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PROMINENT ASSIGNMENTS
General corporate counsel to a variety of clients focused primarily on privately held businesses.
Regularly directs acquisitions, restructurings, joint ventures and other transactions where financial, tax and general business insight and counsel are required
AREAS OF PRACTICE EMPHASIS
Corporate
Taxation
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Best Lawyers in America, 1995-2009
Martindale Hubbell AV peer review rated
West Michigan's Best Lawyers, Grand Rapids Magazine
West Michigan Legal Professional of the Year, 2006
PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants
Leadership Grand Rapids
Economic Club of Grand Rapids
ACG (Association for Corporate Growth Western Michigan)
American Bar Association; Michigan State Bar (former member of the Taxation Council); Grand Rapids Bar Association (former Treasurer)
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Goodwill Industries Grand Rapids, Chairman
Grand Valley State University Seidman Graduate School of Business, Former adjunct faculty in taxation
EDUCATION
Indiana University, B.S 1971 (magna cum laude)
William A. Rawles Key
Selected the Accounting Honor Student
University of Michigan Law School, J.D. 1975 (cum laude)
Michigan Law Review
Certified Public Accountant, California, Michigan | 