Overview
John has more than 30 years of experience representing companies, business owners, investors and other individuals, as well as tax exempt organizations. Clients appreciate his pragmatic approach and his ability to focus on the task at hand. He assists with business law matters including business formations, corporate governance, obtaining start-up and ongoing debt and equity financing, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, business succession planning, commercial transactions, and joint venture, supply, distribution, employment and other contractual arrangements. He also has extensive experience in commercial and residential real estate sale, purchase and leasing transactions.
Many of John's clients are in the health care industry. He represents physicians and dentists, physician and dental groups and managed care organizations. Corporate health care law is highly regulated and dynamic, but John enjoys the challenge and finds it rewarding to work with those in the health care industry.
Membership & Involvement
Member: Waukesha County Bar Association
Honors
- Selected to The Best Lawyers in America© in Corporate Law: 2021, 2022
- Happy Public Domain Day!Happy Public Domain Day!
Public Domain Day is one of the lesser known winter holidays celebrated by the elite few – artists of all sorts and copyright attorneys. We either mourn the passing of works into the public domain after decades of keeping them safe and warm or hail the expiration of long-held copyrights in anticipation of new, insightful, adaptive, and creative uses of these works and characters.
- The Challenge of Serving in Black Robes, Not White Coats: The Second District Affirms the Denial of Patients’ Requests for IvermectinThe Challenge of Serving in Black Robes, Not White Coats: The Second District Affirms the Denial of Patients’ Requests for Ivermectin
Read Edna McLain’s recent article, “The Challenge of Serving in Black Robes, Not White Coats: The Second District Affirms the Denial of Patients’ Requests for Ivermectin” in IDC Quarterly!
- Hold the Phones: State-level Telemarketing Laws In EffectHold the Phones: State-level Telemarketing Laws In Effect
Keep up to date with both the federal TCPA requirements and several state-level statutes!
- Illinois Pre-Judgment Interest Statute Declared UnconstitutionalIllinois Pre-Judgment Interest Statute Declared Unconstitutional
On May 27, 2022, Judge Marcia Maras in the Circuit Court of Cook County issued a memorandum, holding Illinois’s recently enacted prejudgment interest statute unconstitutional, and holding that the legislation violated both the right of trial by jury and the prohibition against special legislation.
Services
Education
University of Wisconsin Madison Law School, J.D.
St. Norbert College, B.A.
Admissions
- Wisconsin
- Illinois