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| Donald A. Shindler
Managing Senior Counsel
 Donald A. Shindler concentrates his practice in hospitality, energy, transactional and corporate real estate, and construction and financing transactions. He has represented numerous institutional, corporate, and entrepreneurial entities in connection with real estate, hospitality and energy-related transactions, financing, development, leasing, management and structuring of entities for investment in development, management and financing of real estate, and arbitration and mediation of real estate-related disputes.
Mr. Shindler has spoken extensively before Bar and industry groups in connection with real estate matters and has written numerous articles on the subject. He also is involved with a number of community and charitable organizations.
Mr. Shindler has been selected as a Leading Lawyer in Illinois in the practice categories of Real Estate Finance and Real Estate - Commercial. He has been designated an Illinois Super Lawyer in Real Estate, as the result of research projects conducted jointly by Law & Politics and Chicago magazines. He is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) in Louisiana.
Prior to joining Brown, Udell, Pomerantz & Delrahim, Ltd., Mr. Shindler was a partner in the Real Estate Department of DLA Piper LLP (US) and one of its predecessor firms, Rudnick & Wolfe.
Publications
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Co-author, "Slicing the Rebate Pie - a Discussion and Suggestion," Lodging, December 2000
Presentations and Seminars
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Moderator, Practicing Law Institute Webinar "Hotel Management Agreements in a Distressed Economy", June 16, 2010.
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Moderator, Practicing Law Institute Webinar "Hotel Workouts and Restructures", February 22, 2010.
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Speaker, 2010 National CLE Conference January 6-10, 2010, Vail, CO "The Landlord and Tenant in These Difficult Economic Times and the Call for Green Leases".
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Panelist "Conflicts in Practice - An Historical Perspective" and Panelist "Checking in and Out: Special Issues in the Origination and Workout of Hotel Loans", American College of Mortgage Attorneys, Fall Conference, Scottsdale, AZ, October 2009.
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Co-chair, Moderator and Speaker, Practicing Law Institute Annual Hotels Seminars, 2006-2009, New York City.
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Participant, 2009 Management Contracts Roundtable, The Center for Hospitality Research at Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, Ithaca, New York, May 3 and 4, 2009. The deliberations and roundtable discussions on elements, strategies and issues surrounding hotel management contracts will be summarized in a white paper to be produced and distributed by The Center for Hospitality Research.
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Panelist, "An Ethics Triumvirate: Cicero, Sir Thomas More and Abraham Lincoln," American College of Mortgage Attorneys Fall Conference, New Orleans, October 2008
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Speaker, "Acquiring, Financing, and Converting a Hotel to a Hotel Condominium," LEI National CLE Conference, Snowmass Village, Aspen, CO, January 2006
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Speaker, "The Latest Trend in Lodging - The Condominium Hotel," LEI National CLE Conference, Snowmass Village, Aspen, CO, January 2005
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Panelist, "Ethics Involving Financial Crisis Negotiations," American College of Mortgage Attorneys Annual Meeting, October 2005
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Guest Lecturer, "Legal, Regulatory and Funding Tools and the Role of an Attorney in Advising Real Estate Developers," Chicago School of Real Estate, Walter E. Heller Graduate School of Business at Roosevelt University
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Panelist, "Fiduciary Duty in Purchasing," Winter Meeting of the American Hotel and Motel Association, Chicago, IL, 2001
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Seminar Speaker, presentation entitled "Succession Planning for Real Estate Entrepreneurs," Fall Meeting of the Urban Land Institute
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Seminar Speaker, presentations on Loan Documentation, Closings, and Due Diligence and Legal Opinions for seminar on Commercial Lending Requirements and Loan Documentation in Illinois, Lorman Education Series
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Seminar Speaker, presentation entitled "Problem Solving re: Mold and Indoor Air Quality," International Association of Attorneys and Executives in Corporate Real Estate (AECRE)
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Seminar Speaker, presentation entitled "Illinois Land Trusts: Litigation, Contracts and the Magic Words," for Real Estate Committee of the Young Lawyers Section of the Chicago Bar Association
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Columnist, Real Estate News, Merrill's Illinois Legal Times, and Corporate Legal Times
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Seminar Speaker: Practicing Law Institute, Chicago Bar Association, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, American Bar Association, ULI, NACORE, AECRE, BOMA, Lorman Education Services and PESI
Professional and Community Activities
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American College of Mortgage Attorneys - Member, Board of Regents; Chair, Membership Development Committee
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American Bar Association
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Chicago Bar Association
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Louisiana State Bar Association
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The Urban Land Institute (ULI); ULI Chicago District Council Steering Committee
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International Association of Attorneys and Executives in Corporate Real Estate (AECRE) - Member, Board of Directors 2002-08
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Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago, Board Member, 2008-10
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Past General Counsel, Feeding America (formerly known as America's Second Harvest), 1998-2000
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Zoning Board of Appeals/Zoning Commission, Village of Glencoe, Illinois 1992-98
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Library Board, Village of Glencoe, Illinois 1981-87, President 1986-87
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Plan Commissioner, Village of Glencoe, Illinois 1986-87
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Trevian Soccer Club, Co-Founder, Director and Treasurer, 1984-87
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Registered Illinois Real Estate Broker
Bar Admissions & Memberships
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Illinois
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Louisiana
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United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
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United States Tax Court
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United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Education
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Law School: J.D., Tulane University
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Order of the Coif
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Tulane Law Review
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Tulane Moot Court Board
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Undergraduate: B.S.B.A. with final honors, Washington University in St. Louis
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Beta Gamma Sigma
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