Overview
Larry’s commitment to helping businesses thrive comes from his family’s legacy of owning and operating small businesses. His experience growing up around entrepreneurs and working for a family retail business selling mattresses gave him the tools he needs to best serve his clients as an attorney. He understands his clients’ concerns and appreciates their goals and successes.
As a member of the firm’s Banking & Finance Service Group, Larry focuses his practice on commercial lending, real estate and business transactions. It also includes creditors’ rights in litigation, foreclosure and various insolvency proceedings. He also assists with creating, governing and transferring interests in business entities, and negotiating business issues. Larry represents established and start-up businesses with real estate and asset purchase transactions and other financing, leasing, development, contracts and general corporate matters.
Larry’s long term lending clients find that he anticipates their needs as he learns their goals, which creates an efficient working relationship. His small business clients find that he earns their trust quickly and helps them understand the legal parameters of their circumstance. Larry feels connected to his clients' successes and the successes of their customers.
Experience
Membership & Involvement
- Member: Commercial Association of REALTORS Wisconsin; BICR (Bankruptcy Insolvency & Creditors' Rights) State Bar Section; University Club of Milwaukee (2007 – present); Lake Park Friends (2008 – present); Duke University Alumni Admissions Advisory Committee (2004 – present); Turnaround Management Association (TMA)
- Congregation Sinai: Current Board Member, Former Co-Chair Campaign for Tomorrow; Executive Committee Member, Cantor Search Committee
- Former Board Member: Milwaukee Jewish Council for Community Relations
- Former Founding Board Member: Hmong Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce
- Former Board Member: Southeast Asian Educational Development of Wisconsin, Inc.
Honors
- Diverse Business Development Award, Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation: 2020
- Small Business Legal Assistance Award Recipient – Champion of the Year: 2018
- Selected to The Best Lawyers in America® in Corporate Law: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
- Selected to The Best Lawyers in America® in Real Estate Law: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
- Selected to The Best Lawyers in America® in Commercial Finance Law: 2024, 2025
Resources & Insights
In the Media
Alerts
Speaking Engagements
Education on Demand
Join the AD commercial real estate and financial industry attorneys as they walk through the essential legal components that everyone should know when financing real estate-based projects.
Firm News
- 108 Amundsen Davis Attorneys Recognized by Best Lawyers® in 2025 in America108 Amundsen Davis Attorneys Recognized by Best Lawyers® in 2025 in America
We are proud to congratulate 108 of our attorneys on being recognized by Best Lawyers® in 2025 in America.
- 88 Amundsen Davis Attorneys Recognized by Best Lawyers® in 2024 in America88 Amundsen Davis Attorneys Recognized by Best Lawyers® in 2024 in America
We are extremely excited to congratulate 88 of our attorneys on being recognized by Best Lawyers® in 2024 in America.
- Knowing More Than Enough to Be Dangerous: Nuts and Bolts of Real Estate FinancingsKnowing More Than Enough to Be Dangerous: Nuts and Bolts of Real Estate Financings
Join the AD commercial real estate and financial industry attorneys as they walk through the essential legal components that everyone should know when financing real estate-based projects.
Services
Education
University of Wisconsin Law School, J.D., 1995, cum laude
Duke University, B.A., 1988
Admissions
- Wisconsin