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Seth E. Dizard
About Seth
Biography
As the head of the firm’s Banking & Creditors’ Rights Practice Group. Seth regularly serves as a court-appointed receiver. He also represents financial institutions, secured and unsecured corporate or individual creditors, and financially troubled corporations in both state and federal courts. He also assists business owners by guiding them through the process of informal financial work-outs and refinancing. Seth has extensive experience serving as court-appointed receiver, and representing court-appointed receivers, throughout the state in assignments for the benefit of creditors (Chapter 128 Receiverships), real estate foreclosures, the wind-up of closely held corporations, and complex post -judgment collection matters. Seth also assists clients with the acquisition or disposition of businesses and/or business assets in insolvency proceedings, as well as representation of both secured and unsecured creditors in bankruptcy proceedings across the country.
Seth Assists Clients With
• Structuring financial transactions and workouts
• Representing financial institutions as well as secured and unsecured corporate or individual creditors in state and federal courts
• Acquisition or disposition of businesses in insolvency proceedings
• Complex post-judgment collection matters
Examples of Seth’s Recent Client Work
• Acting as court-appointed receiver, Seth has handled all aspects of the sale, wind-down, and liquidation of dozens of financially distressed businesses across the state
• Swiftly and efficiently finalized the affairs of a closely held company in his role as receiver by selling a multi-million dollar parcel of partially developed land despite a hotly contested dispute between owners
• Guided a local manufacturing company smoothly and successfully through a situation where the company's key supplier had declared bankruptcy, threatening an interruption in the company's lines of production
• Collected numerous six figure judgements as supplemental receiver
• Served as a Special Master in pending divorce proceeding, whereby he oversaw and administered a multi-million dollar marital estate
Practice Areas
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Licensed in Wisconsin for 28 years
State: Wisconsin
Acquired: 1997
No misconduct found
Location
O'Neil, Cannon, Hollman, DeJong & Laing S.C.
111 E Wisconsin Ave, Suite 1400, Milwaukee, WI, 53202
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Experience
Honors
2019
Best Lawyers in America® (Litigation-Bankruptcy/M&A Law), Best Lawyers
2018
Top 25 Lawyers, Milwaukee Magazine
2018
Best Lawyers in America® (Litigation-Bankruptcy/M&A Law), Best Lawyers
2018
Wisconsin Super Lawyer, Law & Politics Magazine
2018
Wisconsin Super Lawyer, Milwaukee Magazine
2018
Top 50 Lawyers, Milwaukee Magazine
2018
Top 50 Lawyers, Law & Politics Magazine
2018
Top 25 Lawyers, Law & Politics Magazine
2017
Super Lawyer, Wisconsin Super Lawyers
2017
Best Lawyers in America® (Litigation-Bankruptcy/M&A Law), Best Lawyers
2017
Legal Innovator Award Recipient, State Bar of Wisconsin
2016
Wisconsin Super Lawyers, Milwaukee Magazine
2016
Best Lawyers in America® (Litigation-Bankruptcy/M&A Law), Best Lawyers
2015
Wisconsin Super Lawyers, Law & Politics Magazine
2015
Best Lawyers in America® (Litigation-Bankruptcy/M&A Law), Best Lawyers
2014
"Top 50 Lawyers", Law & Politics Magazine
2014
Best Lawyers in America® (Litigation-Bankruptcy/M&A Law), Best Lawyers
2014
Wisconsin Super Lawyers, Law & Politics Magazine
2014
Wisconsin Super Lawyers, Milwaukee Magazine
2014
"Top 25 Lawyers", Law & Politics Magazine
2014
"Top 25 Lawyers", Milwaukee Magazine
2014
"Top 50 Lawyers", Milwaukee Magazine
2013
"Top 50 Lawyers", Milwaukee Magazine
2013
"Top 50 Lawyers", Law & Politics Magazine
2013
"Top 25 Lawyers", Law & Politics Magazine
2013
Best Lawyers in America® (Litigation-Bankruptcy/M&A Law), Best Lawyers
2013
Top Rated Lawyer, American Lawyer Media, Martindale-Hubbell
2013
Wisconsin Super Lawyers, Milwaukee Magazine
2013
Wisconsin Super Lawyers, Law & Politics Magazine
2013
"Top 25 Lawyers", Milwaukee Magazine
2012
Best Lawyers in America® (Litigation-Bankruptcy/M&A Law), Best Lawyers
2012
Wisconsin Super Lawyers, Milwaukee Magazine
2012
Wisconsin Super Lawyers, Law & Politics Magazine
2011
Wisconsin Super Lawyers, Law & Politics Magazine
2011
Wisconsin Super Lawyers, Milwaukee Magazine
2011
Best Lawyers in America® (Litigation-Bankruptcy/M&A Law), Best Lawyers
2010
Wisconsin Super Lawyers, Milwaukee Magazine
2010
Wisconsin Super Lawyers, Law & Politics Magazine
2009
Wisconsin Super Lawyers Rising Stars, Milwaukee Magazine
2009
Wisconsin Super Lawyers Rising Stars, Law & Politics Magazine
2008
Wisconsin Super Lawyers Rising Stars, Milwaukee Magazine
2008
Wisconsin Super Lawyers Rising Stars, Law & Politics Magazine
2007
Wisconsin Super Lawyer Rising Star, Law & Politics Magazine
2007
Wisconsin Super Lawyer Rising Star, Milwaukee Magazine
2006
Wisconsin Super Lawyers Rising Stars, Milwaukee Magazine
2006
Wisconsin Super Lawyers Rising Stars, Law & Politics Magazine
2005
Wisconsin Super Lawyers Rising Stars, Milwaukee Magazine
2005
Wisconsin Super Lawyers Rising Stars, Law & Politics Magazine
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AV Rating, Martindale-Hubbell
N/A
AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
Work Experience
2007 - Present
Shareholder, O'Neil, Cannon, Hollman, DeJong S.C.
1900 - Present
Shareholder, O'Neil, Cannon, Hollman, DeJong & Laing S.C.
2000 - 2007
Associate, Beck, Chaet, Bamberger & Polsky, S.C.
1999 - 2000
Associate, The Schroeder Group, S.C.
1997 - 1999
Associate, Howard, Solochek & Weber, S.C.
Associations
2016 - Present
National Association of Federal Equity ReceiversAssociate Member
State Bar of Wisconsin, Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Creditors' Rights Section
Member
State Bar of Wisconsin, Bench and Bar Committee
Member
American Bankruptcy Institute
Member
Turnaround Management Association
Member
Milwaukee Bar Association, Bankruptcy Section
Chair
Uniform Law Commission
Member
Education
1997
Marquette University Law School
JD - Juris Doctor
1994
University of New Mexico
BA - Bachelor of Arts
Speaking Engagements
2017
Know Your Writes: Next Level Legal Writing
“Email Etiquette” , May 2017
2016
The Legal Ins and Outs of Special Masters and Other Alternative Disputes Resolution Options in Family Court Cases
Speaker, The Role of “Special Masters”: What Makes You Special and Why
2014
Wisconsin Association for Legal Professionals
Demystifying WI Receiverships
2014
National Business Institute
Wisconsin Foreclosures and Work-Outs
2014
Hot Topics for Small Firm and Solo Practitioners seminar
Chapter 128 Receiverships; Overview & Perspectives
Languages
Spanish
English