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Business Restructuring, Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy

The extensive experience of WHD's Business Restructuring, Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy Practice extends to all matters that concern advising, consulting or doing business with financially troubled enterprises. This experience includes every variety of state and federal insolvency proceedings, Chapter 11 and 7 bankruptcies, workouts and restructurings. We have represented lenders, creditors' committees, suppliers, lessors, purchasers, equity holders, corporate and individual creditors and debtors. More...

Commercial Finance

Each commercial finance transaction involves a unique framework of risks and rewards. In the end, what matters most is managing the risks and enhancing the rewards at the heart of our client's deal. That's why WHD's Commercial Finance Team offers more than experience and technical expertise. We also provide the practical judgment, innovative and incisive thinking and professional commitment it takes to advance our clients' business success. More...

Consumer Financial Services

WHD's Consumer Financial Services Team is known for its unique ability to blend legal principles with operational and marketplace understanding. Our professionals combine talent with industry expertise and involvement in the legislative process to get results for providers of consumer credit. More...

Public Finance

WHD is a nationally recognized bond counsel firm, having maintained a continuous listing since 1986 in The Bond Buyer's Municipal Marketplace list of Municipal Bond Attorneys. Our public finance attorneys, combined, have more than 100 years of experience in public finance transactions and have been involved in various capacities in more than 1,500 bond transactions involving nearly $26 billion of bonds. More...

Attorneys

Daryl L. Diesing
Attorney
Milwaukee
Daniel W. Gentges
Attorney
Milwaukee
Michael E. Gosman
Attorney
Milwaukee
Edward J. Heiser
Attorney
Milwaukee
Patrick B. Howell
Attorney
Milwaukee
Jerard J. Jensen
Attorney
Madison
Lindsey M. Johnson
Attorney
Milwaukee
Lisa R. Lange
Attorney
Madison
Lynda R. Templen
Attorney
Milwaukee
Marci VanAdestine
Attorney
Milwaukee
Kim Marie Wynn
Attorney
Milwaukee
Kim Marie Wynn Attorney Milwaukee kwynn@whdlaw.com

Paralegals

Kate L. Albrecht
Paralegal
Milwaukee
Barbara J. Mueller
Paralegal
Milwaukee
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Special Report: Proposed “American Manufacturing Bond Finance Act” Would Offer an Exciting Opportunity for Small Issue Manufacturing Bonds

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Special Report: Impact of Jobs Act on Tax-Exempt Bonds

Special Report: IRS Releases Guidance Impacting the Ability to Use Draw-Down Bonds for Small Issue (Manufacturing) Bonds and Implications for Midwestern Disaster Area Bonds and Other Exempt Facility Bonds

Real Deal Newsletter: Real Estate Law (Winter 2010)

Real Deal Newsletter: Real Estate Law (Fall 2009)

Special Report: The Internal Revenue Service Allocates Nearly $1 Billion in Tax-Exempt Tribal Economic Development Bonds to Indian Country

Special Report: $2B in Allocations for Volume Cap of Tax-Exempt Tribal Economic Development Bonds Made Available to Indian Tribal Governments

Real Deal Newsletter: Real Estate Law (Summer 2009)

Cynthia Buchko and Karen Tidwall to present at ALFA International 2013 Business Litigation Practice Group Seminar

Patrick Coffey to present to Ohio Hospital Association (OHA): "The False Claims Act—Why is it so Scary?"

Patrick Coffey to present with U.S. Attorney James Santelle at 2013 Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) Annual Conference: "The Enforcement and Compliance Perils Confronting Health Care Providers"

Daniel McGarry Quoted by In Business: "At the End of Your Financial Rope? How to Pull Yourself Up From the Brink of Bankruptcy"

Timothy Posnanski Elected to Board of Directors of Milwaukee Tennis & Education Foundation

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Lynda Templen Quoted in The Business Journal of Milwaukee: "Marcus Tried to Block Downtown Milwaukee Marriott Bond Financing" (premium subscriber access only)

Daniel McGarry Quoted in Credit Union Management Magazine: "Probability of Success"

Daniel Gengtes Quoted by Wisconsin Business Voice: "Bad for Business? The Verdict is Still Out On How Much the Two-Year-Old Dodd-Frank Act Will Impact Banks' Ability to Lend"

Thomas Klancnik Quoted in The Business Journal of Milwaukee: "Milwaukee-Area Developers Tap Disaster Bonds For Projects" (premium subscriber access only)

Hal Karas Quoted in The Business Journal of Milwaukee: "Area Groups Strike Out on Tax Credits" (premium subscriber access only)

Daryl Diesing Authors Wisconsin Chapter of the Book Strategic Alternatives for Distressed Businesses

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Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. Announces 2012 Best Lawyers Listing

Thomas Klancnik Quoted in Mount Pleasant Patch: "Mount Pleasant Committee Approves $7 Million Financing Plan for New YMCA"

Ken Nowakowski to Lead WHD’S Consumer Financial Services Team

WHD Elects Board Members

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