Michael A. Sweeney
Mike focuses his practice on planning and implementing creative solutions to business and estate problems for privately-held businesses and families. He has extensive experience in assisting families in wealth preservation, management succession and family business transitions. Mike has been listed in Best Lawyers in America every year since 2004 for his expertise in estate, succession planning and probate law.  Mike has been named an Ohio Super Lawyer in 2008, 2009 and 2010 in a peer- and achievement-based review by Law & Politics Media, Inc.

Professional/Civic Activities
Mike is currently on the Board of Trustees of The University of Akron Foundation, as well as The Akron Community Foundation. His prior community involvement has included serving on the Board of Directors for Goodwill of Akron, the Great Trail Council of the Boy Scouts of America and Loyola of the Lakes Jesuit Retreat House. He is also past president of the Akron Tax and Estate Planning Council and formally was one of the charter sponsors of the Center for Family Business at The University of Akron. Mike is a graduate of Leadership Akron, Class XIII and is a member of the Akron, Cleveland Metropolitan, Ohio State and American Bar Associations.

Articles/Presentations
Mike is a frequent presenter at seminars.

Representative Engagements

• Represents families and businesses of all asset sizes.
• Lead counsel to management of family-owned business with sales of $200 million plus in phased buyout of non-active family owners.
• Counsel to majority owner of family-owned hospitality business in transition to second generation active and non-active family owners.
• Represented plaintiffs and defendants in many types of probate and trust matters.
• Represented individuals and fiduciaries in administrative proceedings before the Internal Revenue Service and in Tax Court.

Ohio Bar, 1976