Practice Expertise

  • Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Creditors' ...
  • Financial Services Litigation
  • Financial Services Litigation – Commercial
  • Financial Services Litigation – Consumer

Areas of Practice

  • Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Creditors' ...
  • Financial Services Litigation
  • Financial Services Litigation – Commercial
  • Financial Services Litigation – Consumer
  • Cannabis Law
  • Government Policy & Practice
  • Litigation
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Profile

Rasul M. Raheem is a senior counsel in Dykema's Detroit office and member of the Financial Services Practice Group, focusing his practice in the areas of business transactions, regulatory law and banking law.

Mr. Raheem has nearly 30 years of experience as in-house counsel to Michigan National Bank and LaSalle Bank Corp., with the last nine years at Bank of America, N.A. He provides legal counsel and advice to senior management regarding finance and lending relationships, credit issues, restructuring and recovery strategies, reputational risk, treasury services, bank policy and regulatory issues. He also has experience managing outside counsel, related litigation and legal spend with law firms across the country.

Mr. Raheem was appointed by the Mayor of the City of Detroit to the Detroit Land Bank Authority Board of Directors. He also serves as a member of the Michigan Roundtable for Diversity & inclusion and as an adjunct professor at Western Michigan University Cooley Law School, where he teaches a course on banking and financial institutions law.

Mr. Raheem has a number of published appellate decisions to his credit, and he is a member of several professional organizations.

Bar Admissions

Michigan, 1984

Education
Wayne State University Law School, LL.M. in Corporate Finance Law, 2003 Wayne State University Law School, J.D., 1984 University of Michigan, B.G.S., 1979

Areas of Practice

  • Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Creditors' Rights
  • Financial Services Litigation
  • Financial Services Litigation – Commercial
  • Financial Services Litigation – Consumer
  • Cannabis Law
  • Government Policy & Practice
  • Litigation

Blogs

Cannabis Law Blog

The cannabis industry presents unprecedented opportunities for businesses and entrepreneurs. Yet, entities looking to engage in this emerging industry face daunting levels of legal complexity and uncertainty. Moreover, state and local governments are constantly tasked with regulating an ever-evolving industry. Dykema's Cannabis Law Blog discusses important cannabis-related legal developments, reviews the practical implications of those developments, and provides valuable insight for anyone...

Insurance Coverage Notes and Developments

Insurance Coverage Notes and Developments provides legal insight on topics of special interest to insurance industry professionals. Covering a wide range of industries, Dykema’s Insurance Coverage Notes and Developments blog provides brief but substantive alerts, including updates and analysis on significant developments and trends in the insurance industry.

NextGen Financial Services Report

NextGen Financial Services Report is published by the Financial Industry Group at Dykema. The Financial Services Industry has gone through a tremendous amount of regulatory and operational IT change in recent years, and with a new presidential administration more changes and developments are on the way. Fast-paced changes are also being driven by rapid technology developments, big data, mobile banking/payments, privacy and data security, and social media technologies affecting banks and credit...

The Firewall

The Firewall keeps you up to date on the hottest legal topics in the ever-changing world of data security and privacy. As information security becomes a critical facet of all businesses and industries and the target of many regulators, it is important to stay apprised of new legal developments. The Firewall provides insightful legal analysis of the emerging issues in data privacy and cybersecurity law to help businesses stay ahead of the curve.

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