Michael W. Hatch is a real estate lawyer and partner in the firm’s national Real Estate Practice, which he chaired from 1989 to 2006, and is also a member of the Senior Living and Health Care Industry Teams. 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, East Point Commons, The North End, University Club Tower, Cathedral Place, The Kenilworth Project, 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.