Areas of Practice Emphasis

• Corporate
• Corporate Finance
• International
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Banking & Financial Services
• Securities
• Corporate Governance

Representative Clients

• AutoForm Engineering USA, Inc.
• Cargill Incorporated
• Dow Corning Corporation
• Ford Motor Company
• Groupo Cerutti, S.p.A./Bernal, Inc.
• OAO Severstal
• Carhartt, Inc.
• S Group Capital Management
• Sabo USA, Inc.
• Sand Products Corporation

Prominent Assignments

• 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 Ford Motor Company in refinancing of minority equity investment
• 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 Bank One as Agent in syndicated credit facilities for Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc., Hurco Companies, Inc., Casting Technology Company, A.M. Todd Company, and others
  
• Counsel to minority and majority investors in establishing minority business entities

Education

• J.D., Duke University School of Law, 1979
• B.A. (with honors), The College of Wooster, Ohio, 1976
• University of Manchester, England, 1974-1975

Admitted to Practice

• Michigan, 1985
• Ohio, 1979 (inactive status)
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, 1985
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, 1979

Professional and Community Involvement

• Business Law Section, State Bar of Michigan; Council Member, 2002-2007; Section Chair, 2006-2007
• Co-Chair, Corporate and Securities Committee, U.S. Law Firm Group
• Vice Chair, Member of the Board of Directors, Detroit Wine Organization
• Former Member of the Board of Directors, Gleaners Community Food Bank
• Former Chairman, Canadian Investment Committee, Detroit Regional Chamber
• Former member of the Alumni Board of Trustees, The College of Wooster

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

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

• Link to Best Lawyers in America 2008
• Link to Chambers
• Link to Michigan Super Lawyers 2007