Harvey L. Temkin is a shareholder in the firm's Madison office where he concentrates his practice on business law and real estate. Harvey serves business clients and health care clients, in addition to real estate investors, developers and lenders. He has represented hotel developers and investors on a national scale for more than 25 years. He is known for his creative thinking and his ability to understand and help his clients work through challenges to achieve their big-picture objectives. His specialized knowledge and experience, coupled with his relationship with business and government leaders throughout the state, have enabled him to find creative ways to help clients solve problems.  

Harvey served as a law professor for several years at Tulane University. He subsequently taught real estate and business organization at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he continues to lecture. He has also written extensively on topics which range widely from the enforceability of letters of intent in mergers and acquisitions to recent developments in the title insurance industry. Harvey regularly speaks on legal issues to business audiences, and he is a frequent presenter at the firm's Business Breakfast Series conducted through the Madison office. 

Representative Matters and Experience

• Helps clients work through complex financing transactions
• Worked with several clients on taxable-bond transactions with loans of $10 million to $80 million
• Helped a large corporate health care client work through a complicated city and neighborhood process, culminating in the client obtaining all of its government permits and approvals in a timely manner for a major expansion, while forging a strong relationship with its neighbors
• Helps clients defer recognizing taxable gain through his creative problem-solving in the tax-deferred exchange area; frequently lectures about tax-deferred exchanges
• Assists both real estate and other clients in their business planning efforts; helped several of his business clients develop Boards of Advisors for their businesses
• Helps clients work through difficult succession planning issues and helps ensure that the wealth that these clients have built will survive into and beyond the next generation 

Accolades

• Selected for inclusion in Wisconsin Super Lawyers since 2005
• Best Lawyers in America, America's Leading Business Lawyers (Real Estate Law; Land Use & Zoning Law) 
• Best Lawyers’ 2012 Madison Land Use & Zoning Law Lawyer of the Year
• Chambers USA:  America's Leading Lawyers for Business 2008 - 2011
• Fellow, American College of Mortgage Attorneys
• Frequently named one of the top real estate lawyers in Madison's Magazine's Survey of Madison Lawyers
• Wisconsin Top Rated Lawyer Martindale-Hubbell AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated