Meltzer Purtill & Stelle LLC

Description

Meltzer, Purtill & Stelle LLC is dedicated to providing high quality, responsive legal services to financial institutions, real estate developers, and the corporate, industrial and retail real estate market. We are business focused and do not undertake consumer transactions. We view ourselves as a resource for our clients, not only to furnish high quality legal services quickly, efficiently and at a reasonable cost, but to advise our clients on material issues and innovative legal opportunities and solutions necessary to maximize the outcome of each matter we undertake.

Our Litigation and Dispute Resolution team is dedicated to vigorously protecting our clients’ interests and to achieving the best legal and business solutions when disputes arise. We also strive to provide the highest quality legal and business advice before disputes arise in order to minimize the likelihood and cost of litigation. Our litigators have decades of experience litigating in both state and federal courts in Illinois and elsewhere. We have successfully represented clients at all stages of litigation, from inception to trial to appeal.

Representation of financial institutions and financial service providers is a core practice area for our law firm. Our lending attorneys are dedicated to providing practical advice to our clients and performing services in a timely and efficient manner. We have experience in all aspects of secured lending including structuring, documentation, workouts, forbearance agreements and creditors rights issues in local, regional and multistate transactions.

Our clients include national, regional and local banks, insurance companies, mezzanine lenders and lead or participating lenders in multi-lender or agency transactions. They look to us not only to draft loan documents, but to find innovative and pragmatic solutions to problems arising in every phase of the lending process. As real estate lawyers with decades of experience, we devise win-win solutions for lender and borrower.

Ray concentrates his practice of law in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, contract negotiation, drafting and review, owner strategic planning through buy-sell agreements, business fractures, and secured lending. With respect to M&A, Ray has worked with numerous closely-held companies on various aspects of acquisition and sale transactions including with respect to purchase and sale agreements, restrictive covenant agreements, and consulting and employment agreements.

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