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PROMINENT ASSIGNMENTS
Primary responsibility for coordination and supervision of all lending activities of NBD Bank (now part of JPMorgan Chase Bank).
Counsel to syndicate of 28 banks in providing construction financing of hotel and office buildings constituting Detroit Renaissance Center.
Counsel to nine institutional lenders in providing net lease financing for two additional office towers known as Detroit Renaissance Center, Phase II.
Counsel to FCA American Mortgage Corporation in providing mortgage loan financing for Stroh's River Place in the City of Detroit.
Counsel to Detroit Downtown Development Authority in connection with certain city development projects.
Counsel to NBD Bank, and Michigan counsel to Chrysler Corporation and Chrysler Credit Corporation in connection with several aspects of Chrysler Corporation's 1980 debt restructuring supported by an U.S. government guaranty.
Counsel to Citicorp North America and NBD Bank in connection with Mead Corporation's Michigan timberlands financing.
Counsel to several closely held corporations in connection with general corporate activities.
Florida counsel in connection with several corporate and financing projects.
REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS
Connecticut General Life Insurance Company
Environmental Research Institute of Michigan
Mackinac Savings Bank
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
NBD Bank, N.A.
Pacific Life Insurance Company
Walter Toebe Construction Company
AREAS OF PRACTICE EMPHASIS
Banking
Consumer Finance
Corporate Finance
General Corporate
Mergers & Acquisitions
Real Estate
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World
Listed in Best Lawyers in America, Banking and Real Estate during active Michigan practice
PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT
University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, Adjunct Professor, teaching a six-hour, two-semester course in commercial transactions, 1968-1972
Wayne State University Law School, Adjunct Professor, conducting a commercial law clinic, 1994-1996
American Law Institute, Life Member
American College of Real Estate Lawyers (elected 1986)
Michigan Bar Foundation, Fellow (elected 1984)
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Children's Home of Detroit, Board of Trustees 1975-1995, President 1986-1987, Honorary Trustee, 1996-present
Michigan Jobs Commission, Board of Directors 1994-1998
United Way, Community Leader Council 1994-199
Civic Searchlight, Inc., Board of Directors 1993-1995
Princeton Club of Michigan, 1956-1998, President 1972-1973
TED Center, Delray Beach, Florida, Board of Directors and Treasurer 2006-present
EDUCATION
Princeton University, A.B. 1956 (cum laude)
University of Michigan Law School, J.D. 1960 (with distinction)
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