PROMINENT ASSIGNMENTS

Counsel to various issuers in connection with their initial and secondary public offerings.

Counsel to numerous issuers in connection with their domestic and offshore private equity and debt placements.

Counsel to various publicly-traded and closely-held parties in connection with their mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, divestitures, spinoffs, and recapitalizations.

Counsel to multiple borrowers in connection with their senior debt, mezzanine debt, venture capital, and MESBIC financings.

Counsel to several management groups in connection with their leveraged buyout transactions.

Counsel to borrowers in connection with their asset securitization, sale-leaseback, and off-balance sheet equipment leasing transactions.

Counsel to numerous corporate and partnership clients in a general counsel capacity, including corporate governance, employment, licensing, commercial contracting, antitrust, and regulatory matters.

Counsel to various parties in connection with their domestic and international joint ventures and strategic alliances.

Counsel to registered broker-dealers and investment advisors and sponsors of private equity funds, derivative securities, and foreign currency option products.

REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS

• Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd.
• American Dealer Enterprise Group, LLC
• Clear!Blue Holdings
• Continental Capital Realty
• H.E.L.P. Financial Corporation
• HMA Capital Partners
• Huron Valley Physicians Association
• Longstock, LLC
• MRM Incorporated
• V.I.O., Inc.

AREAS OF PRACTICE EMPHASIS

• Corporate
• Corporate Finance
• Corporate Governance
• Emerging Business
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Private Equity
• Securities

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

• Listed in Michigan Super Lawyers 2009

PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT

• Michigan, Colorado, and District of Columbia Bar Associations
• Association for Corporate Growth
• Adjunct Professor of Law, Wayne State University Law School, 1992-2000

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

• Author, "Raising Private Capital for Early Stage Businesses: Online Offerings, Angel Networks and Matching Services," Washtenaw County Legal News, August 11, 2005
• Author, "Validity Challenges to SEC Rule 14e-3," The John Marshall Law Review, Vol. 23:3, 1990
• Author, "Expanding Antifraud Protection: The Pledge of Stock under Sections 17(a) and 10(b) of the Securities Acts," The John Marshall Law Review, Vol. 15:2, 1982
• Author of articles for OTC Stock Journal, Corporate Detroit, and The Entrepreneur Network, 1991-1997
• Featured speaker, several local network and syndicated business television programs
• Panelist/moderator, various emerging business roundtables, ICLE and other commercial seminars

EDUCATION

DePaul University, B.A. 1977 (with honors)

DePaul University, M.S.A. 1979 (with honors)

John Marshall Law School, J.D. 1983 (Law Review)

Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M. 1990