Chicago-based law firm Much Shelist recently announced the addition of Mary Anne Phelan as a principal in its Real Estate practice group.
Phelan represents real estate companies, investors, businesses with commercial and industrial real estate portfolios, and municipal organizations in a wide variety of real estate transactions.
Her work includes tax assessment valuations, commercial development incentives, government incentives, reclassifications, exemptions, tax parcel divisions, large-scale municipal developments and Tax Increment Financing (TIF). She focuses on helping clients identify, maximize and protect the full potential of their real estate assets, minimize tax liabilities and resolve tax disputes. Phelan has extensive experience representing clients in hearings before review boards, local assessors’ offices, the Illinois Property Tax Appeal Board and circuit courts.
Phelan earned a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame.
