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Dawda PLC

Dawda PLC is a law firm in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Dawda Mann is dedicated to helping businesses and the individuals who own them.

We are located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, with a clientele of Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, publicly and privately owned companies of varied sizes, and emerging businesses located throughout the United States. We also represent many individuals in their tax, estate and personal planning matters. When you need a law firm that is dedicated to and experienced in the needs of busi

ness, please contact Dawda Mann. We provide solutions in response to the complex business needs of our clients.

05/29/2026

Metro Detroit is moving. Development corridors that sat quiet for years are seeing activity. Family-owned businesses that have operated across two and three generations are navigating transitions, ownership transfers, real estate decisions and growth that demands better structure. The spring commercial market is not quiet.

Dawda has been part of this business community for more than thirty years. Not as observers, but as counsel to the owners making these decisions, the developers closing these transactions, and the investors structuring these acquisitions.

What those years have produced is something that doesn't show up in a firm profile. It is an understanding of how Michigan business actually works, the relationships that underpin transactions here, the weight that institutional knowledge carries, and the way a handshake between people who have worked together for decades still shapes how deals get done.

That knowledge is earned over time, client by client, deal by deal, matter by matter. We're here, and we're engaged with what's happening in this market right now.

05/28/2026

When you formed a corporation or an LLC, you created a legal separation between yourself and your business. That separation is real, and it carries value, generally, the obligations of the company are not your personal obligations. A creditor pursuing the company cannot automatically reach your personal assets.

That protection, however, is not self-sustaining. It depends on the company being treated as a genuinely distinct entity, with its own accounts, its own records, and its own documented decision-making. Courts examining whether to hold an owner personally liable will look at whether that distinction was actually maintained. Were annual meetings held and documented? Were major decisions, financing commitments, ownership changes, real estate acquisitions, reflected in board or member resolutions? Were personal and business finances kept separate?

Where those things haven't happened, courts have found that the line between owner and entity was blurred. When the line is blurred enough, the liability protection erodes. A creditor or a plaintiff who gets through the corporate veil can reach personal assets that should have been protected.

Maintaining corporate formalities is not a matter of satisfying procedural requirements. It is the ongoing demonstration that the legal separation you created at formation is real. The records are the proof that the shield exists.

If the formalities have slipped, they can be addressed. The time to do it is before someone starts looking at whether they were maintained.

05/27/2026

Q1 has a way of producing decisions that Q3 will ask you to account for, if Q2 doesn't address them first.

Business owners who moved quickly in the first quarter, adding a partner, taking on financing, signing a renewal, restructuring ownership, made those decisions at the time for good reasons. What tends to follow is a period of ex*****on where the documentation of those decisions gets deferred.

The intent is to circle back. The bandwidth doesn't materialize.

Some questions worth sitting with this month: Did a new investor or partner come in without a formal amendment to the operating agreement? Was a commercial lease renewed without a review of the rent escalation provisions or the permitted use clause? Did the company take on a credit facility without counsel engaged on the loan documents? Did a compensation arrangement with a key person get put into writing, or is it still running on the terms of an early conversation?

None of these are unusual. Most are correctable. The window for addressing them without urgency is now, not after a dispute surfaces or a transaction requires disclosure of what the records actually say.

April is behind you. May is the right time to look at what it left behind.

05/26/2026

Congratulations to Glenn G. Ross, named a 2026 Michigan Super Lawyer in Estate & Probate, his 10th year of recognition.
Glenn helps our clients plan with clarity today and confidence for what comes next.

05/25/2026

Today is not about the start of summer.

It is about the men and women who did not come home.

Memorial Day asks something of us. Not a grand gesture, but a moment of genuine stillness. A pause long enough to remember that the freedoms we move through without thinking were not free.

To those who served and did not return, and to the families who carry that loss every day, not just today: you are remembered.

05/22/2026

Consider a two-person company. One partner passes unexpectedly. The surviving owner is now in business with the estate of her partner, with a buy-out mechanism written five years ago, using a valuation formula that reflected what the company was worth at the time.

