Butzel Long attorney elected president of Detroit Athletic Club

Geoffrey S. Gallinger, attorney and shareholder, Butzel Long, has been elected to a one-year term as president and member of the Board of Directors of the Detroit Athletic Club.

Most recently, Gallinger served as first vice-president and an officer of the DAC Board of Directors. He also has served as corporate secretary and on numerous committees. 

A graduate of Michigan State University and MSU College of Law, Gallinger's practice includes counseling clients regarding general business and corporate transactional, finance and planning needs, including all forms of real estate transactions and developments, acquisitions, leasing, financing and condominiums.

He has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, partnerships and joint ventures, shareholder matters and general business transactions. His areas of specialty are corporate and business transactions, real estate transactions, development and financing, troubled asset and workout restructuring and financing.