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Andrew J. Guzikowski

Bankruptcy
von Briesen & Roper, S.C.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202-4427

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About Andrew J. Guzikowski

Andy Guzikowski is a Shareholder and the Chair of the Public Finance Section at the firm.

Andy has over 25 years of public finance experience. He has represented bond issuers, borrowers, underwriters, bond purchasers, remarketing agents, and banks/credit enhancement providers in over $500 million of tax-exempt bond issues that financed municipal equipment purchases, sewers, new schools, and school improvements, as well as manufacturing facilities, nursing homes, and senior living facilities. He frequently serves as the Public Finance Authority's issuer's counsel in bond issues, and he has represented the PFA in over $750 million of tax-exempt and taxable bond issues financing a wide range of projects across the United States.

Andy is also a partner in the firm's Banking and Commercial Transactions practice. He advises financial industry clients on corporate and holding company reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, branch purchases and sales, loan and servicing portfolio sales, loan participations, and the structuring and restructuring of complex commercial lending transactions. He also represents clients before regulatory agencies such as the Wisconsin DFI, the FDIC, the Federal Reserve, the SEC, and FINRA. Structure, negotiate, and document interest rate swaps, letters of credit, securities lending, and repo transactions. He has also advised banks, credit unions, savings institutions, broker-dealers, and registered investment advisers on FDIC and NCUA deposit insurance rules, regulatory capital requirements, and other regulatory and compliance issues.

Finally, Andy's experience as a member of the Business and Corporate law group includes advising clients in a variety of industries on corporate governance, securities, and merger and acquisition transactions. He assists clients in raising capital through IPOs, private equity, and debt offerings, and has represented clients in venture capital investment transactions, among other things. Andy counsels boards of directors of both public and private companies on matters such as fiduciary duties, corporate governance, anti-takeover measures and other responses to takeover offers, insider trading and ethics policies, the use of investment advisers and appraisers, the design and implementation of equity-based executive compensation plans, shareholder relations, and risk management.

Andy speaks frequently on a variety of topics, including advising boards of directors on corporate "best practices," Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank, insider trading laws, and the role of Board Committees. He is a contributing author to the State Bar of Wisconsin's The Wisconsin Business Advisor Series Vol. 9: General Business Issues, where he discusses obtaining financing through venture capital and private equity investment. Andy recently spoke on a panel at the annual Bond Attorneys' Workshop of the National Association of Bond Lawyers, where he discussed the use of multijurisdictional bond issuers in education and other tax-exempt financings.