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| | Address | | Suite 1500, 150 South Wacker Drive | | Chicago, Illinois 60606 | | (Cook Co.) | |  | Accepts Credit Cards |
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| | Contact Information | | Phone: 312-551-8300 | | Facsimile: 312-551-1101 | | Visit Our Website | | http://www.pfs-law.com | | | | Send Us Email |  |
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| Patzik, Frank & Samotny Ltd. practices in the following areas of law:
Corporate, Federal and State Securities, Federal Taxation, Estate Planning, Real Estate, Patent, Copyright and Trademark, Commercial and Business Law and Litigation, Employment Law, Business Law. | Firm Profile:
Patzik, Frank & Samotny Ltd. represents a variety of clients in connection with a myriad of complex and demanding projects. Formed in 1991, Patzik, Frank & Samotny Ltd. represents public and private corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, investment trusts, financial institutions, brokerage firms, investment banks, entrepreneurs and others. The firm's practice features a broad range of disciplines, including general corporate representation, securities law, federal and state taxation, business acquisition and disposition, public and private debt and equity financing (including private equity and venture capital), real estate acquisition and disposition, patent, trademark and copyright law (including prosecution, counseling and litigation), estate planning, commercial litigation and employment law and litigation. Patzik, Frank & Samotny Ltd. prides itself on being a "results oriented" law firm which focuses on attaining client objectives with an attention to detail and an understanding of the economic, political and interpersonal factors affecting a matter or transaction. | | Firm Size: 28 | Office Hours:
Monday: 08:30 AM - 05:30 PM
Tuesday: 08:30 AM - 05:30 PM
Wednesday: 08:30 AM - 05:30 PM
Thursday: 08:30 AM - 05:30 PM
Friday: 08:30 AM - 05:30 PM
| Rate Information:
Fixed Hourly Rates
Accepts Major Credit Cards
 Visa
MasterCard | | —————————— | | Chadwick I. Buttell (Partner) born Tucson, Arizona, 1968; admitted to bar, 1993, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois. Education: Northwestern University (B.A., Mathematics and Economics, 1990); Illinois Institute of Technology Stuart School of Business (M.B.A., 1993); Chicago-Kent College of Law (J.D., with honors, 1993; LL.M.in Taxation, 1998). Moot Court Society. Member: Chicago (Chair, Federal Tax Committee) and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Business Law; Corporate Law; Securities Law; Mergers and Acquisitions; Taxation; Estate Planning. Email: Chadwick I. Buttell | | Sheryl Jaffee Halpern (Partner) born Park Ridge, Illinois, 1969; admitted to bar, 1993, Illinois, U.S. District Court, Northern and Central Districts of Illinois, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court. Education: University of Illinois (B.A., 1990); Chicago-Kent College of Law (J.D., 1993). Board Member, Moot Court Society. Teaching Assistant, Chicago-Kent College of Law Legal Writing Program, 1992-1993. Member: American Bar Association; Chicago-Lincoln Inn of Court (Executive Board Member); Society for Human Resource Management. Practice Areas: Employment Law; Employment Litigation; Commercial Litigation. Email: Sheryl Jaffee Halpern | | Michael L. Kenaga (Partner) born Chicago, Illinois, 1957; admitted to bar, 1990, Illinois; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Education: DeVry Institute (B.E.E.T., 1979); John Marshall Law School (J.D., 1989). Member, Licensing Executives Society. Member: Chicago (Chairman, IP Committee, 2004-2005; Vice-Chairman, Patent Trademark and Copyright Committee, 2003-2004; Chairman, Patent Subcommittee, 2001-2002) and American Bar Associations; Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (Treasurer, 1997-1999; Chairman, Foreign Patent Committee, 1996-1997; Vice-Chairman, 1994-1996); American Intellectual Property Law Association. Practice Areas: Intellectual Property. Email: Michael L. Kenaga | | Tan H. Le (Partner) born Saigon, Vietnam, 1970; admitted to bar, 1996, Minnesota (inactive); 1999, Illinois. Education: Northwestern University (B.A., 1992); University of Wisconsin (J.D., 1996). Practice Areas: Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Securities; Corporate Law. Email: Tan H. Le | | John W. Morse (Partner) born Olney, Illinois, 1972; admitted to bar, 1998, Illinois. Education: DePauw University (B.A., cum laude, 1995); Northwestern University School of Law (J.D., 1998). Co-Author, "Commercial Real Estate Sale Contracts," IICLE on Commercial Real Estate. Co-Author and Contributor, "Loan Commitment Litigation and the Illinois Credit Agreements Act," IICLE on Real Estate Litigation. Member: Chicago, Illinois State and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Commercial Real Estate; Construction Contracts; Construction Finance; Corporate Finance. Email: John W. Morse | | Kevin M. Noonan (Partner) born Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1969; admitted to bar, 1997, Illinois. Education: University of Cincinnati (B.B.A., 1992); Loyola University, Chicago (J.D., 1997). Member: Chicago and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Estate Planning; Probate Administration; Trust Administration; Tax Exempt Organizations; Private Foundations. Email: Kevin M. Noonan | | Alan B. Patzik (Managing Partner) born Chicago, Illinois, 1959; admitted to bar, 1984, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois. Education: