PRACTICE AREAS

• Counsels corporations and other business entities in a variety of business-related transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and related financings
• Counsels corporations and other business entities as to the tax consequences of various transactions
• Admitted to practice before the Indiana state courts and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

REPRESENTATIVE TRANSACTIONS

• Represented management in leveraged buyout of plastics automotive and truck supplier
• Buyer`s counsel inasset purchase of all operating assets of a steel mini-mill
• Buyer`s counsel in purchase of all operating assets of a steel processing plant.
• Represented landlord and investor in connection with large purchase of assets of business out of bankruptcy

PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT

• Martindale-Hubbell`s top "AV® Preeminent TM" Peer Review Rating*
• Numerous seminars presented for Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum
• Author and speaker, Fort Wayne Estate Planning Council
• Speaker, "How to Start a Business" Course, Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne
• Speaker, "How to Start a Business" Course, Tri-State College
• Numerous seminars presented at Greater Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce
• Speaker, "How to Start a Successful Business," Entrepreneur`s Alliance of Northeast Indiana
• Bar Activities:
  • Member, Allen County Bar Association
  • Member, Indiana State Bar Association
  • Member, American Bar Association

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

• Past member of Board of Directors, Entrepreneur`s Alliance of Northeast Indiana
• Past member of Board of Directors, Boys & Girls Club
• Past member of Board of Directors, Leadership Fort Wayne
• Volunteer, United Way

EDUCATION AND HONORS

• Indiana University School of Law (J.D., 1978)
• Indiana University (A.B., Political Science, 1975)

* AV® Preeminent ™ is a certification mark of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies.