Dickinson, Mackaman, Tyler & Hagen, P.C. is a general practice law firm in Des Moines, Iowa. Our attorneys provide a full range of legal and business counseling services to a client base that includes large corporations, small businesses, governmental entities, and not-for-profit organizations with interests in Iowa.
Dickinson attorneys and staff members have a strong commitment to professional excellence and integrity. We have established long-lasting relationships of trust and confidence with our clients by providing careful legal advice and dedicated service, and we have consistently invested in technologies that allow our attorneys to be more efficient, more effective, and more accessible to clients.
Our success as a firm is a reflection of our commitment to client service and our focus on achieving the best results possible in a cost-effective manner. We consider ourselves teammates in the interest of our clients’ success. Ultimately, our goal is to provide legal services and counseling which enhance the reputation of both the client and the attorney involved.
Whether planning ahead, working through an amicable situation, or addressing complex family challenges, the Dickinson Divorce and Family Law attorneys will work with you to understand your unique situation. Our professionals are strong, compassionate, and skilled in all of the legal facets of divorce and family matters in Iowa. Our lawyers are skilled at not only litigating contested matters but also effectively negotiating settlements. We take the time to get to know you and tailor our representation to address your needs every step of the way.
Our team is well versed in a variety of practice areas including:
Bank Mergers & Acquisitions
Over the past decade Dickinson, Mackaman, Tyler & Hagen, P.C. has been involved in approximately 25-35% of all bank mergers and acquisitions in Iowa.
Banking & Financial Services Law
The banking law attorneys at Dickinson, Mackaman, Tyler & Hagen, P.C. counsel more than 90 banks and financial institutions doing business in Iowa.
Among Iowa-based law firms, we have one of the largest teams of attorneys providing legal services to the state's community banks. The Des Moines, Iowa-based firm is a complete source of legal services for banks and other financial institutions, bankers, and bank directors on a wide range of general legal issues.
Banking Intellectual Property
Intellectual property assets and issues - including trade secrets, proprietary information, company data, trademarks, trade names, licensing, software use, domain names, etc. - are often overlooked by banking institutions. Yet the banking industry is facing unprecedented change, much of which impacts information, intellectual property, and the security and protection of both.
Banking Litigation
Dickinson's banking litigation attorneys represent banks and financial institutions in connection with the enforcement and defense of their rights as lenders in a wide variety of contexts, including state, federal and bankruptcy courts. Our clientele includes not only individuals and institutions who lend in their own right, but indenture trustees dealing with complex issues involving the interpretation and enforcement of bond financing documentation.
Banking Regulatory Compliance
Dickinson's banking regulatory compliance attorneys help financial institutions of all sizes with the myriad regulatory issues they face every day. We have experience with the Iowa Division of Banking, the Iowa Attorney General's Office, the FDIC, the Federal Reserve, and the Office of the Comptroller of Currency.
Bankruptcy, Corporate Restructuring, & Creditors' Rights Law
Dickinson Law’s Bankruptcy, Insolvency, & Creditors' Rights Law attorneys advise, counsel and advocate for our clients in all manner of distressed situations across many industries. Our clients are secured lenders and creditors, servicers, trade creditors, creditor committees, insurers, lessors of real and personal property and purchasers of distressed debt, assets or companies.
Business Formation
The choice of a business organization is one of the earliest and most important decisions facing an entrepreneur. The type of organization affects a business's day-to-day operations, its tax status, and the potential liability of its officers, directors, managers and partners in the event of a lawsuit. Dickinson's business law attorneys take time to learn about clients' new businesses. We carefully explain the pros and cons of each type of business organization available.
Business Law
Dickinson's Des Moines, Iowa-based attorneys have experience in all aspects of the business law practice. We take our role as counselors seriously. Whether a straightforward entity formation or a complex merger, we're engaged throughout the process. We advise our clients and make recommendations only after listening to and understanding our clients' expectations and goals.
Your company's intellectual capital - including information technology, data, trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, domain names and patents ' may be its most valuable asset. If you have an interest in maximizing the value of your company's intellectual property, Dickinson can help by protecting your intellectual property systematically and consistently. Dickinson's intellectual property attorneys are skilled in protecting you or your company's copyrights and intellectual property. We manage intellectual property portfolios for corporations and individuals alike, whether those portfolios consist of a single trade secret or hundreds of copyrights, trademarks, domain names and licensing arrangements. We provide the legal infrastructure and continued support essential to protecting and managing our clients' intellectual property portfolios.
Dickinson's Des Moines, Iowa-based trusts & estates attorneys use a broad variety of techniques and strategies to accomplish our clients' goals, which include protecting assets from creditors, minimizing gift and estate taxes, and motivating beneficiaries to be functional and productive citizens of their communities. Depending on each client's needs, we can assist with just one issue or address the complex needs of a multi-million dollar estate with multiple business interests.
Owners of private and closely held companies have unique estate planning requirements. We counsel owners of these businesses on alternatives for transferring ownership and control to the next generation, and in solving liquidity concerns associated with estate taxes.
We also provide assistance to fiduciaries in the administration of trusts and estates, including providing advice about the construction of wills and trusts, complex issues of fiduciary law, and fiduciary tax issues. Our services also include the preparation of estate and fiduciary income tax returns and representation of fiduciaries in court.
If avoidance of probate is an objective, the firm's trusts and estates attorneys are able to implement many probate avoidance methods so clients' assets and estate plans are not made public by the probate system. If probate is necessary, we have significant probate experience with estates ranging from nominal size to many millions of dollars.
When powers of attorney are inadequate or unavailable for the care and protection of a loved one who can no longer care for himself or herself, a guardianship or conservatorship is generally required. Our attorneys are experienced in assisting guardians and conservators with the creation and administration of guardianships and conservatorships including representation of guardians and conservators before court and preparation of pleadings and annual reports. We frequently serve as attorney representatives for wards as required by Iowa guardianship and conservatorship laws.
Representative Trusts & Estates Law
