Tom Buiteweg

Tom Buiteweg helps financial institutions, sales finance companies, motor vehicle dealers and manufacturers to establish and maintain motor vehicle and personal property financing and leasing programs. He assists FinTech and other companies establish and maintain electronic financial services programs. Through his work on Uniform Law Commission ("ULC", also known as the "National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws") projects and other professional activities, he is also active in several rapidly evolving areas of the law affecting the delivery of financial services, including the regulation of virtual currency businesses, highly automated vehicles, and smart contracts.

Tom is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Michigan Law School where he teaches a course in sales and secured financing that focuses on dealer and consumer motor vehicle sales and financing.

Tom speaks and writes frequently on financial services and vehicle-related topics, including electronic financial services, collections and repossessions, highly automated vehicles, the Uniform Commercial Code, vehicle and personal property leasing.

Tom is actively involved in many professional organizations. He has been a vice-chair of both the Consumer Financial Service and Uniform Commercial Code Committees of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association. He currently serves as Chair of the Michigan Commission on Uniform State Laws and as the Treasurer and an Executive Committee Member of the ULC.

Tom also chairs the ULC's Committee on Technology. His past ULC work involved a wide variety of projects, including automated vehicles, the regulation of virtual currency businesses, the 2022 and 2010 revisions to the Uniform Commercial Code, home foreclosure procedures, manufactured housing financing, and motor vehicle titling.