Christopher J. Nelson is a shareholder based in Butzel Long's Bloomfield Hills office.
Mr. Nelson has served as a manager of the firm’s business litigation group and specializes in complex, business-related civil litigation, including disputes involving business acquisitions, corporate management, real estate, fraud, insurance coverage, environmental liabilities, class action defense, the Uniform Commercial Code, and other business and commercial contracts. He has appeared in courts throughout Michigan and before the courts of Illinois, Ohio and Kansas. He is a member of the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section and serves as an appointed mediator for commercial cases pending in Oakland County.
Mr. Nelson is a graduate of Washington University School of Law (J.D., 1995) where he served as Associate Editor of the Washington University Law Quarterly, and authored “Director Liability and the Insolvent, Federally Chartered Financial Institution,” 73 Wash U.L.Q. 1447 (1995). He also is a graduate of Michigan State University (B.A., 1992).