500 N First Street, Suite 8000
P.O. Box 8050
Wausau, WI 54402-8050
Phone: 715.845.4336
Toll Free: 800.477.8050
Fax: 715.845.2718
Services
Focus Teams
Professional Recognition:
Best Lawyers in Americaยฎ, Real Estate Law (2010โpresent)
Teaching Activities
- University of Wisconsin Law School โ Adjunct Faculty Member for Lawyering Skills Course (2008โpresent)
- Wisconsin Bar Association โ Presenter for Build Your Practice series (2009โpresent)
Joe Mella has more than twenty years of experience representing businesses and individuals with real estate sales, acquisitions, and leasing, including title matters, financing and real estate specific tax matters, such as like-kind exchanges.
In addition he counsels individuals and businesses in all aspects of the real estate development process, including zoning, annexations, municipal negotiations, and development agreements.
Joe also has extensive experience representing closely held businesses and individuals with business acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures, including all aspects of transactional due diligence and documentation.
Joe advises health care organizations on single owner and multi-owner health care practice acquisitions and divestitures. He further assists health care practitioners on the legal aspects of facility acquisition, development, and sales. As a business attorney, Joe has extensive experience managing complicated transactions and is a great resource when providing counsel to health care practitioners and organizations on general corporate matters and governance, as well as practice organizational structures. A particular focus is working with health care practitioners and organizations on ownership and practice expansion and transition planning.
Recent engagements include:
- Represented a group of real estate investors in over thirty million dollars worth of real estate divestiture transactions, which included buyer assumption of existing, securitized debt.
- Counseled several groups of real estate investors with existing debt restructurings and work outs.
- Assisted a privately held radio station ownership company in the acquisition of several radio broadcasting facilities throughout the Midwest.
- Represented a publicly held company with a complex title matter clarification arising from rail road right of way claims.
- Assisted several privately held health care services firms with office facility acquisitions and ownership restructuring.
- Provided local counsel representation services to multi-national companies for secured financing transactions.
Joe Mella has more than twenty years of experience representing businesses and individuals with real estate sales, acquisitions, and leasing, including title matters, financing and real estate specific tax matters, such as like-kind exchanges.
In addition he counsels individuals and businesses in all aspects of the real estate development process, including zoning, annexations, municipal negotiations, and development agreements.
Joe also has extensive experience representing closely held businesses and individuals with business acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures, including all aspects of transactional due diligence and documentation.
Joe advises health care organizations on single owner and multi-owner health care practice acquisitions and divestitures. He further assists health care practitioners on the legal aspects of facility acquisition, development, and sales. As a business attorney, Joe has extensive experience managing complicated transactions and is a great resource when providing counsel to health care practitioners and organizations on general corporate matters and governance, as well as practice organizational structures. A particular focus is working with health care practitioners and organizations on ownership and practice expansion and transition planning.
Recent engagements include:
- Represented a group of real estate investors in over thirty million dollars worth of real estate divestiture transactions, which included buyer assumption of existing, securitized debt.
- Counseled several groups of real estate investors with existing debt restructurings and work outs.
- Assisted a privately held radio station ownership company in the acquisition of several radio broadcasting facilities throughout the Midwest.
- Represented a publicly held company with a complex title matter clarification arising from rail road right of way claims.
- Assisted several privately held health care services firms with office facility acquisitions and ownership restructuring.
- Provided local counsel representation services to multi-national companies for secured financing transactions.
Civic Activities
- Central Wausau Progress โ Director (2002โpresent), President (2005โpresent)
- Wausau Area Mobile Meals, Inc. โ Director and Vice President (1996โpresent)
- Wausau Events, Inc. โ Director (2001โpresent), Vice President
- Wausau Region Chamber of Commerce Business Advocacy Committee โ Chairman (2016โpresent)
- Wausau River District, Inc. โ President and member Board of Directors (2003โpresent)
Professional Activities
- Central Wisconsin Board of Realtors โ Member
- Town of Rib Mountain โ Chairman of the Town Board of Zoning Appeals (2000โpresent)
Insights
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Apr 20, 2022 -
Wisconsin Offers New Safe Harbor for Old Access Rights
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Apr 08, 2021 -
Subleasing Poses Up-Front Risks to Landlord and Tenant
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Sep 02, 2020 -
Trump Administration Wades into Residential Real Estate Evictions with Moratorium
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May 21, 2020 -
Wisconsin Announces Residential Renter Assistance, But Details are Scarce
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Apr 30, 2020 -
State Suspends Landlordsโ Ability to Collect Late Fees and Penalties during Health Crisis
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Apr 03, 2020 -
Landlord Considerations in Uncertain Times
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Mar 30, 2020 -
Wisconsin Emergency Orders Increase Restrictions on Landlords
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Mar 26, 2020 -
Remote Online Notarization Now Permitted in Wisconsin
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Oct 23, 2017 -
When Being a Good Neighbor Can Expose You to Liability
Articles
Presentations
- Real Estate โ Use of โLike-Kind Exchangesโ to Defer Capital Gains on Real Estate Sales โ 5/2/06 and 5/9/06
Civic Activities
- Central Wausau Progress โ Director (2002โpresent), President (2005โpresent)
- Wausau Area Mobile Meals, Inc. โ Director and Vice President (1996โpresent)
- Wausau Events, Inc. โ Director (2001โpresent), Vice President
- Wausau Region Chamber of Commerce Business Advocacy Committee โ Chairman (2016โpresent)
- Wausau River District, Inc. โ President and member Board of Directors (2003โpresent)
Professional Activities
- Central Wisconsin Board of Realtors โ Member
- Town of Rib Mountain โ Chairman of the Town Board of Zoning Appeals (2000โpresent)
500 N First Street, Suite 8000
P.O. Box 8050
Wausau, WI 54402-8050
Phone: 715.845.4336
Toll Free: 800.477.8050
Fax: 715.845.2718
Services
Focus Teams
Professional Recognition:
Best Lawyers in Americaยฎ, Real Estate Law (2010โpresent)
Teaching Activities
- University of Wisconsin Law School โ Adjunct Faculty Member for Lawyering Skills Course (2008โpresent)
- Wisconsin Bar Association โ Presenter for Build Your Practice series (2009โpresent)
Education
- B.A. (with distinction), University of Wisconsin โ Madison (1988)
- J.D., University of Wisconsin Law School โ Madison (1991)
Admissions
- Wisconsin Supreme Court
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin