Nelson H. Howe is an experienced transactional and real estate attorney with over twenty-five years of experience in corporate mergers and acquisitions and commercial real estate financing.  In addition, throughout his career, Mr. Howe has represented grantors, trusts and guardianships/conservatorships concerning investments and other trust administration matters; handles probate administration; and advises clients on estate planning, asset protection and family succession planning.  He has served as in‑house counsel for a regional banking institution handling matters related to deposits, collections, and consumer and commercial loans, concentrating primarily on commercial lending for secured and unsecured real estate, construction, commercial and subdivision development loans.  He has also served as counsel to many for-profit and not-for-profit corporations, both publicly and privately held, in the manufacturing, retail, wholesale, buildings products, petroleum distribution and insurance services industries engaging in contracting work and a variety of commercial and real estate transactions.

Primary Practice Areas

• Banking
• Real Estate
• General Corporate (Contracts)
• Commercial/Real Estate Lending
• Estate Planning

Bar Admissions

• Supreme Court of Missouri, 1979
• Supreme Court of California, 1978

Education and Academic Honors

• J.D. (cum laude), University of San Diego, 1978
• B.S.B.A. (with high distinction) General Business and Marketing, University of Arizona, 1975

Representative Transactions

• Lender's counsel to Gershman Investment Corp. in connection with over $100,000,000 in HUD insured construction loans and refinancings for multi-family and nursing home project.
• Lender's counsel for Bank of America, N.A. in connection with over $100,000,000 in commercial real estate acquisition and office and shopping center developments.
• Real estate counsel for sale of St. Louis University medical facility to Tenet Healthcare Corporation and other miscellaneous hospital sale transactions.
• Lead counsel for the sale of Mineral Area Regionals Medical Center to Community Health Systems.
• General corporate counsel in the formation, acquisitions, operations, contracting, and sale of Group Health Plan.

Representative Clients

• Bank of America, N.A.
• Gershman Investment Corp. ("Gershman Mortgage")
• National City Bank
• St. Louis Bank
• Cross Oil Company
• Froesel Oil Company, Inc.

Professional Affiliations

• American Bar Association
• The Missouri Bar
• The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
• The California Bar
• St. Louis County Bar Association

Employment

• Lashly & Baer, P.C.
  Member, 1984-Present
  Associate, 1979-1984

Military Service

• United States Naval Reserve, 1971-1974
  Honorable Discharge, 1974