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Tim Ahrenhoersterbaeumer represents clients in all types of litigation with an emphasis on commercial matters, insurance coverage, and construction law.  His experience includes prosecuting and defending contractual and tort claims on behalf of businesses, counseling both insurance carriers and policyholders on coverage disputes and representing both general contractors and subcontractors in litigation involving complex construction projects.

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Jeremy Brenner advises employers and managers on all aspects of employment law focused on preventing and avoiding employee disputes. He has served as a strategic business partner to employers for more than 16 years, both as an HR consultant and as an employment attorney. He focuses extensively on cases under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and similar state wage laws and has successfully defended wage and hour matters in state and federal courts across the U.S.

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Alexander (Xander) Curl counsels clients on a variety of transactional matters with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, also frequently assisting with corporate governance and commercial contract matters.

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Brad Cytron is a real estate attorney, helping both public and private entities in the acquisition, development, and disposition of office, retail, multi-family, hotel, and industrial properties. He also represents clients in condominium development, land acquisition and assemblage, subdivision development, zoning and land use planning, tax-deferred exchanges, tenancy in common transactions, commercial leasing, and other real estate and business matters.

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Jim Dankenbring represents businesses in mergers and acquisitions, securities matters, complex contract negotiations, and executive compensation.

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Carl Desenberg is a tax attorney who has spent over 25 years advising clients on transactional tax matters.

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Sherry Dreisewerd helps lenders close complex financial transactions. Sherry works with national, regional, and community banks to originate real estate, commercial, industrial, and asset-based loans.

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Rob Epstein concentrates his practice in the areas of real estate, financial services, corporate, and environmental law. He helps clients resolve their business issues, achieve their goals and plan for the future.

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Jane Fedder is a proven and trusted advocate, advisor, strategist, trial, and appellate attorney specializing in resolving complex environmental enforcement, litigation, and insurance recovery disputes.

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Elizabeth Felker is a corporate and transactional attorney whose practice focuses on business transactions, employee benefits, and executive and deferred compensation. As a member of the firm’s Business Transactions Practice Group, Liz draws on her experience in mergers and acquisitions, corporate formations and reorganizations, and public and private securities offerings to provide effective, pragmatic solutions to clients’ transactional and other business-related needs.

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Jeff Figge practices in the estate planning and business transactions groups. In his business practice, Jeff represents privately held and startup entities on formation, sales and acquisitions, complex contract negotiations and implementation, and various organizational, tax, and corporate succession issues.

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Jason Flower is an environmental attorney with a nationwide practice focused on assisting corporate clients, especially in the chemical, manufacturing, mining, energy, and agricultural industries, with managing their environmental liabilities. Previously serving as the Environmental Practice Group Chair at an AmLaw 100 firm, Jason takes a team-oriented approach to helping clients strategically navigate an increasingly complex environmental regulatory landscape.

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Arthur Gregg helps clients navigate the complexity and uncertainty of litigation. Whether counseling an established corporation or an individual stepping into a courtroom for the very first time, Arthur works with his clients to make sure they are fully informed and best-positioned to obtain a victory at trial.

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Gerry Greiman concentrates his practice in areas of business disputes, trust and estate disputes, and other complex civil litigation. He has handled and won a broad range of cases in various federal and state courts around the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Gerry is skilled and experienced at handling matters at both the trial and appellate levels, and in the alternative dispute resolution context.

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David Harris assists clients in the energy, securities, and health care industries with their most important litigation needs. He has experience representing large integrated energy companies, broker-dealers in securities matters and a broad spectrum of other entities. David brings a valuable combination of trial experience and efficient, practical counsel to his nationwide client base, having defended more than 50 class action lawsuits, including trying class actions to verdict.

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As a privacy professional, Tom Hayde aids clients in developing comprehensive strategies to address information practices and data breach risks, avoid potential claims and liabilities, and ensure compliance with all relevant legal requirements.

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Donn Herring helps hospitals, physicians, and other health care providers with a full range of business and regulatory issues. He focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions in the health care industry, which include physician-hospital joint ventures, physician integration, provider network development, HIPAA compliance program development, and voluntary compliance program development.

