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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...

William Hughes to present at ALFA International 2013 Labor & Employment Practice Group Seminar: "Protecting Company Information and Assets"

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

WHD attorneys to present at State Bar of Wisconsin Health, Labor, and Employment Law Institute (Patrick Coffey, Frank Gumina and Barbara Zabawa)

Douglas Pessefall to present at National Business Institute's CLE seminar: "Tax Exempt Organizations From Start to Finish - Unrelated Business Taxable Income (UBIT)"

James Joyce to present to Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Madison Chapter: "Implications of The America Invents Act: What 'First-to-File' Means for Engineers"

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

Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. Practice Areas Named to the U.S. News - Best Lawyers 2012-2013 "Best Law Firms" Rankings

Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. Announces Its 2013 Best Lawyers Listing

Best Lawyers Names Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. Attorneys Anderson, Halley and Wynn Milwaukee "Lawyers of the Year" for 2013

Lynda Templen Quoted in The Business Journal of Milwaukee: "Clock Ticks on Bonds for Development" (premium subscriber access only)

Lynda Templen Quoted in The Business Journal of Milwaukee: "Building Service Inc. Seeks Disaster Bonds for Pewaukee Purchase"

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

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

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

Jerard Jensen Quoted in BizTimes: "Community Banks on the Upswing, But Face Higher Regulatory Costs"

Daniel Gentges Quoted in Credit Union Times: "New MBL Regs May Increase Underwriting Scrutiny"

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

Lynda Templen, Thomas Klancnik and Lisa Lange Article: "There’s Still Time, but Only $3.5 Billion Left..."