Michael Freitag

Partner Joele Frank

For more than three decades, Michael has provided strategic counsel and support to companies, individuals and institutions facing significant communications challenges and opportunities. He regularly advises boards and senior management teams on external and internal communications related to mergers & acquisitions, shareholder activism, C-suite management changes, crisis situations, litigation, and financial restructurings and bankruptcies. He also assists clients with ongoing reputation management, media relations and investor relations.
 
Michael began his career as a “copy boy” in the newsroom of the New York Times, where among other roles he served for two years as the news clerk to A.M. (Abe) Rosenthal, the columnist and former executive editor. He received a BA in political science from Yale University. Michael is a Trustee of Greenwich Library.