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F. Chase Simmons

Shareholder
Chase Simmons concentrates on large-scale employment and real estate development projects and all manners of public financing and government relations.  He regularly appears on behalf of his clients before state agencies, municipal boards and councils across the region and country.  As a result, in addition to his real estate development practice, he has experience in fields as diverse as Green Energy Vouchers, Tax Increment Financing, Corp of Engineers environmental approvals and New Markets Tax Credits.

 

Some of the world's leading edge companies trust Mr. Simmons and his team when it comes to public private partnerships.  With a focus on specialized financial and public policy representation for new economy and emerging industry companies, Mr. Simmons has leveraged the depth and breadth of his professional experience for the benefit of a wide variety of market leaders such as Cerner Corporation, Smith Electric Vehicles, Google Fiber, Lockton, Inc., Sporting KC, and TEVA Neuroscience.

 

Mr. Simmons' familiarity with tax and governmental finance as well as the nuances of governmental entities gives him a unique perspective and breadth of experience from which to draw when representing client interests at local, state and federal levels of government.

Memberships and Affiliations

  • GenKC Steering Committee
  • Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
    • Board Member
  • City of Overland Park Form-Based Code Committee
    • Committee Member and Representative of Development Attorneys, 2010
  • City of Overland Park
    • Site Design Standards and Architectural Design Steering Committee, 2009-present
  • Mid-America Regional Council Retrofitting Suburbia, 2011
  • ICSC Roundtable Leader, 2005, 2006, 2007
  • Co-author of the Kansas Community Improvement District Act

Distinctions

  • Ranked in Chambers: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Real Estate, 2011
  • Ingram's Rainmakers, 2011
  • Kansas City Tomorrow, 2010-2011
  • Ingram's "40 Under 40" 2010
  • Missouri Lawyers Weekly, "Up and Coming Lawyers" 2008
  • Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Man of Year Candidate
  • Leadership Overland Park
  • "Public Incentives Analysis," Real Estate Master's Program, Visiting Instructor, Bloch School of Business, UMKC, 2007 & 2008.

Experience

Kansas City, Kansas
Kansas City, Kansas; (Winner of the Business Journal Capstone Award).
Kansas City, Kansas
Kansas City, Missouri
Blue Springs, Missouri
Kansas City, Kansas
Liberty, Missouri
Leawood, Kansas
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri
Westwood, Kansas