Bruce A. Keyes

Bruce A. Keyes

Bruce A. Keyes is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP. He is a member of the firm's Environmental Regulation and Real Estate Practices and Energy Industry Team. He focuses on transaction counseling and regulatory compliance. Mr. Keyes represents municipalities, private industry, and non-profits in public private land and waterway redevelopment projects. He has put together numerous complex financing transactions, with a particular emphasis on sustainable neighborhoods, brownfields, facility improvements, waterway improvements, and the retirement of obsolete facilities. Current projects also include urban renewable energy and implementation of the Great Lakes Compact the Great Lakes Legacy Act.

Mr. Keyes has provided legal counsel for the two largest urban brownfield projects in Illinois and Wisconsin, University of Illinois South Campus Redevelopment and redevelopment of the Menomonee Valley in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. These public private redevelopments have each gained award winning recognition, respectively, through the 2007 Phoenix Awards for Community Impact and by the Sierra Club as one of the top ten new developments of 2006.

Mr. Keyes holds a Master of Science in environmental studies from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He earned his J.D. degree in 1990 from the University of Wisconsin Law School, and served as a law clerk in the Eastern District of Wisconsin before coming to Foley.

Mr. Keyes has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® in the field of environmental law. He is a member of the Milwaukee 7 Water Council, serves on the Policy Committee of Southeastern Wisconsin Watershed Trust, and is a 10-year member of the State of Wisconsin Brownfield Study Group. In addition, he is secretary of the board of directors of Discovery World, Inc., past president of the Friends of Hank Aaron State Trail, Inc. and has been active in both a charitable and legal capacity with Menomonee Valley Partners, Inc. and 30th Street Industrial Corridor Corporation since their inception.

Mr. Keyes is a 2007 recipient of the Gordon Sinykin Award of Excellence by the State Bar of Wisconsin and shared in the 2007 Phoenix Award and 2007 Milwaukee Awards for Neighborhood Development Innovations. In 2004, he received the Lynford Lardner Community Service Award and was selected as one of the "40 Under Forty" by the Business Journal of Milwaukee.