Education & Credentials
Education
John Carroll University
B.S., 2010University of Detroit Mercy School of Law
J.D., 2015- Magna Cum Laude
- University of Detroit Mercy Law Review, Executive Editor
- Dean’s Academic Scholarship Recipient
Bar Admission
Representative Clients
- JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.
- The Huntington National Bank
- Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
- Bank of America, N.A
- Fifth Third Bank
Prominent Assignments
Represented agents, lenders, and borrowers in a wide variety of financing transactions, including acquisition financing, working capital financing, and refinancing and restructuring facilities and with respect to asset-based, middle market, and corporate banking segments.
Represented agents, lenders, and borrowers in connection with workouts of troubled loan facilities, resulting in restructuring of existing facilities in some cases and payoffs or note purchase arrangements in other cases.
Represented sellers and purchasers in connection with corporate and real estate acquisitions and dispositions.
Represented multi-national companies in structuring U.S. entities and preparing organizational and corporate governance documents.
Professional Involvement
- State Bar of Michigan
Community Involvement
- Ss. Peter and Paul Warming Center
- H.E.L.P. Legal Aid Clinic
- Board Member, UNIFIED HIV Health and Beyond
Experience
- Plante Moran, PLLC, Senior Consultant
- Los Angeles Superior Court, Judicial Law Clerk
Publications/Presentations
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Author, Michigan Enacts New Qualified Dispositions in Trust Act, Michigan Bar Journal, March 2018, Volume 97, No. 3
- Author, Agree to Disagree: The Circuit Split on the Definition of "Arbitration", 92 U. DET. MERCY L. REV. 57 (2015)