Tom Lewand, a Partner with Bodman LLP in Detroit, represents corporations in a variety of general business transactions. He also works with a number of municipalities as bond counsel. A representative transaction has been the issuance of $270 million in bonds in ten series for 13 Downriver communities and Wayne County under court supervision over a five-year period.

Lewand has negotiated numerous public private partnerships between corporations and municipalities including a transaction among the Detroit Lions, Wayne County and the City of Detroit for construction of a new $400 million stadium. He was the Governor's Facilitator on a $50 million public private partnership between the Detroit Medical Center and three government units.  He also serves as lead negotiator for Detroit Medical Center in restructuring its contracts with Wayne State University School of Medicine which total $80 million annually.

Lewand serves as Special Master to United States District Court Judge John Feikens on water and sewer matters for southeast Michigan involving analysis of legal and financial issues on several federal lawsuits and a voluntary consortium of all municipalities in Southeast Michigan.

Lewand was appointed to the Michigan Economic Development Corporation Executive Committee in 2006, and serves on the Human Resources Subcommittee.

Lewand earned his B.A. from the University of Detroit in 1968 and his law degree, magna cum laude, from Wayne State University in 1970.

Lewand is a director of the Wayne County Economic Development Corporation, treasurer of the Governor’s Residence Foundation, chairman of the Mackinac Island Board of Public Works, secretary of the Mackinac Island Affordable Housing Corporation, immediate past chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Detroit Mercy, and immediate past chairman of the Michigan Civil Service Commission.