Michael W. (Mick) Hatch

Michael W. (Mick) Hatch

Michael W. Hatch is a partner in the firm's Real Estate Practice, which he chaired from 1989 to 2006. He has been with the real estate group in the Milwaukee office since joining the firm in 1974, and he has practiced extensively in the areas of real estate development, finance, restructuring and workouts, brownfields and other urban redevelopment, public/private partnerships, syndication, historic rehabilitation, real estate investment trusts, and investment analysis. He has been lead counsel for several billion dollars of real estate transactions, including Milwaukee Center, the largest commercial development in Milwaukee; East Point Commons, the largest residential development in Milwaukee; University Club Tower, the tallest condominium tower in Wisconsin; Cathedral Place, the largest mixed-use (including residential) development in Milwaukee; The Kenilworth Project, the largest mixed-use redevelopment in Milwaukee; Menomonee Valley Partners, Inc., a nonprofit, public private partnership working to redevelop the largest Brownfield in Wisconsin; and the purchase (and later the sale) of the Firstar Center (n/k/a U.S. Bank Center), the tallest building in Wisconsin, in what was the largest real estate transaction in Wisconsin.

A native of New Lebanon, New York, Mr. Hatch is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate in economics from St. Lawrence University, where he was the Eastern College Athletic Conference Scholar-Athlete of 1971, and an honors graduate of Yale Law School, where his law school thesis examined and critiqued real estate investment trusts.

Mr. Hatch is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, the American College of Mortgage Attorneys, the Urban Land Institute, the National Multi Housing Council, the Wisconsin Mortgage Bankers Association, the Building Owners and Managers Association, NAIOP, the Commercial Association of Realtors of Wisconsin, the American, New York, Wisconsin, and Milwaukee Bar Associations, and numerous other professional and civic organizations. He also is included in Who's Who in American Law and The Best Lawyers in America® (since 1987), as well as Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers. In addition, he has received the highest performance rating from Martindale-Hubbell. He was selected for inclusion in the Wisconsin Super Lawyers® lists (2005-2008) for his work in real estate.