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Kwabena A. Appenteng
Associate

Greene and Letts
111 West Washington St.
Suite 1650
Chicago, Illinois 60602

Phone: 312-346-1100
Fax: 312-346-4571
kappenteng@greeneandletts.com


Areas of Practice
Public Finance  •  Transactional law Real Estate Law

Bar Admissions
Illinois, 2008 Northern District of Illinois, 2008

Employment
Greene and Letts, March 2008 to present; Illinois Appellate Court, 1st District; Honorable Justice P. Scott Neville Jr., Judicial Extern, June 2007 to August 2007; Greene and Letts, Summer Associate, Summer 2006;
JLD & MB Legal Consultancy (Solicitors)(Accra, Ghana), Special Projects Assistant: International Mergers & Acquisitions, August 2005 to December 2005.

Experience
Drafts contracts and other business agreements for corporate clients;
Represents not-for-profit organizations in 501(c)(3) proceedings; Participates in all legal facets of municipal and public finance offerings; Serves as counsel for tax deed petition cases and real estate transactions; Represents clients in tax deed cases; Represents clients in residential and commercial real estate transactions.

Education
The John Marshall Law School, J.D., 2008 • Illinois Wesleyan University, B.A., Business Administration, 2004

Awards and Honors
John Marshall Dean’s List Student; Recipient of Dean's Scholarship & Edith & Philip Baim Academic Achievement Scholarship; Recipient of the 2007 Illinois Judicial Scholarship for achievements in law school; Selected as a member of Phi Delta Phi International Honorary Legal Fraternity based on academic achievement;
Member of John Marshall Trial Advocacy and Dispute Resolution Honors Council; Represented John Marshall at 2007 Georgetown National White Collar Crime Mock Trial Competition.

Memberships
Volunteer (pro bono) attorney at the Chicago Legal Clinic, working with the Clinic’s Mortgage Foreclosure Group to help counsel and defend clients with property in foreclosure proceedings
and develop loan workout plans with lenders. Member of the Chicago Bar Association’s Bankruptcy and Reorganization Committee, Corporation and Business Law Committee, and Commercial Finance and Transaction Committee. Also serves as a member of the American Bar Association, Illinois State Bar Association, and the National Association of Bond Lawyers.

Publications
Chicago Lawyer Magazine: An International Perspective
 

The Publicly Traded Law Firm (February, 2009)
Global-law-zation (April, 2009)
When In Rome (August, 2009)