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Joseph P. Hildebrandt
Joseph P. Hildebrandt has 30 years of extensive experience
in business law, finance, securities and venture capital.
He is a Partner at Foley & Lardner,
LLP, was founder and chair of the Emerging Companies/Venture Capital
Team and is a member of the firm's Private Equity & Venture Capital
(which he founded and co-chaired), Transactional & Securities, and
Emerging Technologies Practices. In addition to general corporate clients,
he represents and counsels new businesses and developing companies, including
high technology, biotechnology, and other rapid growth companies in matters
of structuring, strategy and venture capital financing. Since participating
in the opening of Foley & Lardner LLP's Madison office in 1976, Joe
has represented clients in over 350 private placement offerings. Outside
of his legal practice, Joe has personally invested in over 50 private companies,
has been a vice president of a small investment brokerage firm, manager
or co-manager of several small venture capital funds or partnerships,
and active in the venture capital community for over 30 years.
Joe has served
by appointment on several Wisconsin Securities Commissioner's committees
and as chairman of the Wisconsin Secretary of State Improvement Committee
and has participated in drafting Wisconsin legislation for partnership,
corporation, LLC, tax credit and securities laws. He was co-organizer
of the Governor's Summit on Venture Capital, co-organizer and president of
the Wisconsin World Trade Center-Madison, Inc., and co-organizer, officer and
director of Downtown Madison Partners, Inc., and The Boys and Girls Club of
Dane County, Inc. He also has been active as president or chairman of the Madison
Repertory Theater, the Red Triangles Foundation, Wisconsin Harvest, Inc., and
Invest Wisconsin, Inc. Joe was awarded the national Lynford Lardner Community
Service Award, the Madison Catholic Women's Club Christian Achievement Award,
and the Madison Community Foundation Individual Excellence Award. Included
in Who's Who in American Law, Joe has received the highest performance rating
in the Martindale-Hubbell national directory of attorneys and was selected
to be listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for the last 10 years.
Joe earned a BS in Finance, Investment and Banking, and his MBA
from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Joe received his JD degree
from Harvard Law School. |
