Overview

Alec also practices in the areas of commercial lending, corporate finance, and mergers and acquisitions. As a lending attorney, he has represented financial institutions and borrowers in a broad range of transactions, including:

  • Secured and unsecured credit transactions of all sizes and types
  • Loan syndications and participations
  • Leveraged buyout financings
  • Reorganizations and workouts
  • Correspondent banking transactions
  • Equipment finance
  • Municipal finance transactions

Alec chairs the Firm’s Banking and Finance subgroup and is a past chair of the firm’s Banking and Financial Services Industry Group.

Experience

Solutions in action

Representative transactions and engagements include:

  • Assisting community and regional banks to establish new hedging programs for their commercial banking customers, including Dodd-Frank compliance and development of form trading documents and credit policies.
  • Assisting a regional bank to establish a commodities hedging program, including preparation of form trading documents, credit policies, and submissions for regulatory approval.
  • Leading a team which prepares and negotiates more than 2,000 derivatives document sets annually for bank clients across the U.S., and for customers and transactions of all sizes and types.
  • Leading the Firm’s High Volume Documentation team, which assists clients with short-term, high-volume, low cost projects. One recent client project was completed for more than 14,000 loan documents at a low flat-fee per document.
  • Representing the private banking group of a large national bank in making customized loans to high-net worth individuals throughout the U.S.
  • Representing a large national bank in administering Medallion Guarantee compliance policies and procedures.
  • Representing the municipal finance group of a national bank in direct purchase and letter of credit backed municipal bond transactions.

Credentials

  • New York University School of Law, Juris Doctor (J.D.), 1994
  • University of Wisconsin - Madison, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance, Investments and Banking, 1991
  • University of Wisconsin - Madison, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), 1990

  • Wisconsin
  • New York

  • Wisconsin Legal 250 – Business Litigation, Wisconsin Law Journal, 2026
  • Corporate Law, Banking and Finance Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, The Midwest’s Best Lawyers©, 2021
  • Abele Catalyst Award, Milwaukee Film, 2019
  • “Leading Lawyers” list, Milwaukee’s M Magazine, 2013 and 2015
  • Leaders in the Law, Wisconsin Law Journal, 2013
  • Presidential Citation, The American School Health Association, 2012
  • Best Lawyers®, Corporate Law; Banking and Finance Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2009-present
  • Inaugural Philanthropic Five Award, United Way, 2008
  • Leading Banking & Finance and Corporate/M&A Lawyer, Chambers USA, 2008-present

Engagement

  • Member, International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.
  • American Bar Association, Section on Business Law, Derivatives and Futures Law Committee
  • American Bar Association, Commercial Finance Committee
  • American Bar Association, Section on Business Law
  • Wisconsin Bar Association

  • American School Health Association Board of Directors
  • Greater Milwaukee Committee Member
  • Milwaukee Art Museum Board of Trustees
  • Milwaukee Film Inc., (Past Board Chair)
  • Skylight Music Theatre Board of Directors (Past President)
  • Ten Chimneys Foundation Board of Trustees
  • The Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Board of Directors
  • Wisconsin Museum of Nature and Culture Board of Directors

 Past Board Positions

  • Bialystock and Bloom (Past President)
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee
  • First Stage Children’s Theater (Past-President)
  • Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Board of Directors
  • Milwaukee Public Museum
  • Milwaukee Shakespeare Company
  • Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
  • Milwaukee World Festival, Inc. (Summerfest)
  • Milwaukee Youth Arts Center (Past Chair)
  • National Association of Health Education Centers (Past President)
  • Piano Arts of Wisconsin
  • Shorewood SEED Foundation
  • Southeast Wisconsin Professional Baseball Park District
  • United Performing Arts Fund (Past Chair)
  • UWM Foundation

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