Andrew Barnes has a business law practice, with an emphasis on commercial financings, out-of-court restructurings and business bankruptcies.

• Mr. Barnes regularly represents borrowers, lenders, agents and others in complex financing transactions, including multicurrency cross-border syndicated loans, asset securitization programs, interest rate protection agreements and other financial transactions.
  
  
• Mr. Barnes litigates preferences, fraudulent transfers, cash collateral, post-petition financing agreements, asset sales, executory contract and lease matters, conversion motions, secured and unsecured claims disputes, plan of reorganization and disclosure statement issues, and other matters in bankruptcy courts throughout the United States. Mr. Barnes has extensive experience in workouts and Chapter 11 reorganizations as counsel to secured creditors, unsecured creditors, bond trustees, lenders' syndicate agents, and landlords.
  
  
• Mr. Barnes was lead special bankruptcy counsel for APW Ltd. in its successful two-month prepackaged Ch. 11 bankruptcy reorganization of $1.3 billion of assets (2002), lead general bankruptcy counsel for P.A. Bergner & Co. in its successful reorganization of $1.2 billion of assets (1991-1993), and lead general bankruptcy counsel for Prange Way, Inc. in its successful two-month prepackaged Ch. 11 bankruptcy (1995).

• University of Wisconsin Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1975)
  Wisconsin Law Review, Member 1973-1975; Board of Editors, 1974-1975.
  
• University of Pennsylvania (B.A., 1967)
  Degree: Economics.
  

Wisconsin, 1975

U.S. Supreme Court, 1980
U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit, 1977
U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin, 1975
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin, 1975

Martindale-Hubbell AV^® Peer Review Rated.

Listed in The Best Lawyers in America^® (1989-present: Banking Law, Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law).

Named the Best Lawyers’ 2010 Milwaukee Banking Lawyer of the Year.

Selected for inclusion in the 2005-2010 Wisconsin Super Lawyers^® lists (Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights).

Named on multiple occasions as one of Milwaukee’s “Best Lawyers” by Milwaukee Magazine.

Member: American Bar Association (Member, Business Law Section Committee on Legal Opinions, 1991- ); Member, Business Bankruptcy Committee, 1995- ; State Bar of Wisconsin (Board of Directors, Bankruptcy Insolvency and Creditors Rights Section, 1995 - 1998; Member, Standard Forms of Legal Opinion Committee, 1992- ; Member, Business Law Section Committee to Review Revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, 1999-2001 ; Member, Rules of Negotiation Forum, 1999-2000); Milwaukee Bar Association (Member, Bankruptcy Section Local Rules Committee, 1991-1992); United States Law Firm Group (Member, Creditors Rights Committee, 1993- ).