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Counsel to buyers and sellers in mergers or acquisitions in the high tech, manufacturing, retail, food service, real estate, automotive, defense, and natural resource industries
General counsel to small and medium-sized closely-held corporations
Counsel to domestic offices of Canadian and other foreign businesses (English, Swiss, Brazilian, Russian, Italian, South African, Taiwanese) in automotive and other industries
Counsel to Johnson Controls, Inc. in organizing joint venture with subordinated lenders to acquire interior business of Plastech Engineered Products from bankruptcy.
Counsel to Cypriot affiliate of Russian investment group in private equity investments in high tech companies.
Counsel to U.S. affiliate of Quebec manufacturing company in stock and asset purchase transactions.
Counsel to manufacturer of polycrystalline silicon for solar cells in connection with tax-advantaged financing for facility expansion.
Counsel to investment entity in purchase, financing, and ultimate sale of Great Lakes freighters.
Counsel to Kmart Corporation in its sale of operations in the Czech Republic and Slovakia to a buyer based in the United Kingdom.
Counsel to Ford Motor Company in refinancing minority equity investment.
Counsel to minority and majority investors in establishing minority business entities.
REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS
AutoForm Engineering USA, Inc.
Carhartt, Inc.
Dow Corning Corporation
Ducker Worldwide, LLC
Groupo Cerutti, S.p.A./Bernal, Inc.
OAO Severstal
S Group Capital Management
Sabo USA, Inc.
Sand Products Corporation
AREAS OF PRACTICE EMPHASIS
Clean/Green Technology
Corporate
Corporate Finance
Corporate Governance
International
Joint Ventures
Mergers & Acquisitions
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Chambers and Partners USA; Selected for inclusion as top ranked Corporate/M&A lawyer in Michigan
Listed in Best Lawyers in America
Listed in Michigan Super Lawyers
Martindale Hubbell AV peer review rated for ethical standards and legal ability
PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT
State Bar of Michigan, Business Law Section; Council Member, 2002-2007; Section Chair, 2006-2007
U.S. Law Firm Group, Co-Chair, Corporate and Securities Committee
Institute of Continuing Legal Education (ICLE), Member, Business Law Advisory Board
Detroit Regional Chamber, Former Chair, Canadian Investment Committee
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Detroit Wine Organization, Chair (2008), Member of the Board of Directors
Gleaners Community Food Bank, Former Member of the Board of Directors
The College of Wooster, Former member of the Alumni Board of Trustees
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
"Disney Directors Survive Attack on Magic Kingdom," Volume 15 Business Law Today, American Bar Association, No. 3 (Jan./Feb. 2006)
"Due Diligence Issues for Environmental Counsel: Acquisitions After Sarbanes-Oxley," Volume 84, Michigan Bar Journal No. 11 (Nov. 2005)
"Looking Under the Rocks: Due Diligence After Sarbanes Oxley," Volume 15 Business Law Today, American Bar Association, No. 1 (Sept./Oct. 2005)
Speaker at numerous ICLE and State Bar Section seminars
"The Many Faces of Corporate Governance", Michigan Business Law Journal, Vol 28, Issue 3 (Fall 2008)
Acknowledgements
Best Lawyers in America, Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, 2007-2008
Fourth Annual Chambers USA; A Guide to America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Mergers & Acquisitions, 2007-2008
Michigan Super Lawyers, Business/Corporate, 2007
EDUCATION
University of Manchester, England, 1974-1975
The College of Wooster, Ohio, B.A. 1976, (with honors)
Duke University School of Law, J.D. 1979
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