ANDREW R. LAURITZEN

Andrew R. Lauritzen is a shareholder in the Corporate Practice Group in the Milwaukee office. In providing general business counsel to client firms, their executives and owners, he draws on a broad and diversified business law background that makes him uniquely qualified to address the spectrum of issues confronting business clients in the current legal environment.

Along with corporate finance, venture capital, antitrust and general business counseling, Andy’s experience includes numerous mergers and acquisitions. He has represented public and privately held companies in over 100 acquisitions or business sales in a wide variety of industries. As lead corporate counsel in a major acquisition involving two large Wisconsin firms, Andy was among the first to use the “cash merger” technique to acquire a publicly held company, and his acquisition documents were reproduced as model legal forms for such transactions.

Andy has prepared and implemented numerous franchise, representatives and distribution agreements. He organizes joint ventures, negotiates licensing arrangements for both “new” and “old” technology companies and helps structure venture capital and conventional financing, shareholder buyouts and compensation arrangements both for shareholder and non-shareholder managers. He also handles real estate and construction matters and counsels clients on distribution, marketing, executive compensation, ownership succession, corporate governance and other business issues.

In addition to public and family-owned firms, Andy advises many companies either wholly or partially owned by non-U.S. firms on the complexities of doing business in the United States. He also handles legal and tax issues relating to numerous corporate and family foundations and exempt organizations, including community foundations, public charities and several of Wisconsin’s largest private foundations.