David A. Meisinger

Biography

David A. Meisinger’s practice generally includes the regulatory and transactional areas of the utility industry, which has meant counseling clients as diverse as large industrial concerns, the parents and various utility and nonutility subsidiaries of Fortune 500 utility holding company systems, private equity firms, large and mid-size regulated and unregulated utilities, independent power producers, power and gas marketers, renewable energy developers and municipal water utilities.

Mr. Meisinger regularly partners with these and other types of clients on a variety of matters ranging from all aspects of Wisconsin utility law; representation before the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, including administrative hearings and appeals; strategic advice relating to M&A and other transactions throughout the United States; negotiating and obtaining approvals for transactions which relate to the state and federal energy and utility industries; organizing and managing significant teams of lawyers and non-lawyers in all elements of complex transactions under demanding time constraints; developing approaches for obtaining state or federal regulatory approvals and/or for obtaining quick or novel relief under critical path circumstances; working with regulatory staff to determine how best to achieve a client’s needs within existing financial constraints and time lines; and various other administrative, transactional and litigation matters in several regulated and unregulated sectors in Wisconsin and throughout the country.

He earned his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1997, graduating cum laude and Order of the Coif. He also received a B.A. in Economics, with a minor in Philosophy, cum laude, from the University of Minnesota . Mr. Meisinger joined GSH’s Milwaukee office as a partner after ten years in Foley & Lardner LLP’s utility industry and energy regulatory practice in Milwaukee. Before that, Mr. Meisinger also practiced in Boston, Massachusetts and in western Colorado.

Mr. Meisinger is admitted to practice in Wisconsin, the Eastern and Western Federal District Courts of Wisconsin, and the Seventh Circuit.

Education & Bar Admissions

Education

• University of Wisconsin Law School, J.D., cum laude, Order of the Coif
• University of Minnesota, B.A., cum laude, Economics, Minor in Philosophy

Bar Admissions

• Wisconsin
• U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit

In the News

• 11/3/2010 - Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan welcomes David A. Meisinger as Partner