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Graaskamp Patron Advisory Board

Dean E. Parker

Dean Parker

Partner

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

Dean Parker is one of the firm’s senior practitioners in the fields of real estate and commercial law. Over his extensive career, he has represented a wide array of institutions, business corporations, entrepreneurial organizations and individuals, with particular emphasis in the real estate and nonprofit sectors.

Mr. Parker’s broad expertise in real estate is relied upon extensively by clients in acquisitions and dispositions, development, leasing, financing, governmental entitlements and dispute resolution.   Over the past decade, he has also developed a niche in representation of nonprofit organizations involved in the 811 (Call Before You Dig) underground damage prevention industry.

Mr. Parker joined Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP in June 1979. He is an emeritus leader of the firm’s Commercial Transactions Practice, providing guidance for the group’s attorneys in a number of disciplines, including real estate, corporate law, commercial transactions, insolvency and estate planning . He is also a past regional director of the firm.

Dean’s professional memberships include the American Bar Association, the Wisconsin State Bar Association and ICSC.