Butzel Long President and CEO Justin G. Klimko to receive ACG Detroit’s Lifetime Achievement Award

DETROIT, Mich. –  Justin G. Klimko, President and CEO, Butzel Long, will receive the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Detroit Lifetime Achievement Award at an event later this year. The award is presented as part ACG Detroit’s Annual M&A All Star Awards. Klimko is a Board Member and Secretary of ACG Detroit.

Klimko, based in the firm’s Detroit office, has extensive experience in securities regulation, corporate financing, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and general corporate matters, areas in which he has practiced since 1980. He has received numerous awards and recognitions for business law matters and is ranked as one of Michigan’s leading corporate and M&A lawyers. He is a past chair of the State Bar of Michigan Business Law Section and a past recipient of the Section’s Stephen H. Schulman Outstanding Business Lawyer Award. He co-chairs the Section’s Corporate Laws Committee, responsible for development of Michigan’s corporate statute.  He also has chaired the Section’s Ad Hoc Committee on Legal Opinions, which has issued reports to address opinion issues in business transactions, including issues specific to Michigan law, and is a member of the TriBar Opinion Committee, a national committee addressing opinions in business transaction.

Klimko previously taught corporation law as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Detroit Mercy Law School, frequently lectures and authors articles on business law subjects and has served as general editor of a treatise on Michigan Business Forms and as a contributing author for a treatise on Michigan contract law. 

He is included in the publication The Best Lawyers in America and enjoys an “AV” rating from the Martindale-Hubbell rating system. Klimko is rated one of Michigan's top Corporate/M&A attorneys by Chambers USA Guide of America's Leading Lawyers for Business and is listed in Michigan Super Lawyers (Mergers and Acquisitions).

About the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG)

ACG is a global organization with 59 chapters and 14,500 members including professionals from private equity firms, corporations and lenders that invest in middle-market companies, as well as from law, accounting, investment banking and other firms that provide advisory services.