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Carl R. Kugler is the managing shareholder in Madison where he leads the office's Corporate Law Practice. His experience includes a wide range of general corporate and commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, and the formation, development and financing of startup and emerging growth companies. Carl brings extensive experience counseling software, health care, manufacturing and consumer products companies, with an emphasis on commercial and transactionalal matters.

Carl counsels public and private corporations and other business entities on a wide variety of organizational, commercial, transactional and governance matters. He serves in an outside general counsel capacity for a number of closely-held Midwestern businesses, with an emphasis on providing business-oriented legal solutions.

Carl primarily serves clients in the following areas:

  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Private Equity, Venture Capital and Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
  • Commercial and Transactional Matters
  • Business Counseling

Carl enjoys outdoor activities, sports of all kinds, history, travel and spending time with his wife and college-age sons.

Education

  • J.D., cum laude, University of Wisconsin Law School (Order of the Coif)
  • B.A., University of Virginia

Bar Admissions

Wisconsin

Honors & Affiliations

Honors

  • Best Lawyers in America (Mergers and Acquisitions Law)
  • Selected for inclusion in Wisconsin Super Lawyers® - Rising Stars
Affiliations
  • One Community Bank (Board of Directors)
  • Boys and Girls Club of Dane County, Inc.
  • Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
  • Downtown Madison, Inc.

News & Insights

Presentations

  • Frequently lectures on transactional and product distribution matters.

Publications

  • Co-author, Business Law section of the Annual Survey of Wisconsin Law