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SEC and Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance, including the preparation and review of registration statements, proxy statements for mergers and annual meetings, tender offers, and SEC annual and quarterly reports
Counsel to companies on going private transactions and associated issues
Counsel to various parties in numerous mergers or acquisitions in the banking, real estate, automotive, and manufacturing industries
Counsel to issuers or underwriters in voluminous registered public offerings
Counsel to a bank in its initial organization and capitalization, the organization of its bank holding company, and public offerings
Counsel to both issuers and target companies in tender offer transactions
Serve as general counsel to various corporations
REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS
Borders Group, Inc.
Carhartt, Inc. - Director and Corporate Secretary
Dearborn Bancorp, Inc.
Family Foundations and Trustee of numerous Trusts
King Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Nuveen Bond Funds
R & R Radio Corporation
AREAS OF PRACTICE EMPHASIS
Corporate
Corporate Finance
Corporate Governance
Mergers & Acquisitions
Securities
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Listed in Best Lawyers in America
Listed in Michigan Super Lawyers
PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT
State Bar of Michigan, Past Chairman, Business Law Section
Attorney Discipline Board, Chairman of Panel
National Association of Securities Dealers, Arbitrator
2007 Recipient of Schulman Outstanding Business Lawyer Award
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Grosse Pointe Farms Foundation, Trustee
Boys & Girls of Metro Detroit, Former Trustee
Business Education/Alliance Detroit Chamber of Commerce, Former Officer and Director
EDUCATION
Michigan State University and Denison University, B.A. 1955
University of Virginia, LL.B 1958.
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