Daniel S. Galligan

Corporate & M and A Attorney

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Daniel S. Galligan

Mr. Galligan began his law career at the Milwaukee based law firm, Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren S.C.  After six years with that firm, he joined the Milwaukee business law firm Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. (now known as Husch Blackwell).  At WHD, he attained the status of a shareholder in that firm’s Corporate and Business Practice groups.

In 2010, Mr. Galligan partnered with his friend and former colleague Steven Mayer to form Mayer Galligan Law, LLC.

Accomplishments

Admission(s)

  • State Bar of Wisconsin

Education

  • Marquette University Graduate School of Business, Masters of Business Administration (MBA), with honors, 2000
  • Marquette University Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1999
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison, B.A. in International Relations and Political Science, 1992
    Awards and Distinctions

     

    Representative Work

    • Regularly helps owners decide what to do with his or her business at retirement.  Sell?  Transfer to “insider” (e.g. children, managers, etc.)? Hire professional manager(s)?  Other options?
    • Helped two entrepreneurs start new business venture on their kitchen table.  Sold that company approximately four years later for $100,000,000+. Assisted them in all aspects of business enterprise throughout its start-up, growth and exit/sale.
    • Regularly represents owners in business purchases and sales, with transactions ranging from the small ($500,000) to extremely large ($100,000,000+, as described above).
    • Represented numerous professional service firms (ex. law firms, accounting firms, professional engineering firms) in purchasing and selling office locations and/or other practices.  Also, negotiated the agreement(s) governing the legal relationship among the owners of such professional service firms.
    • Represented numerous diverse businesses and business owners in buying and selling companies (mergers and acquisitions).
    • Represented numerous companies in attaining financing through traditional lending sources and through angel and private equity financing sources.
    • Represented business entities (corporations, LLCs, partnerships and nonstock/nonprofit entities) in a wide array of other corporate matters including corporate governance issues, employee and executive compensation, tax, choice of entity and entity capitalization issues, and in reviewing, negotiating and drafting other business contracts and agreements, both general and complex.

    Professional Associations

    • American Bar Association
    • Milwaukee Bar Association, Business and Banking Law Division Co-Chair (June 2007-2008)
    • Wisconsin State Bar Association, Subcommittee on Potential Revision of Chapter 183 (2009)
    Daniel S. Galligan

    Daniel S. Galligan

    414-326-9455

    dgalligan@mgbusinesslaw.com

     

    Finally, a law firm where business owners and entrepreneurs can place their trust.

    Mayer Galligan Law

    We strive to be the Milwaukee area’s best business and business succession planning attorneys.

    Practice Areas

    – Corporate
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    – Estate
    – Succession

    Office

    790 North Milwaukee Street, Suite 200 Milwaukee, WI 53202

    Dan : 414.982.4010
    Steve : 414.224.9455