Stuart Chipman-Bergsma

Stuart Chipman-Bergsma (“Chip”) provides legal representation and counsel for business clients, construction and development project owners, financial institutions, and insurance companies across Michigan and in Northern Indiana with a heavy focus in Kalamazoo and Southwest Michigan. With a broad range of experience in litigation and transactional work in several industries, Chip works with closely held businesses as external general counsel to provide comprehensive planning and management of the client’s legal needs.

Chip has counseled clients through business mergers and acquisitions, contract negotiations, employment issues, financial transactions, shareholder & member disputes, joint ventures, business formations, and dissolutions.

As all transactions are cut in the shadow of litigation, Chip brings his extensive civil litigation experience to the table in helping his clients build businesses and structure deals that last. He understands that litigation is rarely part of a successful business model, and he works to help his clients avoid the court room so they can dedicate their resources to the family, their business, and their community. When Chip’s clients are forced into litigation, he is a fierce, effective, and efficient litigator that artfully works towards the best possible outcome for his clients.

Chip serves Southwest Michigan credit unions and other financial institutions by providing regulatory compliance counsel, collections representation, and real estate foreclosure services. He has helped clients achieve excellent delinquency ratios and improve overall performance for their members.

Chip’s work with renewable energy project developers has established a practice area at Lennon Miller that will provide vital expertise and counsel to the community for decades as businesses work to adapt their work to the energy transition. He eagerly represents clients operating in the renewable energy development space.