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Phone Number: 608-661-4520
Email Address: jbartzen@neiderboucher.com
Jeff began practice as a lawyer in 1991 as Legal Counsel to Wisconsin Governor Tommy G. Thompson.
In 2006, Jeff also helped establish, with Jerry Kramer and Mike Ditka, Gridiron Greats Assistance Fund, Inc., a non-profit organization to assist retired NFL players and their families in need.
Jeff’s practice currently focuses in three main areas: business, real estate and banking. Jeff also advises on estate planning and family business succession issues, as well as employment and intellectual property.
Business Practice
Jeff’s practice, among other areas, covers:
- Bank loan structures, financing, work out agreements and cybersecurity
- Bank bond work (lender side)
- Business acquisitions, mergers, conversions, sales and purchases, and family succession planning
- Business operations including employment, capital structures and loans, contracts
- Business intellectual property issues, such as negotiating license agreements, assignments, CRADA, research and grant agreements, government lab agreements.
- Trademark and copyright law
- Franchise and Fair Dealership law
- Covenants not to compete and solicit
- Related tax law
- Regulatory and license issues
- Employment Law Issues
- Tax Planning
Real Estate Practice
- Real estate finance and TIF agreements
- Development and other agreements
- Purchase and sale agreements
- Working with government agencies for subdivision and certified survey work
- Cell tower agreements
- Commercial lease work (landlord and tenant side), including evictions
- Section 1031 Agreements
- Covenants, easements and other land use agreements
- Real estate financing agreements
PLACE OF BIRTH:
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
PRACTICING SINCE:
1991
EDUCATION:
J.D. 1991, University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A. 1985, Music Education and History (double major), Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin
OTHER:
Member: Montee Ball’s The Path to Recovery Fund, Inc., Board of Directors and Secretary
Member: Wisconsin Bankers Association
Member: Wisconsin Realtors Association; Member of Forms Drafting Committee
Member: Wisconsin State Bar Association
Member: American Bar Association
Instructor UW Small Business Development Center Tax Workshop (since 2000)
Co-Founder and former President, Mike Ditka’s Gridiron Greats Assistance Fund, Inc., 2006-2014
Former Deputy and Chief Counsel to Governor Tommy G. Thompson, 1991-1993
PROUDEST ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
- Becoming a Dad to my children
- Co-founding Gridiron Greats with Jerry Kramer
- Chief Legal Counsel to Governor Tommy G. Thompson
GUIDING MOTTO:
Do the right thing; do your best; give back