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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.
REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS
JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.
LaSalle Bank Midwest, N.A.
National City Bank
Huntington National Bank
Fifth Third Bank
AREAS OF PRACTICE EMPHASIS
Banking & Financial Services
Corporate
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Chambers USA, America's Leading Business Lawyers; Leading individual, Tier 1 ranking, banking and finance
Best Lawyers in America - Banking Law
Michigan Super Lawyers 2006-2007
PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT
State Bar of Michigan
Metropolitan Detroit Bar Association
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Grosse Pointe Hockey Association, Director
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Institute of Continuing Legal Education, contributing author, "Lender vs. Creditors in a Difficult Economic Environment"
EDUCATION
University of Michigan, B.S.E.E. 1981 (magna cum laude)
University of Michigan Law School, J.D. 1984 | 