Colleen Pleasant Kline is a mergers and acquisitions lawyer who also serves as outside general corporate counsel and advisor to middle market clients. She regularly assists her clients in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, succession planning, venture capital investments and general corporate governance matters. In addition, Colleen advises clients on Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notification filings. Her diverse client base includes privately held companies, portfolio companies, private equity firms, American subsidiaries of foreign owned entities and public companies, government contractors, manufacturers, distributors, and real estate entities and serial entrepreneurs. She has been recognized for her work by IFLR1000 USA as Highly Regarded in M&A and The Best Lawyers in America® for Venture Capital Law.

Harvey is a corporate partner in the Grand Rapids office of Varnum LLP, representing businesses and owners in mergers, acquisitions and capital raising. Harvey advises buyers and sellers in transactions with values ranging from a few million dollars to over $100 million.  Representative clients include manufacturers, financial institutions and technology companies. Harvey assists clients with due diligence, letters of intent, purchase agreements, transaction structure, indemnity mechanisms, representation and warranty insurance, and overall management of the transaction process. Harvey’s practice also includes corporate governance, family businesses, international transactions, securities regulation and executive compensation.