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Practice Areas:

Business Transactions	Banking & Finance	Real Estate
Corporate	Corporate Governance	Investigations
Wealth Planning & Administration	Trusts & Estates

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Howard Gilbert is a partner in the Business Transactions Department of Wildman Harrold. Howard has extensive experience in the real estate industry representing developers, investors and mortgage bankers. Howard has represented major developers in the Chicago metropolitan area and other parts of the U.S.. He has represented developers and investors in complex real estate developments of commercial, industrial and mixed-type projects. Howard also has extensive experience representing individuals and institutions investing in companies needing capital, including both start-up companies and existing companies seeking additional capital. He has acted as counsel to investment bankers serving as merger and acquisition advisors, and to Boards of Directors seeking independent counsel when exercising their fiduciary duties. In addition, he counsels clients on business succession planning, structuring estates, trusts and transfers, and individual and business tax planning.

Education:

Yale Law School, J.D. 1951
University of Chicago, Ph.B, 1947

Publications And Presentations:

• Author, “Unblessed Be the Tie That Binds: The Lorain Journal Case,” Yale Law Journal, 1951.

Professional Associations:

American Bar Association

Chicago Bar Association

Chicago Council of Lawyers

Former board member, Odyssey Inc., RHC/Spacemaster Corporation, Albany Bank & Trust Co.

Former Chairman of the Board, Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center of Chicago

Former trustee, Chicagoland Hospital Council

Bar Admissions:

Illinois