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Ruder Ware’s Business Transactions practice group works with business organizations, as well as their owners and managers, assisting with the variety of transactions that arise during all phases of the business cycle.  We advise clients on business organization and start-up issues, assist with corporate governance matters, represent both lenders and borrowers in connection with financing transactions, draft and negotiate commercial contracts, design executive compensation and employee benefit plans, manage intellectual property portfolios, assist with securities law compliance, and negotiate commercial real estate transactions.  Our clients range from small businesses just being organized to large, publicly traded corporations.  Our expertise, derived from many years of service to our business clients, allows us to anticipate and formulate solutions to the increasingly complex issues confronting businesses today.  Specific areas of practice include:

• Antitrust & Trade Regulation
• Banking & Financial Institutions
• Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights
• Business Organizations
• Commercial Contracts
• Corporate Finance & Securities
• Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits
• Intellectual Property
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Real Estate & Construction
• Taxation

Some recent examples of transactional services performed by members of our Business Transactions practice group include:

• Assisted a public manufacturing company with a variety of significant financing transactions, which prepared the client to meet maturing obligations and expanded the client’s credit capacity in a cost-effective manner.
• Assisted a building materials conglomerate with the purchase of substantially all of the assets of a closely held manufacturer of windows and window components.
• Assisted a number of bank clients with a variety of complex commercial workouts and foreclosures of classified loans. 
• Assisted a privately held radio station ownership company with the acquisition of four additional radio stations in and around Lansing, Michigan.
• Assisted a variety of clients in connection with sales or acquisitions of commercial real estate.

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As an added service our firm offers no cost electronic legal updates to all interested business professionals.

As part of a full-service law firm, our attorneys provide clients with a one-stop approach to their legal needs.  Ruder Ware, the largest Wisconsin law firm headquartered north of Madison, also provides legal counsel in Litigation & Dispute Resolution; Employment, Benefits & Labor Relations; and Trusts & Estates.