Jerome B. Greenbaum has delivered expert legal advice to businesses throughout the region for over 40 years. He possesses a great deal of experience in the formation of all types of business entities, maintaining their structure and counseling their principals in issues such as employment relations, shareholder disputes, debtor/creditor problems and the acquisition, leasing, financing and disposition of real and personal assets. Mr. Greenbaum also provides skillful assistance in the preparation of agreements associated with these issues. He has lectured on alternatives to bankruptcy at the convention of the Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants.

In addition to his practice in business law, Mr. Greenbaum is a successful trial lawyer specializing in the litigation of issues concerning commercial, real estate, construction, and corporate matters. Mr. Greenbaum has taken basic and advanced courses in Alternative Dispute Resolution, and has utilized his training for clients in the early resolution of disputes, in the interest of substantially shortening or avoiding the litigation process, resulting in the saving of time and money for firm clients. In addition, he has acted on many occasions as an independent third party mediator for other parties and their counsel, to facilitate the resolution of their disputes.

Mr. Greenbaum is admitted to practice in the Supreme Courts of Michigan and the United States, as well as subordinate State and Federal Courts. He is also a former Assistant United States Attorney.

Mr. Greenbaum was honored by DBusiness magazine, which named him as one of the top 100 attorneys in the Metropolitan Detroit area in the practice areas of Litigation and Corporation Law.

Jerome B. Greenbaum has succeeded in a variety of cases involving the following types of clients:

• A custom builder on claims against co-founder of publicly listed corporation in 13-month arbitration proceedings
• A client against his partner in a real estate venture for misappropriation of partnership assets
• Over 30 second and third-generation owners throughout U.S. and Canada owning fractional interests in real estate purchased over 60 years ago requiring new and supplemental probate of estates to acquire marketable title for sale of parcel
• A former East-German national against government of Germany for reparations for real estate confiscated by National Socialist and Communist regimes
• A client on claims of misappropriation of trade secrets
• Unlawful firing of president of an international corporation
• A global company against charges by U.S. Department of Treasury for violation of Iranian Transactions Regulations
• A client involved in contested conservatorship and guardianship proceedings in three states
• Clients in break-up of professional corporation involving protection of qualified benefits
• A luxury condominium association
• A custom builder in construction lien proceedings
• Obtained reinstatement of client to church membership after unlawful expulsion
• Many local and regional insolvent businesses in shedding liabilities, allowing them to seamlessly continue in business without involvement in bankruptcy or other court proceedings