PROMINENT ASSIGNMENTS
Counsel to Chrysler LLC in troubled supplier and bankruptcy matters.
Counsel to JP Chase Morgan Bank in bankruptcy and debtor/creditor affairs.
Counsel to the unsecured creditors committees in Windward Industries, Inc. (Micro Manufacturing), Caribbean Telephone & Telegraph, Inc., and D&C Industries, Inc.
Counsel to Magna International Inc. and its affiliates in troubled supplier and bankruptcy matters.
Local counsel to Bristol Myers Squibb in the Dow Corning bankruptcy.
Have represented numerous insurance companies in regard to workout, foreclosure and bankruptcy matters such as Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, Travelers Insurance Company, and Nationwide Life Insurance Company.
Counsel to numerous secured lenders, unsecured lenders, bankruptcy trustees, debtors, shareholders, and investor groups in all nature of bankruptcy, restructuring, and workout proceedings, including corporate and individual reorganization and liquidation proceedings.
Counsel to Johnson Controls, Inc., and its affiliates in troubled auto supplier matters.
Counsel to Visteon Corporation in troubled auto supplier and bankruptcy matters.
REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS
JPMorgan Chase Bank
Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation
Chrysler LLC
Johnson Controls, Inc., and its affiliates
Lear Corporation
Magna International Inc., and its affiliates
Visteon Corporation
AREAS OF PRACTICE EMPHASIS
Automotive
Bankruptcy
Commercial & Business Litigation
Real Estate
Troubled Supplier
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Martindale-Hubbell Rating: A/V
Life Member, The National Register of Who's Who
2004 BTI Client Service All-Star Team
Listed in Best Lawyers in America
Listed in Michigan Super Lawyers
PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT
Michigan Bar Association
Federal Bar Association for the Eastern District of Michigan
American Bankruptcy Institute
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Rotary International and Past President, Trenton Rotary Club
John McKay Scholarship Fund, Advisor
Tom Shumate Endowment Fund for the Arts, Board Member
Leadership Detroit Class XXVIII
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Strategies for Secured Creditors in Workouts and Foreclosures, 2004
Closing, Reorganizing or Selling the Business (ICLE), co-author, November 1993
EDUCATION
Michigan State University, B.A. 1986 (with honors)
American University's Washington College of Law, J.D. 1989 |