Varnum attorney Gabriel Edelson has been selected to participate in the Detroit Regional Chamber’s Leadership Detroit program, a transformational leadership course designed to challenge emerging and existing community leaders from Southeast Michigan.
Edelson is a member of Varnum’s Business and Corporate Services Practice Team. Based in the firm’s Birmingham office, he represents private equity firms, portfolio companies and a wide variety of other businesses in cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate governance and general corporate matters.
Within the community, Edelson serves as Chief Protocol Officer on the Board of Directors for the Founders Junior Council at the Detroit Institute of Arts. He is also active in the Michigan Region of ORT America, serving on the organizing committee for the annual Rub-a-Dub fundraiser.
Leadership Detroit is a community leadership program for executives in Southeast Michigan. Launched in 1979, the program aims to create awareness of key issues that affect the Detroit region and to challenge emerging and existing community leaders to bring about positive change in the community through informed leadership.
The 2022 program will include nine in-person sessions featuring relationship-building activities and discussions by local experts and leaders as well as eight virtual sessions to cultivate leadership development.