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Ed Holderle assists nonprofit organizations, ranging from health and social services organizations to colleges, universities, churches, and other faith-based entities, in the areas of corporate law, transactional law, public finance, and real estate.

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Tom Jerry is a business attorney principally focused on real estate issues and the day-to-day legal needs of business entities and their owners.

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Jay Ji is a member of the firm’s Business Transactions team and helps clients navigate complex legal and regulatory issues so that they can meet the increasing demands of today’s business environment.

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John Klevorn is a transactional attorney, assisting clients in effectively structuring and executing a wide range of corporate and business transactions, and providing responsive, day-to-day legal services that lead to successful operations.

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Rick Lageson has wide-ranging experience as inside and outside counsel to business entities involved in manufacturing, wholesale distribution, health care, financial services, internet services, mining, and the trading and transportation of oil and other commodities.

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Jim Loranger helps businesses with mergers and acquisitions, financing of development projects using tax credit incentive programs, corporate governance, planning, and other business transactions.

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Rob Mahon primarily serves as outside general counsel and lead mergers and acquisitions counsel for clients. He regularly represents private and public companies; family offices, private equity firms, and their portfolio companies; and startups, search funds, and self-funded entrepreneurs, for which he’s handled billions of dollars of transactions.

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Mitchell (“Mitch”) Martin represents businesses of all shapes and sizes. With more than a decade of litigation experience, Mitch relies on lessons from the courtroom to keep his clients out of court. Much of his compliance practice focuses on counseling clients from various industries – including housing, tech, construction, and healthcare – on federal and state privacy laws; proper practices for gathering, using, and protecting personal information; and the legal risks associated with emerging technologies, biometric data, and artificial intelligence (AI).

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Pat McLaughlin has successfully litigated a broad array of disputes at both the trial and appellate court levels in federal and state courts in Missouri, Illinois, and elsewhere. Pat’s practice is focused on resolving, through litigation or otherwise, commercial and business disputes, including contract actions, shareholder disputes, construction and real estate issues, supply chain disputes, and product liability cases, as well as employment, non-compete, unfair competition, trade secret, and intellectual property matters. Pat also has significant experience representing creditors in troubled asset, workout, and collection matters.

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As a trial attorney and civil litigator, Megan Meadows is committed to successfully resolving her clients’ employment, business, and insurance litigation needs.

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Dick Mersman focuses on maximizing the value of his clients’ real estate assets through development, acquisition, financing (conventional, tax exempt, and public incentives), leasing, and ultimately disposition.

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Amy Mistler is a commercial real estate attorney representing developers, investors, lenders, and borrowers in all types of real estate transactions, including the acquisition, development, sale, exchange, financing, and leasing of office, retail, multi-family, and industrial properties.

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John Moore regularly serves as lead corporate and M&A counsel for search fund, private equity-backed, and self-funded entrepreneurs, as well as traditional private equity funds and family offices. Employing his background in economics and strong, sensible legal knowledge, John is adept at formulating strategic plans for clients and managing a team of attorneys and support staff to effectively and efficiently meet his clients’ goals.

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Eric Peterson works in the commercial bankruptcy and receivership fields, including litigation related to commercial financial distress.  He represents investors, financial institutions, business owners, debtor’s, creditor committees, receivers, bankruptcy trustees and other fiduciaries, and large and small companies in maximizing the value of business assets, achieving operational turnarounds, and going concern sales, among other things.  He lead the effort to create the Missouri Commercial Receivership Act and is a founder and president of the national Commercial Receivers Association.  Eric has also served as co-chair of the Missouri Bankruptcy Debtor and Creditor Rights Committee of the Missouri Bar and chair of the Subcommittee on Commercial Receivership.  He is a co-author of the Manual and Practitioners Guidebook for the Missouri Commercial Receivership Act, which is published by the Missouri Bar.

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Len Pranschke assists nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations effectively and in full legal compliance, to carry out their charitable, educational, or religious missions. Len provides advice and assistance in corporate, tax, contract, real estate, governmental regulation, charitable giving and board policies, and governance practices.

