Areas of Practice Emphasis

• Corporate
• Taxation

Prominent Assignments

• General corporate counsel to a variety of clients focused primarily on privately held businesses with annual sales in excess of $50 million
• Regularly directs acquisitions, restructurings, joint ventures and other transactions where financial, tax and general business insight and counsel are required

Education

• Certified Public Accountant, California, 1975
• J.D. (cum laude), University of Michigan Law School, 1973
  - Editor, Michigan Law Review, 1974-1975
• B.S. in Accounting (magna cum laude), Indiana University, 1971
  - William A. Rawles Key
  - Selected the Accounting Honor Student, 1971

Admitted to Practice

• Michigan, 1975

Professional and Community Involvement

• Secretary, Goodwill Industries Grand Rapids
• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• American Association of Attorney-Certified Public Accountants
• Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants
• American Bar Association
• Michigan State Bar (former member of the Taxation Council)
• Grand Rapids Bar Association (former Treasurer)
• Leadership Grand Rapids
• Economic Club of Grand Rapids
• Former adjunct faculty in taxation, Grand Valley State University Seidman Graduate School of Business

Acknowledgements

• West Michigan's Best Lawyer, Grand Rapids Magazine, 2006
• West Michigan Legal Professional of the Year, 2006
• Listed in Best Lawyers in America, 1995-2005
• Martindale Hubbell AV peer review rated

• Link to Best Lawyers in America 2008