Mike Marcucci is an experienced, first-chair trial lawyer who has advocated on behalf of clients facing tricky, often novel, financial, commercial, and corporate governance issues. Mike also represents clients in complex litigation arising out of cybersecurity incidents such as ransomware attacks. He has tried matters concerning misappropriation of corporate opportunities, breach of fiduciary duty, fraudulent conveyance, unfair and deceptive trade practices, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), executive severance agreements, and bond trading. Mike has served as a first chair in a bankruptcy adversary proceeding and a contested corporate dissolution hearing. He has considerable experience litigating matters involving structured financial products.
Mike has argued a number of dispositive motions, including motions to dismiss in securities class actions, merger disputes, and residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) litigation, and has taken or defended dozens of depositions. He has tried an ERISA case to a successful verdict. Mike has litigated matters involving residential mortgage-backed securities, antitrust, corporate governance, accounting fraud, and minority shareholder rights, among others. Mike has also successfully resolved commercial and cyber disputes without litigation.
In addition to Massachusetts, Mike has considerable experience in New York courts, including the Supreme Court Commercial Division, Appellate Division, First Department, and the SDNY (Southern District).
Mike is active in his hometown of Medfield, Massachusetts, where he is chairman of the town's Affordable Housing Trust, and was a member of the Board of Selectmen from 2016 to 2022 and the Warrant Committee from 2013 to 2016.
- Boston College (J.D. summa cum laude 2001; Order of the Coif; Managing Editor, Boston College Law Review); Harvard University (B.A. magna cum laude 1998)
- Massachusetts, New York, U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First and Second Circuits, and U.S. District Courts for the District of Massachusetts and Southern District of New York
Massachusetts Super Lawyers (2015-2019, 2022)
New England Super Lawyers (2013-2014), including recognized as a"Rising Star" (2008-2012)
The Best Lawyers in America in commercial litigation (2023)
- Law Clerk to the Honorable Kenneth F. Ripple, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit (2001-2002)