DETROIT OFFICE
Mr. Lewand represents corporations in a variety of general business transactions. He also works with a number of municipalities as bond counsel. A representative transaction has been the issuance of $270 million in bonds in ten series for 13 Downriver communities and Wayne County under court supervision over a five-year period.
Mr. Lewand has negotiated numerous public private partnerships between corporations and municipalities including a transaction among the Detroit Lions, Wayne County and the City of Detroit for construction of a new $400 million stadium. Mr. Lewand served as the Governor’s facilitator in restructuring the governance at Detroit Medical Center providing for an infusion of $50 million in capital which allowed new, strong management to return DMC to profitability. Subsequently, Mr. Lewand has represented DMC in negotiations with Wayne State University School of Medicine in reaching an agreement in November 2006 for approximately $75 million in payments. Mr. Lewand is also negotiating other major ventures on behalf of DMC.
Mr. Lewand serves as Special Master to United States District Court Judge John Feikens on water and sewer matters for southeast Michigan involving analysis of legal and financial issues on three federal lawsuits and a voluntary consortium of all municipalities in Southeast Michigan.
Before joining the Firm, Mr. Lewand clerked for the Honorable George Edwards of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He was Chief of Staff to Michigan Governor James J. Blanchard (1983) and Chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party (1989-1990).
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