Maxwell G. Shuart

Well-versed in transactional matters, Max has wide-ranging experience representing companies, private equity firms, family offices, strategic sector clients, and individual clients in buy- and sell-side mergers and acquisitions in industries such as manufacturing, automotive, software, information technology, industrial, professional services, and health care. He is experienced in managing transactional matters from the planning stage to closing and everything in between.

Max also has experience with corporate formation and governance, series fundraising, raising capital and issuing debt, and with drafting operating and shareholder agreements, leases, and employment, customer, and supplier agreements. He assists clients with regulatory filings, insurance matters, and credit and loan agreements. His experience includes drafting and negotiating purchase agreements, customer and supplier contracts, commercial leases, and ancillary documents. Max also has considerable experience representing clients in bankruptcy and receivership matters and with the restructuring and/or liquidation of distressed companies.

Max is an Associate practicing in Butzel’s Detroit office. He is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, Business Law and Young Lawyers Sections. Max earned his juris doctor, cum laude, from Wayne State University Law School, where he was a member of the Wayne Law Review and participated in Moot Court. During law school, Max served as a law clerk to the House of Representative Ways and Means Committee, the nation’s chief tax writing committee, in Washington D.C. Prior to law school, Max attended the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor and received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and History.

An avid hockey and sports fan, Max was a four-year letter winner with the University of Michigan ice hockey team and played professional hockey in Sweden. Max stays involved with the Michigan hockey program as a fill-in radio commentator for hockey games and enjoys watching football and playing golf.

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Education

Wayne State University Law School, J.D., cum laude

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, B.A.

Admissions

Memberships

• State Bar of Michigan – Business Law, Young Lawyers Sections

Awards & Recognitions

Taft Transactional Law Competition – Negotiations Winner, Seller’s Counsel

Wayne State University Law School - Moot Court 2020 Winter In-House Competition Champion

Big Ten All-Academic - Big Ten Athletic Conference, 2015, 2016, 2017

University of Michigan Scholar Athlete - University of Michigan Athletic Department, 2015, 2016, 2017

Community & Professional

Learfield Studios, Ann Arbor - Radio Commentator, University of Michigan Ice Hockey, 2018- Present

Wayne State University Law School - Levin Center Summer Intern; The Wayne Law Review, Associate Editor; Taft Transactional Law Invitational (Negotiations and Contract Drafting Winner); Teaching Assistant to Professor Justin Long; Disability Law Clinic

University of Michigan – Ann Arbor - Varsity Ice Hockey Team (2013-2017); All Big Ten Academic Team (2016, 2017); Endowed Scholarship Recipient (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)