Areas of Practice
With the vast experience of the St. Louis office, combined with the wealth of resources available from the other Sonnenschein offices nationwide and worldwide, the St. Louis office of Sonnenschein is truly a unique environment, both for the level of support and services available to our clients, and in which to practice for our lawyers. Listed below are the St. Louis office practice areas:

• Corporate
• Real Estate
• Tax
• Health Care
• Litigation
• Government Contracts
• Environmental
• Trusts & Estates
• Banking and Corporate Finance
• Intellectual Property & Technology

Corporate
Lawyers in our St. Louis office represent a wide range of business clients in their corporate and securities matters. With many of these clients we serve as general counsel providing complete legal services from transactional representation to counseling and ongoing business advice. These business clients include start up entrepreneurial companies, family owned businesses, employee owned businesses, venture capital financed companies as well as large and medium sized companies that are both publicly and privately held. We have handled mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, secondary offerings, creative preferred stock offerings as well as mezzanine debt and equity offerings and placements.

Real Estate
The Real Estate practice in our St. Louis office has been a major practice area from the beginning. The Real Estate clients served by lawyers in St. Louis are varied and extensive including lenders, developers, major retail and department store companies, real estate investment trusts, agribusiness companies, real estate brokers and agents, investors and corporate clients in their real estate matters. These matters have involved real estate projects and properties located in all parts of the United States. We represent these clients in every aspect of complex real estate activity including: financings, workout and restructurings, sales and acquisitions, development and construction, leasing, joint ventures and partnerships, tax credit developments, REIT roleups, condominium development and conversions, time share developments, and portfolio acquisitions and dispositions. We have dealt with the legal and practical issues related to virtually every type of real estate, including, for example, office buildings, shopping centers, hotels and multi-family residential projects. In conjunction with our health care attorneys we also have extensive experience in the development of health care facilities including congregate care, skilled nursing and senior living facilities.

Tax
The tax lawyers in our St. Louis office concentrate on tax aspects of corporate acquisitions, partnerships and joint ventures, corporate debt restructuring and securitization matters. In addition, our lawyers have extensive experience in all aspects of real estate taxation, including acquisitions, dispositions, like-kind exchanges, other tax-free disposition techniques, leasing, financing and distressed real estate. Clients encompass developers, full-service real estate operating companies, manufacturing and service businesses (including Fortune 500 corporations), real estate funds, public and private pension plans, off-shore investors and high net worth individuals. Our lawyers have represented clients on major rehabilitation tax credit and low income housing tax credit projects. We have also advised issuers and underwriters on numerous securitization transactions involving mortgage loans, consumer receivables, finance leases, auto loans, health care receivables and trade receivables.

Health Care
Sonnenschein has a national health care practice with the St. Louis office serving as a base for servicing clients in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, as well as clients on the East and West Coasts. Sonnenschein's diverse work in the health care area includes representation of major medical centers, managed care operations, long-term care facilities, physicians and physician groups, consultants, medical schools, health care suppliers, and health care insurers. Lawyers in our St. Louis office have represented virtually all of the major hospitals in the St. Louis area on diverse matters, including mergers and acquisitions, financing, integrated delivery system development, Medicare fraud and abuse, and many other issues.

Commercial Litigation
Lawyers in our St. Louis office are highly experienced in handling complex commercial litigation, including cases in areas such as contracts, real estate, environmental, insurance, toxic torts, products liability, health care, and intellectual property and technology. We have handled cases at both the trial and appellate levels in state and federal courts throughout Missouri, Illinois and other states. Our lawyers also have represented clients before state and federal administrative agencies. Our labor and employment lawyers in St. Louis have represented clients across the country on a full range of labor and employment matters and issues, including wrongful termination and discrimination litigation and general human resources concerns.

Government Contracts
Lawyers in our St. Louis office regularly represent major defense contractors on the numerous issues associated with those contracts. In the government contracts area, our St. Louis lawyers work on behalf of The Boeing Company, including the litigation arising from the United States government's termination of its multi-billion dollar contract, for the development and production of the A-12 tactical aircraft.

Environmental
Sonnenschein has a national environmental practice that includes an active St. Louis component. In St. Louis, we regularly represent clients on varied environmental matters, encompassing litigation as well as risk assessment and plans for managing environmental liability, including management of hazardous materials to avoid or minimize liability. Our St. Louis lawyers have extensive experience in all aspects of environmental law, encompassing Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act issues, Superfund and RCRA questions, and matters involving all of the other major environmental statutes and regulations.

Banking and Corporate Finance
Lawyers in our St. Louis office regularly represent banks, insurance companies and corporate and business clients in a wide range of complex financing transactions including securitization transactions, multi-state secured financings, asset based lending financings, and public and private debt offerings.

Trusts and Estates
Sonnenschein lawyers in the St. Louis office have a diverse and substantial trusts and estates practice. Committed to the highest quality and attention to detail in all aspects of our work, we have successfully handled many large and complex projects. The work of this practice group is divided into three main areas: estate planning, estate and trust administration, and estate and trust-related litigation.

Intellectual Property & Technology
St. Louis members of our Intellectual Property and Technology practice provide counsel and assistance to clients facing information and intellectual property issues worldwide. Sonnenschein attorneys have substantial experience representing companies and individuals in copyright and trademark law, libel and defamation law, and in issues relating to the development and production of information, technology, and artistic creations.

Representative Clients

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