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| Sheldon
Baskin |
Andrew
D. Bunta, MD |
Norm
Katz |
| Sheldon Baskin and Partners,
Real Estate Investment & Development |
Vice Chairman, Dept. of Orthopaedic
Surgery, Northwestern Medical Faculty Fdtn. |
President
Everest Partners LLC
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Our association began more than 19 years
ago. We have worked together extensively and intensively
on the most complex matters. Their creativity and enthusiasm
are unsurpassed. They have been responsive and effective
under all circumstances and they have always been fair with
us.
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At a time of significant
change in my professional life, Sugar, Friedberg & Felsenthal
provided thoughtful and wise counsel on multiple issues. Their
personal concern, legal expertise and negotiating skills resulted
in a truly seamless transition for me. |
We have worked
together for almost eight years since we started Everest Partners.
I thought it was time to let you know how instrumental you have
been in the success of our business. In thinking about this
letter I took an inventory of the number of lawyers from your
firm I have used in various transactions and believe it or not...
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| Ulrich
Meyer |
Kurt
Walsh &
Renee Betzelos
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Charles
M. Friend |
Chairman
Bubbleland Inc.
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ProTen Realty |
President
C.P.A., CF & Associates |
| SFF represented our prior business and helped
us in a very successful sale. They helped us in all the formative
stages of our new business including financing. We have worked
with them for more than 17 years now and never make a major
move without consulting them. |
Sugar, Friedberg & Felsenthal helped us launch
ProTen Realty Group. They have given us outstanding advice.
They continue to protect our interests and assist us with growth.
They are the best of the best! |
Sugar, Friedberg & Felsenthal provides sound
tax advice that harmonizes with my business objectives. |
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| Gary A. Rosenberg |
Gregory Kay |
Jeffrey Wolfson |
| President and CEO Canterbury
Development Corporation |
CEO of TL Galleries,
Inc.
Lightology LLC
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Vice
Chairman, Pax Clearing Corporation |
Thank you for 22 years of great service.
The value of your service immeasurably exceeds its cost with
your well-grounded solutions and creativity.
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We have relied on SFF over the years
to analyze our issues on a strict cost/benefit basis. They have
counseled us in reaching our business goals, and then helped
us reach those goals with personal attention like no other law
firm. |
SFF is an outstanding law firm. They've
always been there when I've needed them. They have been totally
dedicated to my needs and those of my business. The firm understands
both business strategies and personal issues. They've accommodated
all of my legal needs, from the most simple partnership and
real estate transactions to the sale of complex businesses. |
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| Harold E. Foreman Jr. |
Gagerman Family |
W. P. O'Brien
Howard K. Chapman
R. K. Weil |
| Private Investor |
Jerome Gagerman
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H. Kramer & Company |
| I have used Sugar, Friedberg & Felsenthal
as my personal attorneys since they opened their doors over
20 years ago. I have the highest regard for them both as lawyers
and as persons. |
My family has trusted our personal affairs to
Sugar, Friedberg & Felsenthal for three generations. We
have relied on them for the most complicated and challenging
legal matters, which they have always handled with ease, efficiency
and timelessness. We look forward to SFF counseling a fourth
generation as well. |
At SFF it's the people. Law is law; some understand
better than others; it's the people. When legal questions
interrupt your daily routine and you need reliable and insightful
thought, it's the people. We have been associated with SFF long
enough to know we want to stay, it's the people. |
Additional
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| Les Rosenthal |
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| Managing Member Rosenthal Collins Group |
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I have used Sugar, Friedberg
& Felsenthal for my tax and estate planning matters for
more than 20 years. They are bright, creative and attentive.
Above all else, they really understand the law and my needs
as a client. |
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| Estelle Blaseos |
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| Board Member and Secretary/Treasurer Cancer Comfort
Foundation |
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One of the dreams of my brother
was to establish a foundation to help alleviate the anxiety,
suffering and isolation that cancer patients experience. My
brother was an extraordinary businessman who came to rely
on Sugar, Friedberg & Felsenthal for counsel during his
successful career in the food manufacturing business. When
my brother died, SFF helped us realize my brother's dream
by doing the legal work to establish the Cancer Comfort Foundation.
We appreciate the attention, care and proficiency which SFF
showed in helping us organize and launch the Cancer Comfort
Foundation. |
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James R. Eldridge
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Chairman and CEO
The Allant Group |
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I was reflecting recently
on our long-time association, and realized that I had never
formally acknowledged the contribution you and your colleagues
have made to the success story that is The Allant Group. So
let me make up for that oversight by letting you know how
much I value the counsel your firm has provided over these
many years. The expertise of your firm has allowed us to successfully
traverse some very delicate legal straits in the past, and
enabled us to avoid some of those snares altogether. As the
owner of a firm that has built a reputation as a premier service
provider in our industry, I recognize responsive service when
I'm the recipient, and Sugar, Friedberg and Felsenthal has
always worked quickly and competently to address our legal
needs.
Please pass along my thanks to your colleagues. They have
played no small role in my business affairs, and I am greatly
appreciative of their efforts on Allant's behalf. |
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| Midwest Young Artists |
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Dr. Allan W. Dennis
Executive Director
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We are deeply grateful to
Sugar, Friedberg & Felsenthal for all they have done to
make the programs of the Midwest Young Artists the Midwest
leading youth music program, a success. We relied on SFF to
work with the U.S. Department of Education, the Department
of Defense, the builder, and local municipalities, in order
to acquire and rehabilitate the real estate that became our
rehearsal facility. It was a long and tedious six year process
which could never have been successfully accomplished without
the legal help of SFF. We came to admire the negotiating skills,
as well as the litigation experience of the law firm. As a
result of their accomplishments, we now have a home which
accommodates more than 500 students, affording us to reach
out to many more youngsters, and presenting a musical opportunity
to youngsters like none they can get elsewhere. |
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| Philip L. Kianka |
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Vice President
Lexington Corporate Properties Trust
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Sugar, Friedberg & Felsenthal
represented us in our Kmart bankruptcy lease claims concerning
a warehouse/distribution property held in our portfolio. Their
commitment to providing us with the best possible advice regarding
our claim was one of the best investments we have ever secured. The
attention and promptness to details plus the understanding
of ownership’s concerns involving the matter were absolutely
outstanding. We could not have been more pleased with
their efforts. |
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| Norm Katz
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President
Everest Partners LLC
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almost half the firm has
played key roles in our complex deals. Whether the services
have been real estate, tax, corporate or litigation, each
member of your firm adds unique capacities and knowledge that
have served me and my partners very well.
Knowing that you treated our transactions with the intensity
and connectedness of an owner and that the deal's success
was viewed by you as your responsibility always gave me the
confidence that solutions could and would be found to some
very thorny transaction issues. Lenders have great confidence
in the competence of the firm and that has meant a lot in
the heat of battle. There is no way to quantify the value
of your services but I hope the fact that we continue to use
you exclusively is an indication of the value we place on
the relationship.
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