University of Illinois (B.S., in Accounting, with highest honors, 1981); Northwestern University (J.D., 1984). Beta Alpha Psi; Phi Eta Sigma; Phi Beta Gamma. Member: Bronze Tablet-University of Illinois; James Scholar. Certified Public Accountant, Illinois, 1981. Author: "The Model Control Share Statute of the North American Securities Administrators Association," 44 the Business Lawyer 577, 1989; "Strategic Land-Deal Planning," The National Law Journal, Summer, 1989; "Antitakeover Devices Used by REITs and RELPs," Real Estate Review, Fall, 1991. Member: Chicago, Illinois State and American (Member, Sections of: Business Law; Taxation; Real Property) Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Corporate; Mergers and Acquisitions; Finance; Securities; Limited Liability Company Law; Partnership Law. Email: Alan B. Patzik | | Steven M. Prebish (Partner) born Skokie, Illinois, 1965; admitted to bar, 1990, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois. Education: University of Illinois (B.A., 1987; J.D., cum laude, 1990). Member: Chicago, Illinois State and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Mergers and Acquisitions; General Corporate Law; Limited Liability Company Law; Securities Offerings; Securities Regulation; Private Equity; Investment Management; Broker-Dealer Regulation; Secured Lending; Real Estate Finance. Email: Steven M. Prebish | | Phillip Reed (Partner) born St. Louis, Missouri, 1956; admitted to bar, 1984, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois. Education: University of Cincinnati (B.A., with honors, 1980); Northwestern University (J.D., cum laude, 1984). Practice Areas: General Commercial Litigation; Shareholder and Partnership Disputes; Commercial Arbitration; Construction Litigation; Securities Litigation; Products Liability; Tax Litigation. Email: Phillip Reed | | Marc Z. Samotny (Partner) born Chicago, Illinois, 1949; admitted to bar, 1975, Illinois; 1977, U.S. Tax Court. Education: Southern Illinois University (B.S., 1971); John Marshall Law School (J.D., with distinction, 1975). Certified Public Accountant, Illinois, 1974. Adjunct Professor of Law, The John Marshall Law School, 1984-1987. Member: Chicago, Illinois State and American (Member, Taxation Section) Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Business; Corporate; Strategic Alliances; Finance; Real Estate; Private Placement; Estate Planning; Federal Taxation; Partnership Law; Limited Liability Company Law. Email: Marc Z. Samotny | | Max Shaftal (Partner) born Havana, Cuba, 1956; admitted to bar, 1982, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; 1984, U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit; 1986, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; 1986, U.S. Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit; 1987, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan; registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Education: University of Illinois (B.S.C.E., 1978); DePaul University (J.D., 1982). Board Member, Northbrook School District No. 27, 2000-2007. Member, Intellectual Property Law Advisory Board, DePaul College of Law, 2000-2003. Guest Lecturer, Northern Illinois University College of Business, Entrepreneurship Class of 2004. Member: Chicago Bar Association (Member, Executive Board, 2006, 2007, Intellectual Property Law Committee Chair, Young Lawyers Section, 1985-1986); Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (Secretary, 1997-1999; Board Member, 2000-2002). Languages: Spanish. Practice Areas: Patent, Trademark and Copyright; Unfair Competition; Trade Secrets. Email: Max Shaftal | | Joel G. Shapiro (Partner) born Chicago, Illinois, 1961; admitted to bar, 1985, Illinois. Education: Miami University (B.S., 1982); University of Illinois (J.D., magna cum laude, 1985). Certified Public Accountant, Illinois, 1984. Member: Chicago and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Tax; Partnerships; Limited Liability Company Law; Private Equity; General Corporate. Email: Joel G. Shapiro | | James M. Teper (Partner) born Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1962; admitted to bar, 1987, Wisconsin, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois. Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison (B.B.A., 1984; J.D., 1987). Member: State Bar of Wisconsin; American Bar Association. Practice Areas: Real Estate; Commercial Real Estate; Secured Lending; Banks and Banking. Email: James M. Teper | | Gary Irwin Walt (Partner) born Detroit, Michigan, 1957; admitted to bar, 1982, Illinois. Education: University of Michigan, Angell Scholar (B.A., with distinction, 1979); Cornell University (J.D., 1982). Member, Moot Court Board. Member: Chicago, Illinois State and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Corporate; Securities; Real Estate; Partnership; Mergers and Acquisitions; Commercial Workouts; Debtor and Creditor Reorganization. Email: Gary Irwin Walt | | Allan L. Yusim (Partner) born Chicago, Illinois, 1945; admitted to bar, 1970, Illinois. Education: University of Illinois (B.S., 1967; J.D., 1970). Member: Chicago and Illinois State Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Real Estate; Leases and Leasing; Construction Contracts; Estate Planning; Estate and Gift Taxation. Email: Allan L. Yusim | | David J. Schwartz (Partner) born Warsaw, Indiana, 1972; admitted to bar, 1998, Ohio; 2000, Illinois. Education: Liberty University (B.S., Government, magna cum laude, 1995); University of Dayton (J.D., cum laude, 1998). Member: Chicago and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Mergers