Deal Maker + Real Estate, Finance & Construction Law Firm of the Year - USA

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The firm is honored to be recognized for its expertise and innovative approach by Lawyer Monthly Magazine, which has named attorney Sverre David Roang Deal Maker of the Year and recognized the firm as Real Estate, Finance & Construction Law Firm of the Year for 2011, due to the work performed by attorney Brad Dallet and the firm’s Real Estate, Finance and Construction teams.

Corporate and M&A Practice

WHD’s Corporate Transactions Team draws on extensive experience in a wide range of business transactions, working with clients as diverse as publicly traded NYSE companies, large and midsize privately held companies, emerging entrepreneurial businesses, and closely held family businesses. WHD attorneys possess the expertise to handle highly complex transactions on a national and international level, as well as the industry-specific experience to provide efficient and focused counsel.

WHD’s commitment to truly

understanding a client’s business is one characteristic that sets it apart from the competition. WHD works with businesses to help them understand and address the legal aspects of starting, financing, acquiring or selling a business; capital and ownership structures (including employee ownership); business succession planning; individual financial, tax, and estate planning; leveraged buyouts; asset acquisitions; stock purchases; tax-free mergers; leveraged recapitalizations; and multi-tiered financing structures.

Sverre David Roang is a shareholder in the Madison office, where he serves as co-leader of the firm’s Corporate Practice Group. Roang works with a variety of businesses to lead

them through all stages of their development, and has strong experience in mergers, acquisitions, corporate governance and various other transactions. Roang works diligently to understand the broader industry in which his clients operate, allowing him to provide pointed and impactful legal counsel. He has been particularly successful doing so for significant agribusiness companies throughout the United States and around the world, helping many navigate complex M&A transactions. Chambers USA has

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multi-family real estate. According to Chambers USA, clients have described him as “an extremely practical and business-minded attorney, who cuts straight to the point,” and have endorsed him for his “complete grasp of the law, understanding of the issues and awareness of the big picture. He’s a real deal maker.”

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recognized Roang for his “impeccable legal knowledge,” “ability to keep his cool but get tough when needs be,” and the “high level of client service” he offers in M&A transactions. According to Chambers, “he is as much a business partner as he is a lawyer.”

Real Estate, Finance & Construction

WHD’s Real Estate, Finance and Construction teams offer clients the practical judgment, technical expertise and innovative thinking it takes to advance each client’s unique interests and get deals done in a timely, cost-effective manner. The teams represent businesses, developers, purchasers, sellers, tenants, landlords, municipalities, contractors, entrepreneurs, banks, finance companies, insurance companies, pension funds, equity funds, suppliers and other borrowers, lenders and investors. WHD’s experience encompasses the principal areas of development; purchase and sale; leasing; tax-deferred transactions; condominium development; zoning and land use; eminent domain; taxation; litigation; brownfield development; environmental assessment; secured and unsecured commercial loans; participations, syndications and mezzanine or junior lien financing arrangements; structuring and closing bond transactions; assisting lenders in credit enhancement facilities; and construction, mortgage, TIF, debtor-in-possession and exit financing.

Brad Dallet is a shareholder in the Milwaukee office, where he serves as leader of the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group. He concentrates his practice in the area of real estate

transactions and real estate finance, and is experienced in representing national, regional and local retailers, developers, companies and individuals in the purchase, sale, development and leasing of retail, industrial, office, and

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Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. (WHD) is a full-service law firm with offices in Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin, and more than 150 professionals practicing in 50 industry and specialty teams. WHD is committed to delivering exceptional service and innovative practical solutions to prominent national, regional and state clients. The firm is particularly well-known for its ability to handle complex corporate, transactional, real estate, finance and construction law matters, and is especially adept at applying specific industry knowledge and experience to its clients’ business and legal needs. This commitment and approach is, in part, why the firm was recognized by Chambers USA as one of the leading law firms for business, being viewed as “highly esteemed for M&A matters,” “a go-to firm on a range of local real estate issues,” and for having “experts in every area” and “a deep and broad base of sector-specific knowledge.” It is also why WHD earned international recognition from World Finance as Best M&A Firm In USA 2012, Finance Monthly Magazine as Mergers & Acquisitions Law Firm of the Year (USA) and Corporate Governance Law Firm of the Year (USA) for 2011, and from Corporate INTL as Clients’ Choice – Wisconsin M&A Law Firm of the Year and Clients’ Choice – Wisconsin Natural Resources Law Firm of the Year for 2011.

Contacts

Sverre David Roang Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. 33 East Main Street, Suite 300 Madison, WI 53703-4655 United States Tel: (608) 234-6079 Email: sroang@whdlaw.com

Bradley I. Dallet Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. 555 East Wells Street, Suite 1900 Milwaukee, WI 53202-3819 Unites States Tel: (414) 978-5525 Email: bdallet@whdlaw.com

Website: www.whdlaw.com LawyerMonthly Legal Awards 2011