Practice Areas
Counsel to buyers and sellers in mergers or acquisitions in tech, manufacturing, retail, real estate, automotive/mobility, and natural resources industries; counsel to domestic operations of foreign businesses, including Canada-U.S. cross-border entities; experienced in corporate governance and shareholder dispute issues.
Professional Memberships
President, Canada-US Business Association (2011-2023); State Bar of Michigan, Chair, Business Law Section (2006-2007); Member, International Law Section, State Bar of Michigan.
Publications
Author, "Court Moves Leave CTA Enforcement Up in the Air," Corporate Compliance Insights, March 2024; Author, “FinCEN Appeals Order Enjoining Corporate Transparency Act,” Dickinson Wright Client Alert, March 2024; Co-Author, “Nonprofit Organizations and the Corporate Transparency Act,” Dickinson Wright Client Alert, March 2024; Co-Author, “Important Notice Impacting Millions of Business Entities (A Summary of the Corporate Transparency Act),” Dickinson Wright Client Alert, December 2023; Author, “Corporate Transparency Act Compliance Date Is Approaching Quickly,” Dickinson Wright Client Alert, July 2023; Author, “M&A Practices in a Post-COVID-19 World,” Dickinson Wright Client Alert, March 2020; Author, "Summary of Automotive Provisions of USMCA," Dickinson Wright Client Alert, October 2019; Co-Author, “Michigan Corporate Law Summary,” Practical Law Company, Inc. (July 2012, update 2015, 2019); Co-Author, “Inside the FTC-DOJ Annual Report,” Competition, M&A and Public Policy Law360, published August 21, 2012; “Drafting Buy-Sell Provisions in Shareholder Agreements: Can We ‘Insure’ Compliance,” Volume 19, Business Law Today, American Bar Association, No. 5 (May/June 2010); “Disney Directors Survive Attack on Magic Kingdom,” Business Law Today; “Looking Under the Rocks: Due Diligence After Sarbanes-Oxley,” Business Law Today.
Awards
“Recommended Lawyer”
The Legal 500 United States, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022
"Lawyer of the Year," Corporate Governance Law
Best Lawyers in America®, 2019, 2021, 2024
Business and Corporate Law
Michigan Super Lawyers®, 2006-2014, 2016-2023
AV Peer Review Rating
Martindale-Hubbell®
“Top Lawyers”, International Trade and Finance Law
DBusiness, 2020-2023
Steven H. Schulman Outstanding Business Lawyer Award
State Bar of Michigan Business Law Section
2022
Corporate Governance Law and Corporate Law
Best Lawyers in America®, 2007-2024