and Acquisitions; General Corporate Law; Securities Regulation; Securities Offerings; Private Equity; Investment Management; Commodities Regulation; Secured Lending. Email: David J. Schwartz | | Patrick G. Cooke (Partner) born Evergreen Park, Illinois, 1967; admitted to bar, 1995, Illinois, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit and U.S. District Court, Northern, Central and Southern Districts of Illinois. Education: University of Notre Dame (B.A., 1989; J.D., 1995). Member: Illinois State and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Insurance Coverage Litigation; Appellate Practice. Email: Patrick G. Cooke | | —————————— | | Jordan Herzog (Associate) born Chicago, Illinois, 1961; admitted to bar, 1993, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Education: University of Illinois at Urbana (B.S.C.S., 1983); DePaul University (J.D., with honors, 1993). Order of the Coif. Recipient, American Jurisprudence Awards in Constitutional Process, Civil Procedure, Remedies and Commercial Paper. Recipient, Dean's Scholarship. Practice Areas: Intellectual Property. Email: Jordan Herzog | | Natalie Terumi Jones (Associate) born Charlottesville, Virginia, 1981; admitted to bar, 2007, Ohio; 2008, Illinois. Education: Northwestern University (B.A., cum laude, 2002); The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2007); Temple University Law School, Tokyo, Japan (Corporate and International Law). Phi Beta Kappa. Member: Ohio State and American Bar Associations. Languages: Japanese. Practice Areas: Corporate; Securities. Email: Natalie Terumi Jones | | Adam Jung (Associate) born 1981; admitted to bar, 2006, Illinois. Education: University of Illinois (B.S., 2003; J.D., cum laude, 2006). Practice Areas: Corporate Law. Email: Adam Jung | | Michael A. Matteucci (Associate) born Park Ridge, Illinois, 1975; admitted to bar, 2003, Illinois. Education: DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana (B.A., 1998); Loyola University Chicago School of Law (J.D., 2002). Member: Chicago, Illinois State and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Real Estate; Land Use. Email: Michael A. Matteucci | | Kimberly A. Nagle (Associate) born Chicago, Illinois, 1973; admitted to bar, 2001, Illinois, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois and U.S. Tax Court. Education: American University (B.A., Economics and Interdisciplinary Studies, 1995); Case Western Reserve University (J.D., 2001). Member, Jessup International Law Moot Court Team. Executive Editor, Journal of International Law. Member: Chicago and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Taxation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Law. Email: Kimberly A. Nagle | | Louis J. Phillips (Associate) born Melrose Park, Illinois, January 1, 1974; admitted to bar, 2003, Illinois; U.S. District Court, Northern and Central Districts of Illinois. Education: University of Illinois (B.A., 1997); John Marshall Law School (J.D., cum laude, 2003). Student Publication Editor, John Marshall Law Review, 2002-2003. Practice Areas: Commercial; Litigation. Email: Louis J. Phillips | | Scott W. Smilie (Associate) born LaGrange, Illinois, 1971; admitted to bar, 1997, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Education: University of Illinois (B.S.G.E., 1993); Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology (J.D., with honors, 1997). Member, Chicago-Kent Law Review. Member: Chicago Bar Association; Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago. Practice Areas: Patents; Trademarks; Copyrights; Unfair Competition; Trade Secrets. Email: Scott W. Smilie | | Andrew Szot (Associate) born Warren, Michigan, 1974; admitted to bar, 2001, Illinois, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, including Trial Bar and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin. Education: University of Michigan (B.A., with distinction, 1997; J.D., 2000). Member: Chicago and Illinois State bar Associations. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation. Email: Andrew Szot | | Mona Thakkar (Associate) born 1979; admitted to bar, 2004, Illinois. Education: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (B.S., 2001); DePaul University College of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 2004). Languages: Gujarati. Practice Areas: Corporate Law. Email: Mona Thakkar | | —————————— | | Jeffrey H. Frank (Of Counsel) born Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 1952; admitted to bar, 1980, Minnesota; 1981, Illinois; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; 1982, U.S. Tax Court; 1996, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit. Education: Macalester College (B.A., magna cum laude, 1974); University of Minnesota (J.D., cum laude, 1980); New York University (LL.M. in Taxation, 1981). Phi Beta Kappa. Member: Chicago and American (Member, Taxation Section) Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Federal and State Taxation; Partnership Law; Limited Liability Company Law; Corporate; Securities; Real Estate. Email: Jeffrey H. Frank | | Scott M. Curran (Special Counsel) born La Grange, Illinois, 1976; admitted to bar, 2001, Illinois. Education: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (B.A., with distinction, 1998); Chicago-Kent College of Law (J.D., with honors, 2001). Moot Court Honor Society. Member: Chicago and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Business Law; Mergers and Acquisitions; Securities. Email: Scott M. Curran |
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