PRACTICE AREAS

• Counsels corporations and other business entities in a variety of business-related transactions including acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, recapitalizations, reorganizations, venture capital and related debt financings, and equity transactions.
• Serves as bond counsel, borrower`s counsel, underwriter`s counsel, and disclosure counsel in taxable and tax-exempt bond and note issues for public and private issuers.
• Admitted to practice before the Indiana state courts, United States District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT

• Member, Allen County Bar Association
• Member, Indiana State Bar Associations
• Member, American Bar Association (Business Section)
• Member, National Association of Bond Lawyers

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

• Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees, University of Saint Francis (Member, Committee on Trustees; and Member, Finance and Investment Committee)
• Board of Directors, Turnstone Center for Disabled Children & Adults, Inc. (Chair, Governance Committee, Past Board Chair 1995-1998)
• Past member of the Allen County Solid Waste Citizens Advisory Committee, Chair (1991-1996)
• Past Member of the Bishop Luers High School Board of Education (President, 1996 1998, and 1999)
• Past member of Allen County Local Emergency Planning Committee (1989-1998)

EDUCATION AND HONORS

• Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana (J.D., cum laude, 1973)
  • Note Editor, Indiana Law Journal
• Northwestern University (B.S., Industrial Engineering, 1970)