Corporate Law

Practice Areas: Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions, Contracts, Real Estate, Healthcare Transactional, ERISA, Estate Planning, Employment

Education: B.G.S. University of Michigan, 1975, J.D., University of Michigan, 1978, M.B.A. University of Michigan, 1983

Ken Frantz is a founding Member of the firm. His extensive background and years of legal and business experience enable him to practice in a wide range of corporate and business areas, including specializations in the technically demanding areas of ERISA and Healthcare law.

He has several years of sophisticated legal and business experience in the establishment, termination and operational needs of corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships and joint ventures. This experience includes contract drafting, negotiation and review on a broad range of legal and business issues.

A significant portion of Mr. Frantz's corporate experience includes mergers and acquisitions. He has worked extensively with both asset and stock transactions, and with for-profit and non-profit organizations.

He also has experience with complex real estate transactions, including drafting and negotiating purchase agreements, deeds, leases, mortgages and land contracts. This background includes both stand-alone transactions as well as larger business deals.

His healthcare law practice is focused upon transactional matters, including those areas of fraud and abuse, private inurement and tax exempt issues affecting such transactions. Representative clients are primarily hospitals, clinics and other non-profit organizations. However, he also represents physicians in employment contract matters.

Mr. Frantz is also experienced in the very technical field of ERISA, and the full range of employee benefits. This includes drafting and designing retirement and welfare benefit plans, nonqualified and executive deferred compensation arrangements, stock option plans and trusts, as well as negotiations with the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Labor.

As a compliment to his employee benefits practice, Mr. Frantz also has significant experience with EEOC, COBRA, FMLA, ADA and similar workplace regulations.

He is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, and the State Bar of Texas (Inactive), and was a member of the Michigan State Bar Committee on Character and Fitness from 1998 to 2004. He is the author of several professional articles.