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Dan A. Penning practiced law for over 30 years before establishing the Penning Group Consulting Services in 2018.

Dan and his team are uniquely qualified in helping individuals, families and business owners realize their goals of protecting, saving and passing on family assets. Dan designs and develops plans to accomplish his clients goals while navigating through each client’s issues including the emotional and complex issues among family members.

Similarly, Dan’s experience in the succession planning area has resulted in him advising business owners to develop plans to transition ownership of their companies to third parties through stock sales,asset sales and stock exchanges.

Dan has also worked extensively with professionals in the insurance industry throughout his career which has led to his work with life insurance settlements  including the sale of life insurance policies by individual policy owners to third parties.

He enjoys his free time assisting the communities he loves. Some of his favorite areas of service have been working with several non-profit and governmental boards including the City of Farmington Planning Commission; Suttons Bay-Bingham Twp. Fire Board Authority; Chairman of the Farmington-Farmington Hills Chamber of Commerce and The Farmington Family YMCA.

 

Affiliations and awards:

Juris Doctor Law (1986) Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Lansing, Michigan

BA Economics (1982) Calvin College , Grand Rapids Michigan

Michigan Bar Examination Passed - November, 1986

Michigan Bar Association Law License (1986-2018)

Martindale Hubbell Peer Review AV Rating “Preeminent”(1994-present)

Fellow Member Michigan State Bar Foundation (2001-2016)

Certified Estate Planning Attorney-Institute for Continuing Legal Education (ICLE) Ann Arbor, Michigan (2012-2016)

Michigan State Bar Association (1986-2016)

American Bar Association (1990-2016)

Oakland County Bar Association (1986-2016)

Contact us.

Dan Penning

dan@penninggroup.com

(248) 752-6480

P.O Box 490
Suttons Bay, MI 49682