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Cheryl A. Kelly

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Cheryl has experience in representing lenders and borrowers in complex finance transactions, loan restructurings and workouts (whether in or out of bankruptcy), and in receivership and foreclosure proceedings. Her practice also includes the representation of creditors in bankruptcy, reorganization and similar proceedings and debtors in Chapter 11 reorganization proceedings.
 
Cheryl is a fellow of the American College of Real Estate Attorneys (and serves on its Board of Governors), a fellow of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys, and a member of the Real Property Section of the American Bar Association (where she serves as Group Chair for the Real Estate Finance Group of Committees).  Cheryl was named to the Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers® list of top 50 women attorneys in Missouri from 2009 - 2011 and was named a corporate counsel Super Lawyer® from 2009 - 2011.  She was also included in the Super Lawyers® Business Edition in 2011.  She has been named to the Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers® list every year since 2005.  Cheryl has additionally been selected for inclusion in the Best Lawyers in America® 2012 Edition (Real Estate Law).

Fellow, American College of Real Estate Lawyers
Elected to the Board of Governors in 2011 (3 year term)
Member, Programs Committee
Member, Finance Committee
Chair, Bankruptcy Committee (2008-2011)
Fellow, American College of Mortgage Attorneys
Member, American Bar Association
Business Law Section
Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section
Acquisitions Editor for E-Report (the RPTE Section’s On-Line Journal)
Chair, Real Estate Finance Group of Committees
Editor, Manual on Foreclosure and Related Remedies in the 50 States
Appointed Advisor on the Committee established by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws to study a uniform Manufactured Housing Act
Member, American Bankruptcy Institute
Member, American Law Institute-American Bar Association (ALI-ABA) Real Estate Advisory Panel
Member, Commercial Real Estate Women
Member, The Missouri Bar
Member, Illinois State Bar Association
Member, The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
Volunteer Lawyers Program (Legal Services of Eastern Missouri)
Legal Advocates for Abused Women (LAAW)
Board Member; Development Committee
Court Appointed Special Advocate (Saint Louis County, Missouri)
Selected for inclusion in Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers® since 2005.
Top 50 Women, 2009-2011
Selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers® Corporate Counsel, 2009-2011
Selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers® Business Edition in 2011
Selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America® 2012 Edition (Real Estate Law)
Recipient of Missouri Lawyers Women's Justice Award (Business Practitioner Category), 2011
YWCA Leader in the Workplace Designee, 2009
Cheryl A. Kelly
Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
Federal District Court for the Western District of Missouri
Federal District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
Federal Court of Appeals - Eighth Circuit
Saint Louis University School of Law
J.D., cum laude (1989)
Saint Louis University Public Law Journal
Order of the Woolsack
Saint Louis University
B.S., Physical Therapy, magna cum laude (1982)
Thompson Coburn LLP
Partner (1999-Present)
Associate (1989-1998)
Summer Associate (Summer 1988)
Lewis Rice and Fingersh
Summer Associate (Summer 1987)
Illinois (1990)
Missouri (1989)
Federal Courts (E.D. Mo; W.D. Mo; S.D. Il)