Michael Lyon
Founder & Managing Director
Michael Lyon is the Founder and Managing Director of Vista Point Advisors. He brings more than 30 years of experience as a technology investment banker and chemical engineer. Michael has personally advised on more than 150 transactions totaling over $30 billion in enterprise value, spanning sell-side and buy-side advisory engagements as well as IPOs. Under Mike’s guidance, Vista Point specializes in advising founders of software and internet businesses through life-changing transactions.
Prior to founding Vista Point Advisors, Michael worked at Citigroup where he was a senior member of the technology M&A team. Previous to Citigroup Michael was an engineer for ExxonMobil and BP where he managed chemical plant operations. Michael has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Sell-side Transactions
- The sale of Pear Deck to GoGuardian, a Sumeru Equity Partners Company
- The sale of ServiceFusion
- The sale of Totara to Five V
- The sale of One Legal to InfoTrack
- The minority recapitalization of SurePrep by Bregal Sagemount
- The sale of Nymity to TrustArc, (Bregal Sagemount)
- The sale of Service Autopilot to Clearent (Advent, FTV)
- The majority recap of Appspace by LLR Partners
- The sale of zyBooks to Wiley
- The sale of Freckle Education to Renaissance, (Francisco Partners)
- The sale of Vuture to Campaign Monitor (Insight Partners)
- The sale of test IO to EPAM Systems
- The sale of Rental History Reports and Trusted Employees to MRI ( TA Associates and GI Partners)
- The sale of ValuePenguin to LendingTree
- The majority recapitalization of VeriShip by Summit Partners
- The majority recapitalization of BizLibrary by Primus Capital
- The sale of TelTech to IAC
- The majority recapitalization of Revolution IT by Pemba Capital Partners
- The majority recapitalization of GoGuardian from Sumeru Equity Partners
- The majority recapitalization of 360Training by PWP Growth
- The majority recapitalization of Paytronix Systems by Great Hill Partners
- The majority recapitalization of MediaRadar from Frontier Capital
- The sale of On-Site to RealPage
- The majority recapitalization of SecureLink by Vista Equity Partners
- The minority recapitalization of Opus 2 by Rothschild Merchant Bank
- The majority recapitalization of Absorb Software by Silversmith Capital Partners
- The sale of Scenario Learning to Vector Solutions (Providence Equity)
- The sale of NaturalPoint to Planar Systems (Leyard)
- The sale of CompareCards to LendingTree
- The sale of Think Through Learning to Imagine Learning (Weld North)
- The sale of LawRoom to EverFi (NEA)
- The sale of NextAdvisor to Bankrate
- The sale of Imagine Easy to Chegg
- The sale of Bowman to Mediware (Thoma Bravo)
- The minority recapitalization of Cyara by PeakSpan
- The sale of Capterra to Gartner
- The sale of LawLogix to Hyland Software (Thoma Bravo)
- The sale of Software Advice to Gartner
- The majority recapitalization of RetailMeNot by Whale Shark Media
- The sale of ParentLink to Blackboard
- The sale of Tweak Software to Autodesk
- The sale of Eckim to Coupons.com
- The sale of Tech Bargains to Ziff Davis
- The minority recapitalization of OpinionLab by SSM Partners
- The majority recapitalization of GolfLogix by Emigrant Capital
- The majority recapitalization of LawLogix by PNC Riverarch Capital
- The sale of Axiom EPM to Kaufman Hall
- The sale of ISYS to Lexmark
- The sale of ServiceU to Active Network
- The minority recapitalization of One on One Marketing by Rockbridge Growth Equity
- The sale of QualitySmith to Reply!
- The sale of Deals2Buy to Austin Ventures
- The sale of dbc Smart Software to OpenLink
- The majority recapitalization of Internet Media to Kennet
- The sale of Trouve Media to Bankrate.com