Career Highlights
- Served as tax counsel of banking/financial institution and processed $2 Million in real estate tax savings.
- Served as tax counsel of manufacturing conglomerate with industrial operations located in seven states.
- Experience in representing REITs and office building owners/investors relative to highly complex ad valorem taxation issues and proactive strategies related to minimizing tax exposure, including "unique"office buildings in the Chicago Business District/Chicago Loop - Cook County.
- Served as tax counsel of international food processing concern with industrial properties in eight states.
- Served as tax counsel of a major investment firm with commercial and hotel facilities located in fifteen states.
- Assisted in maintenance of Illinois tax exemption certification of a national agricultural organization.
- Application and maintenance related to one of Illinois' largest industrial construction projects for property tax incentive classification in Cook County.
- Processing and maintenance of more than $1 Million in annual real estate tax abatements of the second largest steel producer in the United States.
- Participated in negotiations and obtainment of $2.5 Million in tax refunds for a Fortune 200 corporation for its industrial facility located in an Illinois Enterprise Zone and assisted in the approval of Pollution Control Facility before the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency/Illinois Department of Revenue.
- Successfully reduced assessed value/Machinery & Equipment Tax -Unique to Grundy County, IL Major Food Processing Plant resulting in annual real estate tax savings of $1 Million.
- Generated Numerous Property Tax Incentives for Cook County Industrial and Commercial Real Estate clients generating 10+ years of reduced tax incentives producing tax savings in the Millions.