We work hard to earn your trust.

Buikema & Keune, LLC is a growing law firm devoted to serving the transactional and advisory planning needs of individuals and businesses primarily in the Chicagoland area and throughout the midwest. Our clients range from publicly traded companies to international family owned businesses to entrepreneurial startups. We represent companies in manufacturing, environmental response service and remediation, waste hauling and recycling, moving and storage, transportation, and real estate development.

The foundation of our practice is the relationships we build with our clients. Regardless of the project, our first job is to listen to our clients to make sure we understand their goals. Listening provides us with the information we need to advise our clients on the best strategies from formation through acquisitions and divestitures, as well as succession planning for second and third generation family owned businesses.

Your business is more than a series of transactions and contracts. It’s a creation to which you’ve devoted your time, energy, and resources. Your business deserves a legal team that will treat it with the same respect and care, considering each transaction in the context of your goals for the future.

We look forward to partnering with you for the success of your business, the future of your family, and the realization of your goals.

Why Choose Us

Buikema & Keune, LLC deeply values every client we work with, no matter how limited or extensive their needs. It means something to us when a client places trust in us, and we work hard to earn that trust.

We focus on relationships.
Our attorneys see more than just the transaction or legal problem in front of them. We like to get to know our clients, to understand their businesses, families, needs, and goals. By having a sense of the big picture, we can more effectively serve our clients now, and as their needs arise in the future.
We’re available and responsive.
Few things are more frustrating than having questions and not being able to get answers. We know that in order to have the kind of relationship we want with our clients, we need to be accessible to them and responsive to their questions. We want our clients to know they can rely on us, and that we return calls and emails promptly.
We put our clients first.
Many law firms advertise a “client-centered” philosophy. We make it a central tenet of our practice. Being client-centered means that we listen before we talk, so we can give our clients the service they need in an effective, efficient way.

We offer quality and value together.
Some small firms may not have the level of legal and business experience Buikema & Keune, LLC offers. Larger firms may have the experience, but also have the high overhead and high legal fees to go with it. We have positioned our firm to be able to offer businesses and individuals sophisticated legal experience and knowledge at highly competitive rates, offering our clients the best of both worlds.
We’re focused and experienced.
The attorneys of Buikema & Keune, LLC bring many years of experience to each engagement, whether it is in business and corporate law, real estate, or estate planning. We don’t try to do everything. In this way we can offer a depth of experience in our practice areas to best serve our clients’ needs.

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Meet Our Team

Our experienced attorneys listen to our clients and advise on the choice and implications of a business entity, offer representation with regard to contracts, zoning and real estate needs, and when the time comes, we assist with business succession planning.