Vincent Louwagie, a shareholder of Anthony Ostlund Baer & Louwagie, practices in all areas of commercial litigation, with an emphasis on disputes involving financial transactions, including securities, real estate, shareholder, tax, accounting, and leasing company disputes and on legal disputes between business competitors. Mr. Louwagie represents shareholders and management in corporate governance disputes. He also represents investors, broker-dealers, underwriters, issuers and individual registered representatives in investment-related disputes.
Mr. Louwagie practices in state and federal courts and in various arbitration forums around the country. Mr. Louwagie’s previous experience as an auditor with a major accounting firm enables him to analyze disputes arising out of financial transactions and to view his clients’ legal problems in the context of their businesses.
For several years, Mr. Louwagie has been designated by his peers as a "Super Lawyer" and one of "Minnesota's Top 40 Business Litigation Attorneys." Most recently, Mr. Louwagie was selected as one of Minnesota Lawyer's "Attorney of the Year" for 2008.
Teaching
- Handling Challenging Depositions, 4/6/10, Hennepin County Bar Association
- How to Litigate a Case in Minnesota State Court, 3/3/10, Minnesota State Bar Association Continuing Legal Education
- Twombly & Iqbal: The Death of Notice Pleading?, 2/8/10, Minnesota State Bar Association Civil Litigation Section
- Candid Conversations between the Bench & Bar, 11/5/09, Hennepin County Bar Association
- Business Law 101: The Ongoing Business - Business Opportunities as a Company Asset - 10/16/09, Minnesota State Bar Association
- Handling Challenging Depositions - 10/12/09, Hennepin County Bar Association
- Strategic Discovery: How to Fight Discovery Abuses and Win Discovery Disputes - 5/20/09, Minnesota State Bar Association
- Business Law 103: Business Opportunity as a Company Asset - 8/9/07, Minnesota State Bar Association
- Business Law 102: Divorce Business Style - Litigation among Corporate Shareholders and LLC Members under Sections 302A.751 and 322B.833; 8/16/07, Minnesota State Bar Association
- Business Law 102: Divorce Business Style - Litigation among Corporate Shareholders and LLC Members under Sections 302A.751 and 322B.833; 8/29/06, Minnesota State Bar Association
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act - 5/17/06, Lorman Education Centers (Bloomington, MN)
- Divorce Business Style: Litigation among Corporate Shareholders and LLC Members under Sections 302A.751 and 322B.833 - 3/31/06, Minnesota State Bar Association
- Business 202 Seminar: Divorce, Business Style - 8/3/05, Minnesota State Bar Association
- Business 202: "Divorce, Business Style - Litigation Amongst Corporate Shareholder and LLC Members under Sections 302A.751 and 322B.833" - 8/13/04, Minnesota State Bar Association (MN CLE)
- Fundamentals of Organizing Minnesota Corporations Seminar - 8/7/03, Minnesota State Bar Association
- Arbitration Fundamentals Training/Mock Arbitration: Presentation to a regional securities broker/dealer and its registered representatives - 6/6/03.
- Professional Dilemmas in the Representation of Corporations and Institutions - 4/29/03 (part of an Ethics & Elimination of Bias seminar sponsored by Minnesota CLE).
- Ethics and the Elimination of Bias. Seminar - 3/2003, Minnesota Institute of Legal Education
- The Fundamentals of Organizing Minnesota Corporations - "Planning to Avoid Shareholder Disputes." Seminar - 2002, Minnesota State Bar Association
- Accountants’ Liability. Seminar - 2002, Minnesota Institute of Legal Education
- Brokerage Raiding. Seminar - 2002, Hot Trends in Securities Arbitrations
- The General Practitioner’s Guide to Advising the High-Tech Start-Up Company. Seminar-2001
- Hennepin County Bar Association Fundamentals of Organizing Minnesota Corporations. Seminar - 2001, Minnesota State Bar Association
- Securities Law for Non-Securities Lawyers. Seminar - 2001, Minnesota Institute of Legal Education
- Minority Shareholder Disputes. Seminar - 2001, Minnesota Institute of Legal Education
- Securities Laws Recent Developments. Seminar - 1998, Minnesota Institute of Legal Education
- How to Avoid Spending Time and Money with Lawyers-Compliance Seminar for Registered Representatives. Seminar - 1998
- White Collar Crime: Lying, Cheating & Stealing for Everyone. Seminar - 1995, Minnesota Institute of Legal Education
- Broker/Dealer Compliance Systems and Supervision of Registered Representatives: Issues in Arbitration. Seminar - 1994
Mr. Louwagie has also provided private training to groups of securities brokers and arbitrators relating to securities arbitrations.
Publications
- “Cutting the Cost of Derivative Claims: The Role of the Special Litigation Committee,” Bench & Bar of Minnesota (March 2009, co-authored with Cory D. Olson).
- "Will Counsel Please Take the Stand?," The Hennepin Lawyer (February, 2001)
- "When Abel Sues Cain: How Minority Shareholders Seek Redress for Corporate Wrongs in Light of Wessin v. Archives," The Hennepin Lawyer (September 1999)
- "Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and Investors’ Rights," The Hennepin Lawyer (March-April 1996)
Professional Activities
Mr. Louwagie is a member of the Federal Bar Association, Minnesota State Bar Association (Civil Litigation Section), and the Hennepin County Bar Association, Secretary of the Civil Litigation Section of the Hennepin County Bar Association, and Chair of the Finance and Planning Committee of the Hennepin County Bar Association. Mr. Louwagie serves as an At-Large Director of the Hennepin County Bar Association.
Education
Mr. Louwagie earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota (B.S.B. Accounting) in 1983, and his J.D., cum laude, Order of the Coif from the University of Minnesota in 1988.
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Anthony, Joseph W.
Anthony, Brooke D.
Alton, Larina A.
Awsumb, Shannon
Baer, Norman J.
Brennan, Nathan P.
Dressen, Janel M.
Gullickson, Randy G.
Hartman, Aaron R.
Kaplan, Philip J.
Kerbaugh, Steven C.
Knoblauch, Mary L.
Louwagie, Vincent D.
Merrill, Courtland C.
Moilanen, Robert C.
Olson, Cory D.
Ostlund, Richard T.
Phillips, Steven M.
Pincus, Steven M.
Stanton, Cheryl A.
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