GISLASON & HUNTER ATTORNEYS AT LAW - Key Persons
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- Attorney
- Attorney / New Ulm, Minnesota
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- Attorney
- Attorney / Mankato, Minnesota
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- Business Owner
- Dentist
- Managing Partner
- Attorney / Mankato, Minnesota
Andrew M. Tatge is the Managing Partner of Gislason & Hunter LLP and leads the firm's family law practice group. In his law practice, Andrew represents business owners, farmers, professionals (doctors, lawyers, accountants, dentists, etc.)-or their spouses-and other individuals throughout Minnesota in a wide range of family law matters, including handling all aspects of complex and high net worth divorces and negotiating antenuptial and postnuptial agreements. With a knack for seeing the big picture and helping clients make good choices, Andrew tirelessly works to resolve matters with his clients' long-term best interests in mind.
While Andrew is far and away most proud of the many successful results he has achieved for clients outside of the courtroom-many times before a court case is even filed-he has also achieved significant success in motion practice, in trial, and on appeal, including having successfully argued significant family law cases before the Minnesota Court of Appeals and the Minnesota Supreme Court. Andrew enjoys solving complex and difficult issues and guiding his clients through what for many is the most emotional and difficult time of their lives. In addition to representing his clients, Andrew is a frequent lecturer on complex family law issues to both local and national audiences and co-authors the Financial Issues in Farm Divorce chapter of the Minnesota Family Law Financial Deskbook. His recent presentations include:
Farm Divorce Basics, Minnesota State Bar Association Family Law Section
Divorce for Farmers, National Business Institute
Divorce Law: Common Mistakes in Dividing Assets, National Business Institute
Financial Tracing in Divorce, National Business Institute
Dividing Assets in Divorce: The Ultimate Guide, National Business Institute
Family Law Case Management for Paralegals, Institute for Paralegal Education
Advanced Divorce: Your Top Questions Answered, National Business Institute
Child and Spousal Support: The Ultimate Legal Guide, National Business Institute
Divorce Law from A to Z, National Business Institute
Negotiating Divorce Settlements, National Business Institute
Dividing Trust Assets in Divorce, National Business Institute
Clients with significant assets, a farm, or other business appreciate Andrews's finance background and experience representing other businesses and business owners, along with his significant knowledge of farm, real estate, business valuation, accounting, and finance principles. Andrew also represents unmarried individuals in custody and parenting time matters, as well as those entering into cohabitation agreements to protect assets and income.
No matter what kind of case Andrew is handling, he understands and appreciates clients' concerns about the cost of legal services and utilizes his experienced staff and other attorneys in the firm to ensure that your financial resources are used efficiently and appropriately, and that the right person is doing the job.
Andrew provides a full range of personal legal services for his and the firm's Minnesota clients, including:
Andrew Tatge's experience representing clients in farm divorces is too extensive to list. In addition to teaching other attorneys throughout the country how to handle farm divorces, Andrew's family law practice is significantly devoted to representing clients whose assets include farms, farm property, and other agricultural businesses ranging in value from a few hundred thousand dollars to over one hundred million dollars. Andrew has represented grain farmers, livestock producers, and owners of other agriculture-related entities (or their spouses) in arriving at a fair and equitable division of marital property, as well as drafting antenuptial agreements to avoid the potential for disputes later in the marriage. Many of his farm divorce cases have involved significant nonmarital tracing claims, spousal maintenance claims, and complex tax or other issues. When appropriate, Andrew has devised and utilized unique and novel ways to keep farm operations intact post-divorce so that both parties can move on with life and the farm can be handed down to the next generation. Andrew has also successfully represented numerous clients in child custody, parenting time and child support disputes involving farms and farm families.
Andrew Tatge has represented owners of various businesses and professional practices in divorce and family law matters. Andrew has represented manufacturing company owners, dentists, doctors, accountants, bankers, pharmacists, chiropractors, engineers, lawyers, tech entrepreneurs, real estate professionals, construction company owners, insurance agents, investment advisors, and has handled divorces involving a number of other privately owned businesses. Andrew's experience in finance, accounting, and business valuation principles assists in guiding clients through the process quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively. In many cases, he assists clients in reaching agreements without the need for expensive expert witness assistance. Andrew is acutely aware of a business owner's need to maintain the confidentiality of their business and financial affairs and works to protect the public disclosure of sensitive information.
Andrew Tatge has successfully argued before both the Minnesota Court of Appeals and the Minnesota Supreme Court. In several matters, he has successfully negotiated a settlement while appeals were pending.
