Charles A. Semmelhack, a member at Defrees & Fiske, concentrates his practice in corporate and real estate transactional law.

Mr. Semmelhack has broad experience in general corporate and commercial law, including stock and asset sales, mergers and acquisitions, combinations, and structuring of companies. He has negotiated and drafted complex commercial contracts, including loan and credit facility documents, manufacturing, employment, distribution, franchising and terms and conditions agreements.

On behalf of his diverse clientele, Mr. Semmelhack has been involved in the creation and documentation of corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships and partnerships. He has extensive experience in equipment leasing and financing, Articles 2 and 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, creditor's rights and bankruptcy law, intellectual property as it pertains to licensing, including computer software, trademark and copyright areas, and antitrust and labor law.

Mr. Semmelhack's extensive real estate practice includes sales and acquisitions, title and survey issues, and negotiating and drafting complex commercial real estate purchase and sale agreements, leases, mortgages, assignments of rents and leases, options and easements. He also has extensive experience in real estate financing and negotiating mortgage loan documents, including commercial mortgage backed securities.

Mr. Semmelhack is a member of the Chicago Bar Association. He is licensed to practice law in Illinois and Wisconsin.

Mr. Semmelhack is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate with distinction from Northwestern University, where he received his B.A. degree in Economics in 1982. He is a cum laude graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, where he received his J.D. degree in 1985 and where he served as a Senior Editor and Writer for the Wisconsin International Law Journal.