overview
Richard C. Buslepp, who is a Certified Public Accountant as well as an attorney, focuses his practice on business/corporate law, tax, opportunity zones and qualified opportunity funds, estate planning, and real estate.
Practice Areas
Bio
Rich is co-chairperson of the firm’s Business and Corporate Law practice group. He has more than 30 years of experience serving as business counsel to clients in a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, health care, architectural and engineering, technology, construction, service and transportation. Rich specializes in structuring, negotiating, and consummating complex domestic and cross-border transactions such as stock and asset sale transactions, leveraged buyouts, mergers, recapitalizations, divestitures, take-privates, joint ventures, debt and equity finance transactions, management led buyouts, real estate transactions and restructure transactions for private equity, public, non profits, and family owned clients. He regularly counsels clients on a variety of other legal matters including corporate governance, business entity formation, the formation and qualification of tax-exempt organizations, tax planning, tax controversies, the preparation and review of contracts, and business planning and law issues. Experienced in advising US and foreign-based companies in establishing operations in both the US and abroad, Rich also leads the firm’s US-Asia practice.
Additionally, Rich has lectured and written on various business and tax law-related subjects, including the advantages and disadvantages of the various forms of business entities, the requirements for tax deferred like-kind exchanges, and corporate, estate and partnership tax matters.
credentials
Affiliations
- Detroit Bar Association
- State Bar of Michigan
- Business Law Section
- Tax Law Section
- American Bar Association
- Business Law Section
- Tax Law Section
- Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Bar and Court Admissions
- Michigan
Education
- Wayne State University Law School, J.D.
- cum laude
- Wayne State University Law School, LL.M.
- cum laude
Insights & News
January 19, 2023
Indication of Interest vs. a Letter of Intent
March 10, 2021
Richard Buslepp discusses Golden Parachutes vs. Golden Handcuffs for Crain's Detroit Business
March 17, 2020
Coronavirus/COVID-19 Business Continuity: A Message to Our Community, Clients and Friends
February 4, 2020
Kerr Russell Attorney Discusses Mergers & Acquisitions with Corp! Magazine
May 9, 2019
Kerr Russell Attorneys Advise Peterson in Sale to MiddleGround Capital
August 30, 2018
Kerr Russell team places first at Detroit Chinese Business Association golf outing
July 9, 2018
Kerr Russell - DBusiness Magazine's "Faces of Corporate Law 2018"
February 14, 2018
Kerr Russell lunch and learn with Sterling Insurance Group
January 26, 2018
Download Kerr Russell's updated firm brochure and overview of services
December 18, 2017
Kerr Russell team makes holiday donations to Capuchin Soup Kitchen, Wigs 4 Kids, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Ann Arbor, and Children's Hospital of Michigan
November 30, 2017
Merry and bright ... Kerr Russell welcomes the holiday season
November 16, 2017
Culture of Connection - new Kerr Russell ad to appear in Michigan Lawyers Weekly and dbusiness
November 3, 2017
Kerr Russell launches new advertising in upcoming issues of dbusiness and Crain's Detroit
November 1, 2017
Kerr Russell ranked in the 2018 U.S. News - Best Lawyers® "Best Law Firms" list nationally in 1 practice area and regionally in 17 practice areas
August 10, 2017
A culture of giving
November 6, 2016
Kerr, Russell, Rich Buslepp and Michael D. Gibson receive "Materials Deal of the Year" Award from The M&A Advisor
February 10, 2016
Kerr Russell, Richard C. Buslepp and Michael D. Gibson receive M&A Advisor Award
Representative Matters
Represented management of a Tier I auto supplier in connection with the sale of the company
Represented electrical contractor in connection with sale of company
Represented Tier I auto supplier in connection with $100 Million refinancing
Represented privately held aerospace engineering company in connection with the sale of the company