Andrew Tatge regularly assists clients in negotiating and drafting antenuptial and postnuptial agreements to protect pre-marital assets and assist in providing greater certainty for married parties in the event of divorce or upon a spouse's death. Although still relatively rare in Minnesota, Andrew has experience drafting and negotiating cohabitation agreements, including agreements involving substantial assets, interstate and jurisdictional issues, and unique maintenance and payout-related agreements.
Andrew Tatge represented husband, a shareholder in several family-owned businesses, in divorce involving minor children. Secured significant parenting time, waiver of spousal maintenance by spouse, and requested disposition of assets, including marital and non-marital assets.
Andrew Tatge secured temporary order for wife of business owner including no-contact order granting wife homestead, custody and requiring husband to pay for all expenses of wife on an ongoing basis.
Andrew Tatge represented dentist in marriage without children; secured stipulated resolution without mediation allowing client to retain all interests in practice and avoid spousal maintenance.
Andrew Tatge represented farmer and business owner with pre-marriage assets of $1 million protecting assets, inheritance and securing waiver of future spousal maintenance.
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- Attorney
- Partner
- Attorney / Mankato, Minnesota
- Member of Gislason & Hunter 's Family Law & Divorce Practice Group
Brittany King-Asamoa, a partner of Gislason & Hunter, focuses her practice on labor and employment law and civil litigation. She enjoys helping companies, agribusinesses and human resource professionals navigate the intricacies of employment law. King-Asamoa takes great pride in her work litigating employment claims and counseling employers on employment laws, compliance and best practices. She frequently presents and writes articles on new laws impacting businesses in the areas of employment, business and agriculture.
King-Asamoa received her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Arkansas School of Law. She received her Master of Business Administration and Bachelor of Science in Human Resources Management degrees from the Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Outside of her legal practice, King-Asamoa joyously spends her time chasing her two young children with her husband.
Areas of Expertise
Agriculture Law & Agribusiness
Brittany King-Asamoa is experienced with the administrative proceedings involving an employment charge filed with the EEOC and Minnesota Department of Human Rights. She has assisted in the defending against charges and represented employers in EEOC conciliation proceedings, as well as respond to requests for information during EEOC investigations.
Brittany King-Asamoa has valued experience performing workplace investigations regarding reports of discrimination, sexual harassment, and general non-compliance with employment laws. She takes great pride in performing these investigations with an eye toward counseling employers and management about compliance issues, as well assisting employers in identifying problem areas and solutions.
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- Business Development and Marketing Manager
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- Attorney
- Attorney / Mankato, Minnesota
Christine Barkley focuses her practice on family law. She is dedicated to helping families reach long-term solutions by working collaboratively. Christine understands that family law matters involve some of the most stressful moments in people's lives and approaches each with compassion while strategically and logically moving toward her client's end goal.
She earned her Juris Doctor from the University of St. Thomas School of Law and is a graduate of St. Olaf College with a Bachelor of Arts. Prior to coming to Gislason & Hunter, she clerked for a judge in Southern Minnesota for 18 months. In that position, Christine observed a variety of cases and gained valuable experience. During law school, she worked at the Hennepin County Family Court assisting self-represented litigants through the challenging and sometimes overwhelming family court system.
In her free time, Christine enjoys time with her family, being outdoors and coaching a local high school mock trial team.
Areas of Expertise
Family Law
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- Attorney
- Partner
- Attorney / New Ulm, Minnesota
Chris Bowler, a partner at Gislason & Hunter, is based out of the New Ulm office. He provides both litigation and transactional services to individuals and businesses-primarily those engaged in the fields of finance and banking, agriculture and agribusiness. These services cover a variety of areas of law, including business and corporate law, real estate law and laws governing secured lending.
Chris Bowler has assisted in the collection of secured and unsecured commercial and agricultural debts ranging in value from tens of thousands to millions of dollars. Chris' collections experience includes pre-litigation case assessments; foreclosures by advertisement; drafting complaints and commencing lawsuits; early motions, such as replevin and foreclosure motions; discovery matters, including written discovery, depositions, and discovery motions; dispositive motions; and post-judgment collection efforts.
Chris Bowler has performed extensive research and other work related to the Packers and Stockyards Act-a federal antitrust statute directed at the livestock industry. Chris' experience with the Packers and Stockyards Act includes advising clients as to potential risks under the Act and co-authoring a law review article was published in the Mitchell Hamline Law Review. Read Article
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- Attorney
- Partner
- Attorney / Mankato, Minnesota
Chris Kamath, a partner at Gislason & Hunter LLP, focuses his practice in the areas of trusts and estates, business and corporate law and real estate. As a member of our Estate Planning Practice Group, he routinely guides clients through complex family dynamics, tax and business succession issues. Representative clients include individuals, farmers, closely-held businesses and large manufacturing companies.
