About Frank R. Simon

At Simon PLC, Frank R. Simon oversees the Receivership Team. Simon has extensive experience as an articulate litigator, assignee, receiver and counsel for receivers in civil, family and criminal cases. He is particularly skilled at obtaining resolutions to complex cases that involve real property, personal property and taxes. Simon’s expertise in management, finance, banking, insolvency and real estate are especially beneficial on cases that involve the operation of closed or ongoing business concerns. As managing member of Simon PLC since its founding in 1998, Simon has garnered extensive experience in a wide range of receivership scenarios.

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Steven Morris

 

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Starrla McDonald

Starrla is a member of the Receivership Team with several years of experience focusing on asset management, legal compliance, and fiduciary oversight.

Position:  Receiver Assistant

Education:  Western Michigan University (B.A.)

Jayson Blake

Mr. Blake is a skilled litigation attorney practicing in state and federal courts with diverse experience in complex commercial litigation, including class actions, securities fraud, shareholder oppression, and professional negligence. He has been recognized as (i) one of America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigators, Michigan for three years in a row, (ii) one of Superlawyers top 50 Michigan Business Lawyers over several years, and (ii) as a Top Lawyer in Business Litigation in DBusiness Magazine.

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Joshua Brody

 

Mr. Brody has extensive experience on real estate transactions and performance-based experiences particularly in Multifamily and Commercial portfolios, working previously for one of the largest real estate companies that handles real estate transactions and receiverships nationwide. He specializes in lease and contract negotiations, having negotiated a complex portfolio of ancillary income contracts with cable/fiber providers, valet operators, building naming rights agreements, antenna leases, as well as hundreds of commercial leases.

Mr. Brody has also worked for a large Multifamily developer and operator, overseeing leasing, operations, and commercial buildouts in mixed-use buildings, as well as asset managing over 2,000 + apartments, helping increasing NOI on multiple projects and overseeing ancillary income contracts. In addition, Mr. Brody has extensive experience working with municipalities on zoning, development, and asset management issues in municipalities throughout the country.

Mr. Brody earned a Bachelor’s Degree of Science in public financial management from Indiana University in 2010 and a Juris Doctor from DePaul University College of Law in 2014.

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Email: gberman@simonattys.com

Geoffrey L. Berman

 

Mr. Berman is a former President of the American Bankruptcy Institute and was an ex-officio member of ABI’s Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11, whose Report was issued in 2014 and has been cited by numerous courts, including the Supreme Court. He nationally recognized for his work both administering assignments for the benefit of creditors and writing the ABI’s books on ABCs “General Assignments for the Benefit of Creditor, The ABCs of ABCs”, now in its sixth edition. He has also written on ABCs for numerous publications. With over fifty years of addressing distressed situations, Geoff brings a unique background to fiduciary engagements, not just ABCs but receiverships, post-confirmation chapter 11trustee matters and expert witness engagements. Geoff served as an observer to the Uniform Law Commission’s Committee that drafted the Uniform Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors Act, approved by the Uniform Law Commission at its July 2025 annual meeting. The Act is now out to the states for review and potential enactment. Geoff continues to speak at conferences across the country. Recent speaking engagements include the ABI-NCBJ panels in 2025, the Commercial Receivership Association Annual Meetings and numerous ABI regional and national conferences.

Melanie Freeman

Position: Paralegal

Education:
Paralegal Certificate (2015)
Oakland Community College
Bachelor of Science; Political Science/Legal Studies (2008)
Central Michigan University

Need Receivership Support?

You’ve just been appointed receiver. Now what? Acting as receiver can be a daunting task, especially if you’re entering into an industry with which you have limited experience. With decades of experience acting as a court-appointed receiver, the Team at Simon PLC is in a unique position to provide support–whether it’s administrative, accounting, legal, staffing, property management, consulting–to newly appointed receivers. As receiver, you may need assistance running day-to-day operations, negotiating liens, reviewing contracts, assessing real estate, evaluating assets and other tasks essential to reclaiming as much of the debt as possible; Simon PLC can assist you with your receivership duties to ensure the job is completed expertly and efficiently.

Creditor Support

Simon has identified, seized or secured and liquidated real and personal assets to satisfy creditors. This includes liquidating a medical practice with six offices, overseeing management of a 1.5 million square-foot shopping center and recovering a $500,000 insurance claim from theft at a shopping plaza.

Corporate

Simon manages the ongoing business concerns of receivership or assignment estates such as apartment buildings, gas stations, grocery stores, storage centers, commercial and industrial buildings, restaurants and bars, doctor’s offices, bowling alleys and golf courses.

Real Estate

Simon has negotiated and drafted documents and contracts for real and personal property sales and listings, as well as resolve tax, construction, fraudulent transfers and mortgage lien litigation.

Family Law

Receivership can be an extremely effective tool to implement in sensitive areas such as recovering child and spousal support, marital assets, and similar collection and collateral needs in the Family Division of the courts.