| Biography | Bruce A. Keyes is a partner in the Business Law Department of Foley & Lardner LLP, where he focuses on transaction counseling and regulatory compliance. Mr. Keyes represents private industry, non-profits and municipalities 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 is a member of the firm's Environmental Regulation and Real Estate Practices and Energy Industry Team. 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, including a 2007 Phoenix Award for Community Impact and for the Menomonee Valley, the 2009 Region V Phoenix Award and national recognition 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 Peer Review Rated as AV® Preeminent™, the highest performance rating in Martindale-Hubbell's peer review rating system and 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., a member of the board of Menomonee Valley Partners, Inc., past president of the Friends of Hank Aaron State Trail, Inc. and has been active in both a charitable and legal capacity with 30th Street Industrial Corridor Corporation since its inception. Mr. Keyes is a 2007 recipient of the Gordon Sinykin Award of Excellence by the State Bar of Wisconsin, shared in a 2007 and 2009 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. |