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- Attorney
- Partner
- Chairman of Gislason & Hunter 's Employment
Cory Genelin, a partner at Gislason & Hunter, combines his knowledge of the law with common sense and leadership experience. His practice includes civil litigation, labor and employment law, business and corporate law and finance and banking law.
Cory serves as the Chair of Gislason & Hunter's Employment, Labor and Benefits Practice Group. As the employment and general counsel for numerous Southern Minnesota businesses, he keeps operations running smoothly by producing policies, handbooks and checklists along with the training to implement them all.
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- Attorney
- Partner
- Attorney / New Ulm, Minnesota
Dan Schwartz, a partner at Gislason & Hunter, has focused expertise as a business attorney. He began his career with a large Minneapolis-based law firm, representing financial institutions, cooperatives and other businesses in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, private placements, bankruptcy and creditors' remedies, secured transactions, business formation, corporate governance and commercial litigation.
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- Attorney
- Attorney / Mankato, Minnesota
- Dealer Agreement and Sales Representative
David Kim represented an electric automobile company in the U.S. in conjunction with its joint venture for the production and distribution of electric buses in a $400 million project by negotiating and drafting Shareholders Agreement for the joint venture.
David Kim represented a bioengineering company in a reverse triangular merger for its acquisition of target stock, regulatory clearance, and minority shareholder claim resolutions by negotiating and drafting the Agreement and Plan of Merger and all related documents and instruments.
David Kim represented a client in a reverse triangular merger for its acquisition of the world's biggest DNA gene cloning and storage services provider.
David Kim represented a client in a $60 million asset acquisition for domestic production assets by negotiating and drafting the Letter of Intent, Memorandum of Understanding and Asset Purchase Agreement therefor, and performing due diligence, the Hart-Scott-Rodino clearance, WARN Act compliance, permitting process and post-closing litigation.
David Kim represented a client in an $80 million asset acquisition in conjunction with the competitive bidding process, leading the initial negotiations with the seller and seller's investment bankers and attorneys, drafting the Letter of Intent and performing due diligence in three states in the U.S. and advising the client in conjunction with a Section 363 Sale proceeding.
David Kim represented a majority shareholder client in a shareholder dispute involving $30 million equity investment, leading the matter to a favorable settlement and negotiating and drafting a Release and Settlement Agreement.
David Kim represented a client in procuring and administering overseas production capacities through Technology Licensing and Manufacturing Agreements, together with advising client for foreign government permitting process and clearing the U.S. export control laws and regulations.
David Kim represented a joint venture formed by U.S. investors for a foreign asset investment in over $20 million, advising on the formation and administration of the joint venture, the formation and registration of its foreign subsidiaries and its U.S. tax reporting compliance.
David Kim represented a group of banks and financial organizations in a dispute on the ownership of the source code used to build their financial transaction platforms online.
David Kim represented a client in conjunction with a dispute regarding partnership loss allocation for tax purposes and application of the at-risk rules and substantial economic effect rules.
David Kim represents clients in registering and managing trademark portfolio with over 600 trademarks; work includes trademark application, prosecution with examiners, trademark opposition proceedings, Section 8&15 Acknowledgements and Declarations, Section 8&9 Declarations and Renewals and trademark Cease and Desist notices and litigation.
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- Attorney
- Attorney / New Ulm, Minnesota
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- Attorney
- Partner
- Attorney / New Ulm, Minnesota
Dean Zimmerli has been involved in several appeals to the Minnesota Court of Appeals concerning agricultural producers and environmental law and permitting issues. For example, Dean researched complex areas of water regulation under the Federal Clean Water Act and assisted in briefing questions about the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's ability to regulate farming and irrigation practices as part of a stream improvement project. Dean Zimmerli has also defended a new swine facility that was approved by the County board but opposed by a vocal minority of nearby landowners in a case before the Minnesota Court of Appeals. Dean has assisted farmers in responding to administrative orders from the DNR and other governmental entities.
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- Attorney
- Chairman of the Board of Directors of Citizens Bank Minnesota
Dustan currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Citizens Bank Minnesota and its holding company, Citizens Bancorporation of New Ulm, Inc. He is a member of the American Agricultural Law Association, the American Bar Association's Agricultural and Corporate Litigation Sections and past president of the Ninth District Bar Association, New Ulm Library Board, New Ulm Country Club and the New Ulm Economic Development Corporation.
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- Attorney
- Attorney / Mankato, Minnesota
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- Mergers & Acquisitions / General Counsel Services