Steven A. Schumeister
Experience
- Practice focuses on commercial real estate, corporate and real estate finance and includes the representation of national and regional developers and tenants, lenders, pension fiduciaries, corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, individuals and other entities.
- Transactions include asset based lending, commercial real estate lending, acquisitions, sales, leases, and participation loans.
- Has been involved in all aspects of commercial real estate, including industrial, retail, office, multifamily, and hotel transactions.
- Practice includes the negotiation, documentation and closing of complex financing, acquisition, development, leasing, and sale transactions.
- Experience includes structuring of acquisition and financing transactions, acquisition of complex debt transactions, drafting and negotiation of acquisition and financing documents, development and exclusivity restrictions, evaluation and resolution of site, development, and environmental issues, and drafting of reciprocal easement agreements.
- Member of the Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. Diversity Committee.
Outside Experience
- Heads Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi's private charitable foundation.
Selected Transactions*
Lead lawyer on consumer electronics retailer Best Buy’s entry into major metropolitan markets, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C.
Lead real estate lawyer on Best Buy's acquisition of Future Shop stores.
Lead lawyer on series of complex debt acquisition transactions.
Recognition
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America 2010 Edition**
- Listed on Lawdragon's 100 Managing Partners You Need to Know list (2008)**
Memberships
- Hennepin County Bar Association
- International Council of Shopping Centers
- Minnesota State Bar Association
- National Association of Industrial and Office Parks
Civic Associations
- Legal Rights Center, Director and President
- Fund for the Legal Aid Society, Director
Bar Admissions
- Minnesota
- U.S. District Court, Minnesota
Education
- William Mitchell College of Law, J.D. (1976)
- University of Minnesota, B.A.
Selected Speeches
- Frequent speaker at Continuing Legal Education courses