The business is not the same business. Revenue may have grown. Assets may have changed. The formula may no longer bear any resemblance to what a third party would pay today. The estate has a financial interest in how the transaction resolves, and what seemed like a clear mechanism is now a source of dispute.

Buy-sell agreements exist precisely for these moments. They are supposed to provide a clear, agreed-upon process so that a difficult event doesn't become a prolonged legal conflict. But an agreement that doesn't reflect the current business doesn't accomplish that. It creates a different problem.

When was the last time you read yours? More specifically, when did you last review whether the valuation method still makes sense, whether the funding mechanism is still in place, and whether the terms reflect the company you have today?

Your Buy-Sell Agreement is a document worth pulling out before the question becomes urgent.

05/21/2026

A court can tell you who wins. It can award damages, order specific performance, or dissolve a business arrangement. What it cannot do is produce an outcome that neither side had standing to request, or design a resolution that keeps something intact both parties may still want.

Consider two partners in a commercial real estate venture who disagree on a development decision. One wants to move forward. The other wants to sell. The disagreement is genuine, and the stakes are real. If the matter reaches litigation, the likely outcome is a forced dissolution, a judicial sale, a wind-down, an end to what both parties built.

Mediation opens different possibilities. The partners might negotiate a buyout on terms that work for both. They might restructure the arrangement so that one party has decision-making authority over development while the other retains their economic position. They might arrive at a structure no court would have ordered, because courts are constrained in what they can award. Parties in mediation are not.

This matters most in business disputes where the relationship, or some part of it, has value worth preserving. Commercial partnerships, long-term vendor arrangements, shareholder disagreements among people who built something together. Litigation ends those relationships. A well-structured mediated resolution often doesn't have to.

Dawda's dispute resolution team handles commercial matters across both paths and helps clients understand what each one is actually likely to produce before committing to either.

05/20/2026

Congratulations to Brian J. Considine and Susan J. Sadler, both named to the 2026 Michigan Super Lawyers list in Environmental Law.
Brian marks 10 years of recognition; Susan marks 21. Their combined experience anchors one of Michigan's most respected environmental practices.

05/19/2026

Two partners formed a company and split it evenly. Equal ownership, equal decision-making authority, equal share of profits. That was the right structure for the business they were building at the time.

Over the years, the business evolved. One partner took on operations, managing the team, overseeing delivery, handling the day-to-day. The other focused on client development and relationships. Neither partner formalized the shift. They talked about it, agreed to an adjusted compensation arrangement informally, and kept working. The operating agreement stayed the same.

Then a dispute arose. The agreement they both signed years earlier didn't acknowledge any of what the business had become. It reflected a company that no longer existed, with a structure that no longer matched what either partner actually did. When the matter moved toward resolution, the document was the record the parties had to work from, not the understanding they believed they shared.

Courts look at what the documents say. They often do not give significant weight to what partners believed was implied, or what was agreed to informally, or what seemed obvious to everyone at the time.

Your written partnership agreement should reflect the company you have today, not the one you formed. Talk to your attorney at Dawda for potential solutions.

05/18/2026

Heading to the Detroit Commercial Real Estate Mid-Year Forecast on Tuesday? Come say hello.

Thomas August of Dawda is moderating a panel at the 11th Annual event, hosted by Michigan REjournal at The Community House on May 19. The morning brings developers, investors, brokers, and advisors together for a candid look at where the Detroit market stands at the half-year mark—and where it is headed next.

If you are attending, we hope to see you there.

Event details: https://site.pheedloop.com/event/DetroitForecast11th/home

05/16/2026

Congratulations to John Mucha III, named to the 2026 Michigan Super Lawyers list in Civil Litigation: Defense and to the Top 100: Michigan Super Lawyers, reserved for the 100 highest-rated attorneys in the state.

17 consecutive years of recognition. Well earned, John.

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