Biography
Sue Schultz joined Sandberg Phoenix in January of 2011 and focuses in the areas of Business, Real Estate and Utility Law.
Sue represents clients in real estate acquisition, sale, leasing, and development; complex contract matters; corporate governance; general business matters; and utility law for both investor and cooperatively owned electric, water, and sewer utilities.
Sue once acted as General Counsel to Illinois' largest investor owned water utility, where she was responsible for the management of the legal affairs of the company, including the assurance of compliance with public utility regulations, corporate governance, legal aspects of acquisitions of multiple additional utilities, real estate transactions, capital construction projects, conventional and bond financing, complex contract matters and representation of the utility before the Illinois Commerce Commission. During that time, she also served as General Counsel to the largest investor owned water utility in Iowa.
Sue was involved in the siting and construction of a $38.7 Million water treatment facility in Alton, Illinois. She also obtained permission from Illinois EPA for first ever suspended solids trading modeled after air emissions trading and obtained a Private Letter Ruling allowing municipality exemption from tax on contribution in aid of construction, saving the municipality $500,000. She was also involved in the development of and Special Service Area Financing for The Shoppes at Greenmount and the Far Oaks subdivision.
Practice Groups
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Business Law
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Business Litigation
Industries/Areas of Practice
- Estate and Tax Planning
- Real Estate
Civic Activities
Sue participates in Project Angel Tree.
Professional Activities
Sue is admitted to practice law in the states of Illinois, Missouri and Iowa.
Sue is a member of the Illinois Bar Association’s Real Estate and Public Utility Sections. She is also a member of the Missouri Bar Association, the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, the Electric Cooperative Bar Association, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, the Association of Illinois Electric Cooperatives, and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Publications
Sue has written articles regarding the tax on contributions in aid of construction for utilities, exclusivity of service territory for Illinois water purveyors and suspended solids trading. She also co-authored an article regarding the condemnation of public water utilities.
Education
Sue earned her Juris Doctor,
magna cum laude, from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1987.
In 1984, Sue earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Illinois.