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PROMINENT ASSIGNMENTS
Served as bond counsel for over 1,000 tax-exempt bond issues for both public, private and non-profit projects.
Served as bond counsel for the City of Grand Rapids for 2 bond issues totaling $126 million to construct a new 35-mile water main from Lake Michigan to Grand Rapids.
Served as bond counsel for Metropolitan Hospital for $135 million issue to relocate its entire campus.
Served as bond counsel for five bond issues totaling $330 million for the Van Andel Research Institute.
Served as bond counsel for the City of Grand Rapids for 13 bond issues totaling $336 million used to eliminate combined sanitary sewer overflows.
Served as bond counsel for a $55 million issue to construct the Van Andel Arena.
Served as bond counsel for 2 bond issues totaling $84 million for construction of the DeVos Place convention center.
Serve as City Attorney for Hudsonville, Lowell and Rockford and special counsel to numerous other municipalities.
Negotiated the sale of a municipally-owned cable television system to a private purchaser.
Negotiated multi-party municipal water and sanitary sewer wholesale and retail agreements.
Negotiated on behalf of municipalities and private entities numerous public/private development economic development incentive agreements, including the J. W. Marriott, Hemlock Semiconductor and Gallery on Fulton projects.
REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS
R. W. Baird & Co.
Chase Bank
Downtown Development Authority of the City of Grand Rapids
City of Grand Rapids
Grand Rapids-Kent County Convention/Arena Authority
Grand Rapids SmartZone Tax Increment Finance Authority
Grand Valley Regional Biosolids Authority
Kent County
City of Lowell
Van Andel Research Institute
AREAS OF PRACTICE EMPHASIS
Banking & Financial Services
Corporate Finance
Municipal Law & Finance
Real Estate
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Listed in Best Lawyers of America 2007 and 2008
Listed in Michigan Super Lawyers, 2008
Life Member of National Registry of Who�s Who
PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT
Grand Rapids Bar Association
National Association of Bond Lawyers
State Bar of Michigan (Taxation and Public Corporations Section)
Michigan Municipal Attorneys Association
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Mary Free Bed Hospital and Rehabilitation Center Orthotics and Prosthetics Board
Disability Advocates of Kent County Board
EDUCATION
Northern Michigan University, B.A. (magna cum laude)
Wayne State University Law School, J.D. | 