PROMINENT ASSIGNMENTS

Bond counsel to Michigan Public Power Agency, various municipal electric utilities and independent power producers; financed large electric generating stations, transmission and associated facilities.

Bond counsel to the Michigan State Building Authority; financed state office and university and community college facilities; developed the first commercial paper programs in the State.

Bond counsel to the Michigan Tobacco Settlement Finance Authority involving tobacco securitizations.

General counsel to Michigan Public Power Agency and Michigan Municipal Electric Association.

Bond counsel to McLaren Obligated Group, Henry Ford Health System and Botsford Obligated Group, among others; health care facility financings and refundings.

Bond counsel to Michigan Strategic Fund involving cogeneration and solid waste financings.

Argued before the Supreme Court in favor of the constitutionality of new TIFA legislation.

Amicus curiae briefs in appellate courts on financing issues.

Counsel to cogeneration clients in one of the largest consolidated cases before the Michigan Public Service Commission.

Underwriter's counsel to Goldman Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., and Merrill Lynch & Co. and other national and regional underwriters.

REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS

• Michigan Municipal Electric Association
• Michigan Public Power Agency (and various members)
• Michigan State Hospital Finance Authority
• Michigan Tobacco Settlement Finance Agency
• State of Michigan
• State Building Authority
• Goldman Sachs & Co.
• JP Morgan Securities
• Merrill Lynch & Co.
• City of Lansing (EDC, TIFA, Brownfield, utility)
• Michigan Municipal League

AREAS OF PRACTICE EMPHASIS

• Energy & Sustainability
• Municipal Law & Finance
• Regulatory & Administrative Law

PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT

• State Bar of Michigan, Member (Public Corporation Law, Real Property Law, and Health Care Law Sections; Former Chairperson of the Public Corporation Law Section Council)
• Ingham County Bar Association, Member
• Member of the Hall of Justice Committee of the State Bar, by appointment of the State Bar President
• National Association of Bond Lawyers, Member
• Former editor and contributor to the Public Corporation Law Quarterly

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

• Appointed by the Governor to the Council on Labor and Economic Growth

EXPERIENCE

• Extern to Justice Marc Poche, California Court of Appeals, First District, Division Four, 1980

EDUCATION

University of Michigan, A.B. 1977 (with high distinction)

University of California, Hastings College of the Law, J.D. 1980

• Review Editor, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, 1979-1980