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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