JOHN N. NYS
Mr. Nys specializes in a business practice representing individuals, commercial businesses and financial institutions in the areas of banking, bankruptcy and general business law. He advises clients on a broad range of matters from assisting small business owners on day-to-day problems to structuring multi-million-dollar financing and purchase/sale transactions. He is the principal specialist in the firm on bankruptcy law, representing both creditors and debtors in the more sophisticated areas of liquidation and restructuring.
He is a past president of the Minnesota State Bar Association and is a life fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He served on the Minnesota Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board for six years.
He is admitted to practice before all Minnesota and Wisconsin courts, as well as the Federal District Courts in those states, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He is a member of the Eleventh District Bar association, the Minnesota State Bar Association, the American Bar association and the State Bar of Wisconsin.
Mr. Nys graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College and graduated from Stanford University School of Law with a J. D. degree in 1973, the same year he joined the firm. While at Stanford, he was the managing editor of the Stanford Journal of International Studies.