Office

120 South Riverside Plaza
Suite 1200
Chicago, IL 60606
P 312.876.7124
F 312.876.6224
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Practice

Business Organizations »

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Brandon E. Bell
Partner

Mr. Bell is a Partner is the Firm’s Business Group. His practice focuses on representing publicly and privately held companies in corporate transactions. He has extensive experience in structuring and organizing business entities, and negotiating and documenting a broad range of transactional matters, such as asset and stock sales and acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, buy-sell agreements, operating agreements, partnership agreements, employment agreements and secured loan transactions. He also counsels clients on corporate governance and day-to-day operations issues.

A substantial part of Mr. Bell’s practice involves a proactive “preventive law” approach that helps businesses eliminate legal risks before they turn into costly and time-consuming legal problems. Drawing on his extensive experience in business transactions and advising business owners and boards of directors, Mr. Bell regularly performs “legal audits” of businesses to identify the legal risks that affect the businesses. Mr. Bell then develops solutions that are specifically tailored to the particular needs and circumstances of each business, protecting the business from legal risk to the greatest extent possible.


Professional Activities and Achievements

Mr. Bell is a member of the American Bar Association, Illinois State Bar Association, State Bar of Wisconsin, and Chicago Bar Association. He also participates in “Lawyers in the Classroom,” a legal education project that is co-sponsored by Chicago Public Schools and the Constitutional Rights Foundation. Prior to joining the firm in 1998, Mr. Bell gained valuable business experience as director of operations and general counsel of Hoops, Inc., a Chicago-based chain of upscale fitness facilities.
 

Mr. Bell was named a 2006 Illinois Super Lawyer by Law & Politics Magazine, as recognized by his peers in the Illinois legal community. Only five percent of Illinois attorneys are recognized as Super Lawyers each year.

Publications

Mr. Bell has presented seminars on the subjects of internet legal research and drafting corporate documents.

Education

University of Wisconsin (J.D., 1996)
Oberlin College (B.A., 1992)

Bar Admissions

State of Illinois; State of Wisconsin;