Charles E. "Charlie" McCallum
- Of Counsel
- Managed the corporate, securities, and tax issues involved in combining five businesses with different ownership and represented for 35 years the resulting privately owned, multi-industry company (sales in excess of $300 million) headquartered on the Michigan lakeshore; in the course of that representation has handled the acquisition of a number of companies throughout the United States, as well as several dispositions and has assisted in the negotiation and structuring of transnational joint ventures, transnational mergers and acquisitions, and global distribution arrangements
- Represented the North American daughter companies of a large privately owned German multi-industry company (sales in excess of $300 million) for more than 30 years, andserved
- Managed the corporate, securities, and tax issues involved in combining five businesses with different ownership and represented for 35 years the resulting privately owned, multi-industry company (sales in excess of $300 million) headquartered on the Michigan lakeshore; in the course of that representation has handled the acquisition of a number of companies throughout the United States, as well as several dispositions and has assisted in the negotiation and structuring of transnational joint ventures, transnational mergers and acquisitions, and global distribution arrangements
- Represented the North American daughter companies of a large privately owned German multi-industry company (sales in excess of $300 million) for more than 30 years, andserved on the boards of directors of those U.S. subsidiaries
- Assisted a large German automotive products (both Tier1 and aftermarket) company with sales in excess of $300 million in the restructuring of its North American operations, and for more than 10 years counseled the German owner of the group as well as the group’s North American daughter companies
- Represented the shareholders of companies in industries as diverse as publishing, direct marketing, food processing, agricultural equipment manufacturing and industrial machinery manufacturing in negotiating and completing the sales of their businesses in a variety of transactions
- Assisted clients in making acquisitions and mergers, including joint ventures, both within and outside the United States, in a number of industries including automotive products, printing equipment, furniture products, and industrial conveyor equipment
- Assisted a large Japanese company to establish its first North American manufacturing operation
- Assisted a very large (sales in excess of $2 billion) privately owned global manufacturing and sales company in implementing a structured plan for succession of ownership, governance, and management
- The Ethical Considerations in Third Party Opinion Practice – Withdrawal from an Opinion Engagement and Disaffirmance of a Previously Issued Opinion, co-authored with Bruce C. Young, The Business Lawyer, May 2014
- Professionalism in the Practice of Law, written in April 2009 and published on the website of the International Bar Association
- The Ethical Considerations in Third Party Opinion Practice – Withdrawal from an Opinion Engagement and Disaffirmance of a Previously Issued Opinion, co-authored with Bruce C. Young, The Business Lawyer, May 2014
- Professionalism in the Practice of Law, written in April 2009 and published on the website of the International Bar Association
- Globetrotting Lawyers, published in 2009 as program materials for an ABA Business Law Section CLE program on the topic so named
- Ethics Issues in Opinion Practice, The Business Lawyer, co-authored with Bruce C. Young, 2/1/2007
- Why Worry About Professionalism Anyway? What Can We Do About It?, text of a speech delivered to a Wisconsin Bar Association group in February 2007
- Aspects of Leadership, first published in 2007 and, with minor editorial changes, every year thereafter as the inside back cover of the ABA Business Law Section’s annual Leadership Directory
- Thoughts on the Information Age, published in January 2002 in Law Technology News
- Five Steps to Success in the U.S. Market,translated and published in Germany in 2000
