Charles E. Valier concentrates in health care finance, commercial lending, real estate finance, corporate merger, acquisition, and finance transactions, and tax-exempt bond financing. He advises a wide variety of business organizations - including not-for-profit and for-profit entities - health care providers, and commercial banks and serves as counsel to participants in a large number of asset acquisitions and mergers. He represents health care providers before State regulatory agencies. Mr. Valier has acted as bond counsel in numerous financings for the industrial development authorities of the City of St. Louis and several surrounding Counties.

Primary Practice Areas

• Corporate Law
• Real Estate Law
• Municipal Bond Law

Bar Admissions

• United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, 1968
• United States District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, 1968
• Supreme Court of Missouri, 1968

Education and Academic Honors

• B.A., Yale University, 1962
• New York University School of Business, 1963-1965
• J.D., University of Missouri, 1968
• Washington University Masters in Liberal Arts program, 2005-Present

Representative Transactions

• Sale of Area Rescue Consortium of Hospitals (ARCH) to Air Methods
• Sale of Group Health Plan to Coventry Corp.
• Purchase of Life Force for Abbott Ambulance
• City of St. Louis Airport Bonds
• State of Missouri, Board of Public Buildings, State Facilities
• Sale of Abbott Ambulance, Inc.

Representative Clients

• Barnes-Jewish Hospital
• St. Louis Children's Hospital
• Saint Louis University
• BJC Health System
• Gershman Investment Corp.
• State of Missouri
• City of St. Louis
• St. Louis Housing Authority
• Housing Authority of St. Louis County, Missouri
• Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc.
• A.G. Edwards
• Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated
• Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc.
• Enright & Associates, Inc.
• Thompson McKinnon Securities, Inc.
• Abbott Ambulance, Inc.
• Area Rescue Consortium of Hospitals
• National City Bank of the Midwest (formerly Allegiant Bank)

Selected Lectures and Publications

• "American Banking Transactions" presented to the University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia, April 1992

Professional Affiliations

• Fellows of the American Bar Foundation
• American Bar Association
• The Missouri Bar
• The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
• St. Louis County Bar Association
• National Association of Bond Lawyers

Community Service and Awards

• 2006 Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers
• Missouri General Assembly, 1967-1973
• Missouri Reorganization Commission, 1971-1973
• Counsel to the Governor of Missouri, 1973-1977
• Missouri State Employee's Retirement System
  Trustee, 1973-1977
• Missouri Housing Development Commission
  Governor's Representative, 1973-1977
• Regional Justice Information System of St. Louis
  Commissioner, 1981-1983
• Board of Police Commissioners of the City of St. Louis
  Vice President, 1981-1985
• Zoological Park Subdistrict of the Zoo Museum District of the City and County of St. Louis
  Commissioner, Treasurer, Chairman of the Finance Committee and Director, 1977-1980, 1981-1985, 1990-1997
• Merit Selection Commission to select the U.S. District Attorney and U.S. Marshall for the Eastern District of Missouri
  Chairman, 1990
• Civil War Preservation Trust, Washington, DC
  Trustee, 1997-2003
  Honorary Trustee, 2003-Present
• Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Commission
  Treasurer, 2003-2004

Employment

• Lashly & Baer, P.C.
  Member, 1977-Present
• Counsel to the Governor of Missouri, 1973-1977
• Missouri House of Representatives
  Member, 1967-1973

Military Service

• United States Marine Corps, 1962-1968