Quarles & Brady LLP

Providers of the highest quality legal services since 1892. Quarles & Brady LLP offers a full array of legal services, helping businesses, governments and individuals find solutions to legal problems affecting entrepreneurial start-ups, international Fortune 500 companies and everything in between. With over 450 attorneys practicing from offices in Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin; Chicago, Illinois; Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona; and Naples, Florida; Quarles & Brady LLP represents a broad range of clients locally, nationally and internationally.

Guidance and Allocations Released for ARRA Recovery Bonds
July 1, 2009
As you know, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ("ARRA") enacted February 17, 2009, included several provisions related to public finance.

Midwestern Disaster Area Bonds Provide Tax-Exempt Financing Opportunities for Private Businesses
July 1, 2009
Midwestern disaster area bonds ("MDA Bonds") were authorized by the Heartland Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2008, and are federally tax-exempt qualified private activity bonds that may be issued to finance qualifying private business projects.

Ashcroft v. Iqbal: The Twombly Sequel -- No "Threadbare Recitals" In Federal Complaints
E. King Poor, Valerie P. Vidal, June 26, 2009
In 2007, the United States Supreme Court decided Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007), which many saw as a major shift in the standard for what must be alleged in complaints for federal court. In Twombly, the Court required a higher standard of pleading in an antitrust case,...