Allen leverages experience in business, tax and real estate to guide clients in acquisitions and sales that involve complex asset and real estate transactions.
Overview
Allen counsels investors and developers engaged in residential, hospitality and commercial development. Clients praise Allen for his excellent client service, responsiveness and strategic problem-solving.
A business and real estate lawyer with more than four decades of experience, Allen frequently serves as general counsel to closely-held businesses. He advises on formation, acquisitions, sales, business planning, contracts, real estate, lending, employment law and litigation, often coordinating with other Stinson attorneys to provide clients the full range of legal counsel they need to succeed.
Experience
Allen represents hotel developers in all aspects transactions, including land acquisition, development, management agreements, syndication, sale and private placement.
He represents beer wholesalers in the acquisition and sale of their distributorships, and provides representation for their operations, often acting as general counsel.
Allen advises purchasers and lenders of troubled real estate and problem loans.
Allen serves as counsel on the creation of homes and owners associations, compiles organizational documents and advises developers and property managers.
He has served as counsel on the development of a medical building complex of four buildings, including leasing, construction and permanent financing.
He has represented numerous buyers and sellers of businesses.
Allen has experience with the formation and structuring of new businesses.
Recognitions
Recognitions
"Hero of the Heart" recognition for his 25 years of service with the YMCA, 2011
Professional & Civic Activities
Professional & Civic Activities
Greater Kansas City YMCA, current Board of Directors and Executive Committee
YMCA Foundation of Mid-America, former Chairman
Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
Counsel to The Rabbit Hole
Practices & Industries
Admissions
- Missouri, 1978
- Kansas, 2007
- United States Tax Court
Education
University of Missouri - Columbia, J.D., 1978
University of Missouri - Columbia , B.S., Public Administration, 1975