Mark R. High

Member

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 in transactions valued between $5 million and $150 million.

General counsel to small and medium-sized closely-held entities.

Counsel to domestic branches 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 $400 million joint venture with subordinated lenders to acquire interior business of Plastech Engineered Products from bankruptcy, and administering company through lender buy-out.

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 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 closely-held entities in formation, succession planning, and business divorce situations.

General counsel to various non-profit entities.

Counsel to Boards of Directors and special committees on compliance issues.

Counsel to minority and majority investors in establishing minority business entities.

REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS

A.J. Boggs & Company

AutoForm Engineering USA, Inc.

Carhartt, Inc.

Camryn Industries, LLC

DMS Moving Systems, Inc.

Ducker Worldwide, LLC

Gibbs Machinery Company, Inc.

Gleaners Community Food Bank

Groupo Cerutti, S.p.A./Bernal, Inc.

Johnson Controls, Inc.

Piston Automotive, LLC

Quantum Graphics, Inc.

S Group Capital Management

Sabo USA, Inc.

Sand Products Corporation

PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT

State Bar of Michigan, Business Law Section; Council Member, 2002-2007; Section Chair, 2006-2007
American Bar Association, Section on Business Law, Member of Model Shareholder Agreement Task Force
U.S. Law Firm Group, Co-Chair, Corporate and Securities Committee
Institute of Continuing Legal Education (ICLE), Member, Business Law Advisory Board
Chair, Canada-U.S. Business Association, Detroit/Windsor Chapter
Chair, Carhartt Client Service Team
Detroit Regional Chamber, Former Chair, Canadian Investment Committee

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Detroit Wine Organization, Chair (2008), Member of the Board of Directors
Community Legal Resources, Member of Nonprofit Survival Task Force
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

"Drafting Buy-Sell Provisions in Shareholder Agreements: Can We 'Insure' Compliance?" Volume 19, Business Law Today, American Bar Association, No. 5 (May/June 2010)
Co-Author, “International Sales”, Newsletter of the International Bar Association Legal Practice Division, September 2009, Number 27
“The Many Faces of Corporate Governance”, Michigan Business Law Journal, Vol 28, Issue 3 (Fall 2008)
“Disney Directors Survive Attack on Magic Kingdom,” Business Law Today, American Bar Association, Volume 15, 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,” Business Law Today, American Bar Association, Volume 15, No 1 (Sept./Oct. 2005)
Speaker at numerous national, ICLE, and State Bar Section seminars and webinars