Timothy A. "Tim" Nettesheim

About Timothy

Tim Nettesheim is the Chief Executive Officer of N2 Advantage Law, Ltd., where he guides publicly and privately held clients through every stage of the business life cycle, from acquisition to sale. Tim’s passion is structuring and negotiating all aspects of buy-side and sell-side M&A deals, including financial analytics and modeling, sourcing financing and capital, tax analysis, and bringing buyers and sellers together to complete their most important transactions. His team provides clients with a turnkey solution that combines all legal aspects of an M&A deal with business and finance advisory services traditionally provided by investment banking boutiques. Clients choose Tim as their most trusted legal and business advisor, especially when an experienced strategic negotiator is needed. Professionally trained at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, ENS International and the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame, Tim is known for his successful negotiation strategies and uses those skills to guide clients and their boards through every stage of the business lifecycle including: acquisitions, expansion, shareholder buyouts, contracts with vendors and employees, tax planning strategies, negotiating financing transactions, management succession and sales of the businesses. Tim is an author, speaker and teacher for various business and professional organizations including TEC (The Executive Committee), now VISTAGE, State Bar of Wisconsin, Continuing Legal Education of Wisconsin, Lorman and the Wisconsin Institute of Certified Public Accountants. A noted teacher, he is a former adjunct instructor for the highly regarded Graduate Tax Program of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Business Administration, where he taught Corporate Tax Strategies. Tim has also lectured on business law at the University of Wisconsin Law School. He has also authored and presented an innovative negotiation training/coaching program that has been presented to over 500 CEO's and CFO's that include public companies, banks and closely held businesses. He also coaches clients, sales teams and human resource professionals on how to use formal negotiation principles in their day-to-day business activities.

Practice Areas

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Education

• Harvard University, Program on Negotiation
• University of Notre Dame, Executive Certification in Negotiation
• University of the Pacific, Masters of Taxation
• University of the Pacific, Juris Doctor
• University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, B.A., Economics

Bar Admissions

• California, State Bar of
• Wisconsin, 1982

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