Rasul M. Raheem Senior Counsel
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Rasul M. Raheem Senior Counsel Detroit 400 Renaissance Center Detroit, MI 48243 T: 313-568-5341 [email protected] Areas Of Practice Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Creditors' Rights Rasul M. Raheem is a senior counsel in Dykema's Detroit office and Litigation member of the Financial Services Practice Group, focusing his practice in the areas of business transactions, regulatory law and banking law. Government Policy & Practice Financial Services Litigation – Mr. Raheem has nearly 30 years of experience as in-house counsel to Commercial Michigan National Bank and LaSalle Bank Corp., with the last nine years Financial Services Litigation – at Bank of America, N.A. He provides legal counsel and advice to senior Consumer management regarding finance and lending relationships, credit issues, restructuring and recovery strategies, reputational risk, treasury services, Cannabis Law bank policy and regulatory issues. He also has experience managing outside counsel, related litigation and legal spend with law firms across Industries the country. Financial Industry Group Mr. Raheem was appointed by the Mayor of the City of Detroit to the Financial Services Regulatory & Detroit Land Bank Authority Board of Directors. He also serves as a Compliance member of the Michigan Roundtable for Diversity & inclusion and as an Commercial Mortgage-Backed adjunct professor at Western Michigan University Cooley Law School, Securities Special Servicer Group where he teaches a course on banking and financial institutions law. Bar Admissions Mr. Raheem has a number of published appellate decisions to his credit, and he is a member of several professional organizations. Michigan, 1984 Court Admissions Experience U.S. District Court, Eastern District ● Represented a middle-market lending group’s $240 million commercial of Michigan loan and real estate portfolio involving industry conglomerates, Major U.S. District Court, Northern League Baseball, the National Hockey League and the construction of District of Illinois Comerica Park U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit ● Provided broad-based counseling and legal services for commercial U.S. Supreme Court lending-loan documentation, financial services and regulatory matters, credit advisories, workouts, letters of credit, consumer lending, international lending and litigation Education ● Provided counsel to intergovernmental special purpose public authority Wayne State University Law on banking and regulatory issues for vacant, abandoned and foreclosed School, LL.M. in Corporate property owned by the city of Detroit Finance Law, 2003 Wayne State University Law ● Served as counsel to commercial lending groups, including middle School, J.D., 1984 market, business banking, asset-based lending, syndicated lending and commercial real estate lending University of Michigan, B.G.S., 1979 ● Served as counsel, providing legal advice in the areas of contracts, treasury services, the Uniform Commercial Code Articles 3, 4, 5 and 9, general litigation claims, and provided strategies to avoid and mitigate risk to financial institutions California Illinois Michigan Minnesota Texas Washington, D.C. Rasul M. Raheem (Cont.) Significant Decisions ● National Union Fire Insurance Company, et al v Standard Federal Bank, 309 F. Supp. 2d 960 (E.D. Mich. 2004) ● BCM Electronics v LaSalle Bank, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12773, 59 U.C.C. Rep. Serv. 2d 280 (N.D. Ill. 2006) Seminars & Speeches Risky Business and Risk Mitigation: Cannabis-Related Businesses and Banking Law, 2020 Banking Law Institute September 21, 2020 Publications "Building Capacity of Lenders to the Underserved" May 5, 2021 ABA Banking Journal News Rasul Raheem Expects Banks to Play It “SAFE” Regarding Proposed Cannabis Act in Bloomberg BNA Banking Law March 26, 2019 Memberships & Involvement ● State Bar of Michigan ● American Bar Association ● American Bar Foundation, Fellow ● National Bar Association (Board of Governors, Chapter Affiliate Representative, 2013 - 2014; President's Corporate Advisory Committee, 2014 - 2015; Board of Governors’ Audit Committee, Chair; Commercial Law Section - Executive Committee, 2011 - Present) ● Oakland County Bar Association ● Oakland Country Bar Foundation, Fellow ● D. Augustus Straker Bar Association (President, 2013 - 2014) ● Wolverine Bar Association ● Western Michigan University Cooley Law School, Adjunct Professor, Banking and Financial Institutions Law, 2011 - 2015 Community/Civic Activities ● Detroit Land Bank Authority, Board of Directors, 2016-2018 ● Michigan Roundtable for Diversity & Inclusion, Board of Directors, 2016 Awards & Recognition ● Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® for Banking and Finance Law; Financial Services Regulation Law, 2021. Copyright 2015 by Woodward/White, Inc., Aiken, SC ● D. Augustus Straker Bar Association Trailblazers Award, 2018 ● Western Michigan University Cooley Law School Integrity in Our Community Award, 2018 ● National Bar Association Presidential Award, 2016 California Illinois Michigan Minnesota Texas Washington, D.C. Rasul M. Raheem (Cont.) ● Wolverine Bar Association Foundation Golden Gavel Award, 2016 ● First Chair Top Outstanding Assistant General Counsel. 2013-2015 ● Michigan Chronicle Men of Excellence Award, 2014 California Illinois Michigan Minnesota Texas Washington, D.C..