NYEMASTER - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Staff Attorney
- Key Contributor to on Brief
Colleen MacRae practices with the firm's Business, Finance & Real Estate team. Colleen represents real estate developers, purchasers, and sellers in a variety of commercial real estate transactions and works on commercial loan transactions, representing companies that lend money secured by commercial properties.
Colleen assists clients in real estate acquisitions and sales and development projects. She assists landlords and tenants in lease transactions for office, retail, and industrial leasing. Colleen also provides counseling to clients on issues relating to zoning, permitting, land use, economic development incentives, and environmental regulatory compliance, including review of environmental site assessments and compliance with state and federal environmental laws.
In lending, Colleen works primarily with life insurance companies handling due diligence and negotiating, documenting, and closing loan transactions. She has experience representing financial institutions in transactional matters and bank regulatory issues.
In her corporate business practice, Colleen works on mergers and acquisitions, contract matters, data and cybersecurity and corporate governance. She works with a broad range of industries including banking, construction, manufacturing, municipal utilities, wind and other renewable energy, finance, software, and health care. From initial start-up through growth and acquisition to succession planning and exit strategy Colleen regularly assists clients in every aspect of business.
Colleen was one of five real estate attorneys in the United States selected to serve a two-year fellowship with the American Bar Association's Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section. She is very active in professional, civic, and nonprofit organizations and currently serves on a number of boards and committees in the community.
Ed Hansell practices in the Business, Finance & Real Estate group in business law, including health law, health insurance, corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, mergers and acquisitions, agribusiness, commercial loans, securities, and secured transactions. He is serving in an Of Counsel capacity for the firm.
Ed is a frequent speaker on business law topics and has published several law review articles. He has served in a variety of Iowa State Bar Association and community roles, including serving as president of several of such organizations. Ed has been and is on a number of nonprofit and for-profit boards of directors.
Job Titles:
- of Counsel ( Ret. ) Cedar Rapids