Jessica M. Zeratsky

Jessica M. Zeratsky is a business lawyer and Member in Dykema’s Milwaukee office and chairs the firm’s UCC Committee. She represents financial institutions, lenders, secured and unsecured creditors, public and private businesses, and government authorities. Her work covers commercial and creditor rights, banking and commercial finance, public finance, bankruptcy and restructuring, real estate matters, and general debtor-creditor issues. She helps clients structure transactions and respond to financial challenges with practical planning.

Jessica earned her J.D. from Marquette University Law School and a B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Minnesota. Her academic background supports work that requires careful legal analysis, attention to transaction structure, and an understanding of financing relationships. That training complements a practice involving complex loan arrangements, distressed situations, and business matters in which documentation, negotiation, and risk allocation are central to the client’s goals.

Jessica devotes substantial time to structuring, documenting, negotiating, and closing commercial finance transactions nationwide. Her experience includes revolving credit and term loans, asset-based loans, tax-exempt financings, real estate acquisition and construction loans, commercial mortgage-backed securities loans, private placements, syndicated loans, and SBA loans. She also counsels clients through workouts, debt refinancing, creditor-debtor litigation, asset acquisitions and dispositions, restructurings, reorganizations, liquidations, and insolvency matters.

Jessica M. Zeratsky is admitted in Wisconsin and has received recognition for banking and finance work, including listings in The Best Lawyers in America. Her professional approach emphasizes detail, communication, and collaboration so legal strategy remains connected to client objectives. She also contributes to community leadership through board and council service. Her combination of transactional finance, creditors’ rights, and restructuring experience gives businesses and lenders practical support across routine and distressed financial matters.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Dykema Gossett PLLC
• Member, State Bar of Wisconsin
• Board Member, Penfield Children’s Center
• Women’s Leadership Council Co-Chair, United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County

Licensed State

• Wisconsin

Education

• Marquette University Law School
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• University of Minnesota
  Bachelor of Arts (BA) Summa Cum Laude

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