Bruce A. Keyes is a partner in the Business Law Department of Foley & Lardner LLP, where he focuses on transaction counseling and regulatory compliance. Mr. Keyes represents private industry, non-profits and municipalities in public private land and waterway redevelopment projects. He has put together numerous complex financing transactions, with a particular emphasis on sustainable neighborhoods, Brownfields, facility improvements, waterway improvements, and the retirement of obsolete facilities. Current projects also include urban renewable energy and a broad portfolio of New Market Task Credit financings. Mr. Keyes is a member of the firm’s Real Estate and Environmental Regulation Practices and Energy Industry Team.
Mr. Keyes has provided legal counsel for the two largest urban Brownfield projects in Illinois and Wisconsin, University of Illinois South Campus Redevelopment and redevelopment of the Menomonee Valley in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. These public private redevelopments have each gained award winning recognition, including a 2007 Phoenix Award for Community Impact and for the Menomonee Valley, the 2009 Region V Phoenix Award and national recognition as one of the top ten new developments of 2006.
Mr. Keyes holds a Master of Science in environmental studies from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He earned his J.D. degree in 1990 from the University of Wisconsin Law School, and served as a law clerk in the Eastern District of Wisconsin before coming to Foley.
Mr. Keyes has been Peer Review Rated as AV® Preeminent™, the highest performance rating in Martindale-Hubbell's peer review rating system and has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® in the field of environmental law.
Mr. Keyes is an active member of the following:
- Discovery World, Ltd., Secretary, Board Executive Committee
- Menomonee Valley Partners, Inc., Board Management Committee
- Friends of Hank Aaron State Trail, Inc., Past President, Board Management Committee
- Local Initiative Support Corp., Board Member
- Port of Milwaukee Economic Development Committee
- Policy Committee of Southeastern Wisconsin Watershed Trust, Inc.
- 13-year member of the State of Wisconsin Brownfield Study Group
- 30th Street Industrial Corridor Corporation
- Milwaukee 7 Water Council
Mr. Keyes is a 2007 recipient of the Gordon Sinykin Award of Excellence by the State Bar of Wisconsin, shared in a 2007 and 2009 Phoenix Award and 2007 Milwaukee Awards for Neighborhood Development Innovations. In 2004, he received the Lynford Lardner Community Service Award and was selected as one of the "40 Under Forty" by the Business Journal of Milwaukee.