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Robb Preston is a seasoned real estate attorney that enjoys helping clients by providing creative, economical and practical solutions to complex real estate problems, with an emphasis on transactions that leverage economic development incentives. His collegiality, experience, and versatility allow him to assist clients in closing thorny transactions and developing valuable relationships with both public and private stakeholders.  By developing lasting relationships with clients, Robb is able to deliver specialized value through personalized strategies and candid counsel.

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Jordan Reimschisel is a member of the firm’s Business Transactions group. His practice is focused on helping clients in all stages of their businesses, from organization to securities offerings to sale or merger.

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As an intellectual property attorney, Glenn Robbins represents clients before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and is involved in prosecution of patent and trademark applications, appeals, patent and trademark litigation, inter partes actions before Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, licensing, client counseling, and copyright matters.

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Brett Sayers counsels businesses and individuals on a variety of matters related to corporate and real estate transactions, developing strategic solutions at all stages of the business life cycle. Combining a vigilant and proactive approach to complex transactional matters, he helps clients navigate the acquisition and sale of real property, commercial and residential leasing transactions, real estate financing, and real estate development.

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Baerbel Schiller, a partner in the Kansas City and St. Louis offices, practices with the firm’s environmental group. Before joining Spencer Fane, Baerbel worked for the Environmental Protection Agency for 15 years in various management positions. At the EPA, Baerbel negotiated and litigated environmental cases arising under Superfund and RCRA and developed national EPA policies on regulating compliance, hazardous waste cleanups, Superfund and RCRA enforcement, and the reuse of contaminated sites.

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Stuart Schmadeke represents clients in insurance coverage disputes and other complex commercial matters, serving as a powerful and effective litigator and providing balanced guidance throughout settlement negotiations and alternative dispute resolution proceedings. Additionally, he advises clients on various business insurance issues, including coverage placement, asset transfers, claim processing, and insurance strategies in bankruptcy matters.

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Catherine “Kate” Schwarze is a member of the firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice group in the firm’s St. Louis office.

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Scot is a partner in the firm’s Banking and Financial Services group. He has over 30 years of experience in advising banks, lenders, and borrowers regarding commercial loans as well as navigating complex regulatory issues his bank and lender clients face in today’s economy. Scot helps his clients stay focused on getting the transaction closed so they can move forward to realize their goals.

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Beth Siemer is a pragmatic health care attorney who advises individuals and organizations navigating complex state and federal laws that govern transactions, compliance, and reimbursement. Working with various providers, payers, benefit managers, and vendors in the health care space, she offers practical tools, actionable advice, and customized solutions that allow her clients to keep the focus on innovating and providing high quality products and services.

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Zackary G. Smith represents public and privately held companies in industries including construction, manufacturing, oil and gas, and real estate with general and complex commercial litigation matters, arbitrations, and administrative proceedings in jurisdictions throughout the country.

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Erik Solverud is an experienced trial lawyer and business litigator, having been involved in a wide variety of complex commercial and business litigation in Missouri and southern Illinois. He has counseled and represented primary and excess insurers and policyholders in insurance coverage disputes and bad faith litigation.

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Ravi Sundara assists mainly tax-exempt organizations with corporate and tax matters, regulatory compliance, deferred and direct charitable giving, and employee benefits.

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Melissa Szymanski helps clients protect wealth and preserve assets through comprehensive strategies intentionally designed to prioritize both immediate and long-term needs. She focuses her practice on the areas of estate planning, tax law, wealth preservation, and general business law.

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Connor Walsh handles all phases of real estate transactions for individuals, companies, developers, builders, property owners, and financial institutions in his private practice, incorporating a collaborative approach to all related legal matters that helps clients keep projects and deals of all sizes on schedule and within budget.

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Jalaine Wheeler is of counsel in the firm’s Real Estate group. She focuses her real estate practice in the areas of commercial and tax credit financed real estate development, including Historic Tax Credits, New Markets Tax Credits, and Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, as well as other development finance incentives such as tax-exempt bonds, tax increment financing, and HUD insured loans. Jalaine has represented developers, investors, borrowers, and lenders in structuring and closing complex real estate transactions.

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Kate Whitby focuses her practice on environmental law, the environmental aspects of real estate transactions, and complex environmental litigation and dispute resolution.

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