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Representative Bio

Michael B. Shapiro counsels corporate clients and business owners in state and local taxation matters, with particular experience in ad valorem taxation, including counseling, tax planning, trial and appellate representation. He guides clients' mergers, diversification's, investments, acquisitions and restructuring with expertise derived from more than forty years as tax counsel to businesses, corporations and professional partnerships.

Michael B. Shapiro represents also both commercial and industrial clients in achieving millions of dollars of property tax savings in Michigan and outside the state. He is listed in both Best Lawyers in America and Who's Who in America.

He also is a frequent lecturer on property tax assessment matters, having delivered lectures on this subject for the National Conference for State Tax Judges, Georgetown University Law Center's Institute on State and Local Taxation, the Annual Conference of the Institute of Property Taxation, Institute of Continuing Legal Education, the Michigan State Bar Association Real Estate Section, National Association of Accountants, Michigan State Chamber of Commerce, the Detroit Bar Association, The Michigan Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and other professional organizations.

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Stewart Mandell's practice focuses on appropriately reducing taxes through tax planning, tax appeals, tax incentive awards, and the passage of favorable State tax legislation. Such efforts have saved taxpayers several hundreds of millions of dollars and include property tax appeals for landmarks such as the Renaissance Center and the Alma oil refinery, significant state tax appeal victories for IBM and C & O Railroad, and substantial tax incentive awards for Pfizer and Nissan.

Mr. Mandell handled significant property and state tax cases that resulted in favorable decisions from the Michigan Tax Tribunal, Michigan Court of Claims, Michigan Court of Appeals and Michigan Supreme Court.

He also successfully represented taxpayers in a broad variety of property tax matters involving industrial, commercial and residential properties including several of Michigan's most renowned landmarks. Obtained approvals for state and local tax incentive packages of over 30 million, including the State's largest non-automotive incentive award.

He also achieved passage of Single Business Tax legislation that will save taxpayers over $25 million of taxes and successfully handled federal and state tax planning and controversy matters for 501(c)(3) and (c)(6) organizations.

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Firm Information

Honigman is a leading business law firm based in Michigan with an international practice. Headquartered in Detroit with offices in Lansing, Oakland County, Ann Arbor and Kalamazoo, the firm has attorneys practicing in more than 50 different areas of concentration. Honigman's highly-credentialed attorneys and staff, along with its customer-service focus, provide clients in a wide variety of industries timely and cost-effective counsel.

Our approach is built on relationships. That means a comprehensive and sustained focus on service at the highest levels throughout the firm to meet and anticipate our clients' evolving needs.

State and local taxes are a significant operating expense for most businesses. The experienced lawyers in the Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP Tax Appeals Department have achieved substantial tax savings for hundreds of our corporate and business clients. We represent businesses in property tax appeals, state tax litigation, and real estate transaction planning. We also negotiate tax credit and other incentive packages with state and local governmental entities.

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