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Your Law Firm & Business Partner

Hanigan Law Group combines the sophistication of a deeply experienced business and transactional law firm with the agility and focus of a small boutique firm. We work alongside our clients because we understand you need a legal strategy that produces positive results for your business. We work together to get the deal done because your success is our success.

Powered By Experience

Hanigan Law Group was established as a full-service transactional law firm that advises clients across the country ranging in size from life sciences start-ups to sophisticated agricultural processing companies, biorefineries and agricultural cooperatives. We bring the power of niche experience and immerse ourselves in your business strategy to understand your business and your goals.

Energized by Success

Our team of attorneys and administrative professionals at Hanigan Law Group is energized by our clients’ successes. Our combined experience offers sophistication and practicality that allows us to develop customized legal strategies that not only align with values and company culture, but also produce the best results for our clients.

What We Do

Our expertise includes agribusiness, renewable energy, project finance, commercial transactions ranging in size from operational contracts to complex capital expenditure projects, securities transactions representing issuers and investors, banking and corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity offerings, recapitalizations, corporate restructurings, credit facilities representing borrowers and lenders, corporate governance, data protection and data privacy,  and outside general counsel services with an emphasis in the agribusiness and renewable energy industries.

How We Started

Bill Hanigan is the founding partner of Hanigan Law Group.

Bill is a leading renewable energy lawyer and acts as general counsel to biofuels manufacturing companies with more than 1 billion gallons per year of ethanol and biodiesel production. As part of his extensive range of legal experience, Bill has closed financing transactions with the largest banks representing Midwestern agriculture processing. Bill and his business partner, Valerie Bandstra, began practicing law together over twenty-five years ago. 

Valerie Bandstra is a partner in Hanigan Law Group and an experienced corporate attorney with an emphasis in corporate finance and securities law.  Valerie’s prior practice includes roles as in-house counsel to a Fortune 500 Company and securities counsel at Montage Legal Group. Valerie has in-depth experience in commercial transactions for clients ranging in size from closely held private companies to NYSE-listed public companies. 

Regardless of deal size, our clients remain our highest priority, and we focus on producing quality results by understanding their businesses and their future goals for growth and success.

Your Law Firm & Business Partner

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