesses
- Special Focus: Corporate Compliance
- Special Focus: Corporate Finance
- Special Focus: Corporate Governance
- Special Focus: General Corporate
- Special Focus: IPO
- Special Focus: Licensing
- Special Focus: Mergers & Acquisitions
- Special Focus: Publicly-Held Companies
- Special Focus: Securities
- Special Focus: Transactions
- Special Focus: Venture Capital
- AV Preeminent® 5.0 out of 5
- Las Vegas Business Press, "Top 10 Business Lawyers in Las Vegas," 2009
- "Leading Individual" Corporate/M&A, Gaming and Licensing - Nevada, Chambers USA Guide, 2002-2013
- Super Lawyers magazine, Mountain States Super Lawyers, 2007-2013 "Top 75 Lawyers in the Mountain States," 2011
- "Legal Elite: The Silver State's Top Attorneys," 2009-2013
- VEGAS INC, "Top Lawyers," Corporate and Securities, 2013