Mr. Stephens conducts a broad-based commercial real estate practice, representing owners, developers and managers of office, industrial and mixed-use properties, as well as institutional real estate lenders. He offers significant national experience representing both landlords and tenants in the negotiation of complex commercial office, industrial and retail leases. His clients include several of the nation’s most notable industrial developers. He has represented developers and users in some of the largest industrial and distribution center transactions in the Chicago area and around the country.
Mr. Stephens also has considerable experience in land use and zoning issues with municipal authorities throughout the Chicago area and has been successful in using tax increment financing (TIF) and other governmental incentive programs as a method of funding development projects.
In addition to his real estate practice, Mr. Stephens provides general counsel to closely held businesses and their owners.
Mr. Stephens holds a B.A., with honors, from the University of Notre Dame, where he also received his J.D. in 1982. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association.
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Bar Admissions
Illinois, 1983
Education
The University of Notre Dame (B.A., with honors, 1978)
The University of Notre Dame Law School (J.D., 1982)
Professional and Civic Involvement
Member, Omicron Delta Epsilon; Member, Illinois State Bar Association; Member, Chicago Riverwalk Committee; Member, Academy for Global Citizenship Real Estate Committee
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