Bruce A. Keyes is of counsel and a business lawyer with 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 Environmental Regulation and Real Estate 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.