David C. McCormack
Información
Attorney Dave McCormack is a partner at Axley with more than 30 years of diverse experience in business law including mergers and acquisitions, land use, corporate organization, employment law, commercial real estate, contract drafting and negotiation, finance, commercial litigation and environmental law. Attorney McCormack has also served several years as an in-house senior counsel for BMO Harris Bank, N.A., where he negotiated finance transactions and drafted loan documentation.
Attorney McCormack has litigated and arbitrated business disputes throughout Wisconsin and Illinois. He has also drafted and enforced employment covenants and lectured on covenants not to compete. Attorney McCormack served on the Metropolitan Builder’s Association’s Mediation and Arbitration Panel and has represented Wisconsin builders in a wide range of legal issues. He emphasizes practical and achievable solutions to the legal problems confronting businesses.
When not helping clients, Attorney McCormack enjoys fly fishing, sporting clays and spending time with his family in Pewaukee and in Door County, Wisconsin.
Admitted to practice in the State Courts of Wisconsin and Illinois, Federal Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin and for the Northern and Central Districts of Illinois.
Educación
J.D., Loyola University of Chicago School of LawB.S., magna cum laude, Loyola University of Chicago
Participación y Reconocimiento
Involvement:
- Counsel, Community Water Services, Inc.
- Counsel, Wisconsin Landscape Contractors Association
- Member, Metropolitan Builder’s Association’s Construction Mediation and Arbitration Panel
- Member, Wisconsin Asphalt Pavement Association
- Member, Wisconsin Aggregate Producers Association
- Member, Member, Wisconsin Transportation Builders Association
- Member, Wisconsin Earth Movers Association
- Member, Wisconsin Ready Mixed Concrete Association
- Member, State Bar of Wisconsin
- Business Law Section
- Construction & Public Contract Law Section
- Environmental Law Section
- Labor & Employment Law Section
- Member, Waukesha Gun Club
Éxitos del Cliente
Represented both employers and employees in actions to enforce covenants not to compete by former employers.
Assisted business in negotiating loans with financial institutions.
Represented lessors and lessees in the drafting and negotiation of numerous commercial leases.
Represented owner of real estate in negotiation of a ground lease for new location for a national restaurant chain.
Represented the purchaser of an environmentally impaired urban manufacturing facility for conversion to a corporate headquarters.
Represented purchaser in the sale of construction product distribution, installation and maintenance business.
Represented owners in the sale of a multi-location retail equipment leasing company.
Represented owner in the sale of a $36M construction product distribution, installation and maintenance business.
Represented landowner and developer in zoning application to build and operate a quarry.
Represented retail business in rezoning and relocation of its store as part of shopping district redevelopment.
Successfully represented the purchaser of an environmentally impaired urban manufacturing facility for conversion to a corporate headquarters.
Advised lenders, developers and property owners regarding brownfields, wetlands and issues pertaining to environmentally impaired property in real estate transactions.
Negotiated and documented hundreds of multi-million dollar equipment lease finance transactions on behalf of a national equipment finance company.
Successfully defended businesses in claims for violation of wage and hours laws.
Obtained summary judgment in favor of a manufacturer in a disability discrimination lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.