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Michael J. Denker, co-founder and principal of Denker & Muscarello, LLC, was raised in the Chicagoland area. Mr. Denker performed his undergraduate studies at the University of Southern California, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature. During his years at USC, Mr. Denker received numerous honors, including: being inducted into the honor societies of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, and Golden Key; serving as a member of Mortar Board; being elected to the Dean's List each semester; and, as a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, receiving the Fraternity Award for Academic Excellence. Following his graduation from USC, Mr. Denker returned to the Midwest where he attended law school at the Northwestern University School of Law. Mr. Denker was elected to the Dean's List at Northwestern each of his four final semesters and was an active participant in the school's Legal Clinic. He received his Juris Doctorate from Northwestern in 1995. Mr. Denker began his professional career with the long-established Chicago law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson, where his practice was focused in the area of litigation. He left Hinshaw, and his roots as a litigation specialist, to become one of the seven founding attorneys of the Information Technology Group in the Chicago office of Rudnick & Wolfe (n/k/a DLA Piper, currently one of the world's largest law firms). Mr. Denker honed his transactional skills there during the dot com explosion of the middle and late nineties, representing entities ranging in size from small, family-owned businesses to Fortune 500 companies, and in sectors from the health care industry to the telecommunications industry, with respect to their acquisition and/or commercialization of technologies. After a successful tenure at the firm, Mr. Denker took a position at Gordon & Glickson LLC, a mid-sized law firm whose services were directed primarily towards the information technology marketplace. Mr. Denker remained employed with Gordon & Glickson (which later merged into McGuireWoods LLP) until opening a solo practice, Denker Law Offices, in January 2002. After working on his own in 2002, Mr. Denker joined forces with his colleague, Charles Muscarello, in February 2003 and together they formed Denker & Muscarello, LLC. Over the course of his legal career, Mr. Denker has represented businesses from an assortment of the industries that make up the broad spectrum of today's business world, ranging in size from closely held startup ventures to large, multi-national conglomerates. He actively assists clients with all aspects of their general corporate and business law needs, with particular emphasis in buyouts and acquisitions, commercial contracts, general health care matters, and with his background in litigation, provides counsel with respect to dispute resolution and litigation concerning enforcement or defense of contractual and other business obligations. While his practice generally is focused in the area of business transactions, Mr. Denker has particular expertise in commercial transactions involving technology. He has represented hardware and software vendors, telecommunication companies, health care organizations, consulting firms, and other entities in transactions involving matters such as technology acquisition and commercialization, system development, software licensing, provision of services, distribution of products, protection of intellectual property, electronic commerce and other Internet-related matters, privacy concerns, and systems integration. Outside of the office, when not spending time with his wife and two daughters, Mr. Denker can usually be found chasing a little white ball around the nearest golf course or cycling the roads of Kane and DeKalb counties. Education University of Southern California Admissions |
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