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Chambers just ranked ours as one of the country’s leading business law firms.

Awards aren’t everything in the legal profession. Still, when you have been selected as one of the country’s leading business law firms - as Dickinson Wright has - it tells you something. Especially when you consider that Chambers does such extensive research in every state to determine the best business lawyers in the country.

And when you consider that 11 of our lawyers achieved individual recognition in five featured practice areas, it just substantiates everything we have been known for since 1878 - credibility, creativity, depth of experience and intellectual firepower. Put our reputation to work for you and let us add value to your enterprise.

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Banking & Financial Services

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General Banking
  • Regulatory

  • Commercial and standby letters of credit

  • Capital markets transactions

  • Mergers and acquisitions

  • Shareholder relations and communications


  • Loans and Other Financing Transactions
  • Syndicated financings

  • International lending and other cross-border financings

  • Acquisition and recapitalization financings

  • Project and specialized collateral financings

  • Mezzanine financings

  • Asset-based loans

  • Loan participations and other intercreditor arrangements

  • ESOP Loans

  • Leveraged leasing

  • Purchases of and provision of credit enhancement for industrial development bonds

  • Provision of credit enhancement for the issuance of bonds and loans to regulated entities

  • Securitizations

  • Debtor-in-possession financings

  • Interest rate hedging transactions


  • Trusts
  • Corporate and personal trusts

  • Establishment and administration of common trust funds and other collective investment funds, mutual funds, and pension and employee benefit programs

  • Documentation of special corporate trust and escrow transactions


  • For more information, please contact:
    Edgar C. Howbert
    313-223-3517 or ehowbert@dickinsonwright.com

    In Central or Western Michigan, please contact:
    Daniel F. Gosch
    616-336-1015 or dgosch@dickinsonwright.com