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Law firm of Axe & Ecklund, P.C. |
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About Axe & Ecklund |
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Axe & Ecklund, P.C. (Axe & Ecklund) is a leader among firms providing bond counsel services to public entities in the state of Michigan.
Our firm is the successor firm to Axe and Schwartz, which was founded in 1981 by John R. Axe and several other partners then at the firm of Dickinson, Wright, McKean & Cudlip. Mr. Axe merged that firm, with its considerable municipal finance practice, into Dykema Gossett in 1985, where he served as head of its newly established Public Finance Department. The current firm was formed on January 1, 1990, by Mr. Axe and another attorney, and includes all of the staff which worked on his public finance matters while at Dykema Gossett.
As indicated above, nearly all of Dykema Gossett's public finance work as bond counsel (as contrasted with underwriter's counsel) between 1985 and 1990 was as a result of Mr. Axe serving as a partner of that firm. During that time, Mr. Axe was the partner in charge of these clients, all of whom he had formerly represented at Axe & Schwartz.
Since 1990, Axe & Ecklund, P.C. and its predecessor John R. Axe and Associates has been advising cities, counties, villages, townships authorities and other governmental units on the best way to issue municipal bonds and notes. *
Included in our services are the development of individual ways for a municipal client to market its bonds, notes, and other debt and revenue obligations.
The firm principally assists government units in raising funds by structuring the borrowings, preparing all legal documents, conducting a competitive sale, and providing its opinion on the validity and tax exemption of the bond issue.
In the past 31 years, our senior attorney, John R. Axe, has successfully issued bond opinions on more than 1,814 issues of municipal obligations of all types for more than 130 different issuers in a total face amount in excess of $13,900,000,000. This volume of issues over that period of time is more than twice as large as for any other individual bond lawyer in Michigan.
* The firm name was John R. Axe and Associates, P.C. until January 1, 2001 when it was changed to Axe & Ecklund, P.C. |
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Axe & Ecklund, P.C. |
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21 Kercheval Avenue Suite 355 Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236 |