Areas of Practice Emphasis

• Banking & Financial Services
• Corporate

Representative Clients

• JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.
• LaSalle Bank Midwest, N.A.
• National City Bank
• Huntington National Bank
• Fifth Third Bank

Prominent Assignments

• Lead counsel to agent bank in numerous multibank, syndicated credit facilities and cross-border financings
• Counsel to senior lenders, subordinated lenders and borrowers in public and private subordinated debt financings
• Extensive experience in asset based and other secured lending, including general asset based lending and oil and gas, aircraft and other specialized collateral transactions
• Counsel to agent bank and bank groups in numerous other commercial lending transactions, including restructurings and other refinancings, secured and unsecured credits, acquisition and spin off financings, international multiple borrower financings, general working capital facilities, start up and joint venture financings and construction lending
• Local counsel to numerous out of state lenders, corporations and borrowers with respect to Michigan transactions

Education

• J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 1984
• B.S.E.E. (magna cum laude), University of Michigan, 1981

Admitted to Practice

• Michigan, 1984
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, 1984

Professional and Community Involvement

• Member, State Bar of Michigan
• Member, Metropolitan Detroit Bar Association
• Director, Grosse Pointe Hockey Association

Publications and Presentations

• Institute of Continuing Legal Education, contributing author, "Lender vs. Creditors in a Difficult Economic Environment"

Acknowledgements

• Chambers USA, America's Leading Business Lawyers
  - Leading individual, Tier 1 ranking, banking and finance
• The Best Lawyers In America - Banking Law
• Michigan Super Lawyers 2006-2007

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