A corporate partner in Miller Canfield's Ann Arbor and New York offices, Jeff concentrates primarily on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and other corporate and securities laws matters.

Jeff has represented public and private clients in a variety of U.S. and international transactions including negotiated acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, auctions, carve-out transactions, strategic investments, reorganizations, joint ventures and other corporate matters including representation of:

• Carl Zeiss Meditec in the nine-figure acquisition of micro-interventional cataract surgery technology solutions provider lanTECH, Inc.

• Simon Property Group, Inc., in connection with its pending $9.5 billion USD acquisition of Taubman Centers, a real estate investment trust, and acquisition of an 80% stake in Taubman Realty Group

• Carl Zeiss Meditec in eight-figure sale of hydrophilic intraocular lens manufacturing division spin-out and sale to Shanghai Haohai Biological Technology Co., Ltd.   

• Siris Capital Group, LLC and Digital River, Inc. in the eight-figure sale of Blue Hornet Networks, Inc. to Marlin Equity Partners

• Second City Capital Partners II, LP, on nine-figure spin-out and "roll up" of more than 20 companies holding 16 office properties consisting of 1.85 million sq. ft. of rentable space in five states, and the initial public offering of City Office REIT, Inc.'s common stock

• WorkForce Software, LLC on the nine-figure majority investment by New York-based Insight Venture Partners

• Certent, Inc., the world's largest SaaS stock plan software provider to both public and private companies, in its acquisitions of (i) DisclosureNet, Inc., Canada's recognized leader in SaaS solutions that improve the quality of external and internal reporting, comparison and analysis software (ii) Rivet Software, Inc., the third-largest (by filings) public company financial filings and XBRL tagging service provider in the US in stock acquisition and (iii) OptionAdmin, Inc. a recognized leader in the field of corporate equity management in an asset acquisition

• Compu-Quote, Inc., Canada's largest insurance rating and broker services company, in a nine-figure stock and asset sale to Applied Systems, Inc., a Bain Capital portfolio company

• The Detroit Regional Convention Facility Authority in its acquisition of Cobo Center from the City of Detroit

• NCAA in its acquisition of the NIT Tournament