|
Steve Bell is a firm founder and chaired the Real Estate Group from 1996-2007. During Mr. Bell's 35-year legal career, he has dealt with legal problems affecting real estate from a number of different perspectives, including not only the documentation of all manner of real estate transactions but also financial and tax structuring, and litigation, including mortgage foreclosures and workouts. His transactional work includes mortgage financings, sale-leaseback transactions, development, leasing, construction and acquisitions and dispositions of office, industrial, commercial, residential, mixed-use and public properties. Mr. Bell represents clients in a wide variety of businesses, including insurance companies, pension funds, commercial banks and other financial institutions, REITs, and real estate companies and entrepreneurs. He devotes a significant portion of his time to hands-on real estate work, but his broad experience also enables him to oversee a wide range of matters and to ensure that they are handled in the most efficient manner possible. Mr. Bell has lectured for the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education program. He was recently selected by his peers to be included in the 2006 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. | 