Chris S. Mehring is an attorney in the Milwaukee, Chicago and Detroit offices of Goldstein & McClintock. Mr. Mehring has practiced for over 27 years, in the areas of real estate, corporate and finance law, focusing on commercial real estate, traditional real estate and asset-based lending transactions and general corporate counsel.  In addition, Mr. Mehring assists the firm’s attorneys on the transactional aspects (asset dispositions and DIP financing) of its bankruptcy matters.

Mr. Mehring’s clients include several regional and local banking institutions in documenting, negotiating, and closing loan transactions. These loans include term loans, construction loans, account receivables loans, syndicated multi-agented loans, NMTC loans and accompanying loan modifications to those financing arrangements. In his representation of these banking clients, he also represents lenders in their modification and deferral agreements, forbearance agreements and workout situations on these loans. 

Mr. Mehring represents for profit and not for profit clients in their complex real estate development projects in all various matters. Such projects also may entail obtaining tax exempt financing for such projects (NMTC, TIFs and Grants) on its real estate development projects.  In addition, Mr. Mehring has previously rendered several non-consolidation opinions requested by lenders for borrowers on sophisticated tax-exempt financing transactions.  Mr. Mehring also has extensive experience working with various Small Business Administration (SBA) 7(a) and 504 financing programs.

Finally, Mr. Mehring performs outside general counsel tasks for the firm’s corporate clients. This work includes contractual negotiations with sellers and buyers, agents and third-party vendors, sophisticated real estate work, financing arrangements with its lenders, and employment matters. Currently, Mr. Mehring is representing a client in its stock equity raise of close to ten million dollars for a company that has gone from a startup to a nationwide manufacturer and distributor of its beverage product.

Prior to joining Goldstein & McClintock, Mr. Mehring worked for Husch Blackwell and Mallery S.C. (f/k/a Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek), in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Additionally, Mr. Mehring was an associate at the Chicago law firms of Katten Muchin Rosenman and Goldberg Kohn.

• Represents a non-profit as its general counsel in a $15 million state and city funded Chicago neighborhood development with affordable housing, retail and community amenities
• Represents a company as its general counsel including assisting in documenting close to ten million dollars in equity from investors in a beverage company
• Represented a regional bank in a $71 million co-agented commercial real estate transaction for an office building in the Midwest
• Represents a regional bank in over $20 million dollars in syndicated commercial real estate transactions each year
• Represents a regional bank in over 10 new or modified commercial real estate loans over the last year
• Represents a number of local banking clients in its documenting, modification and workout loans and leases with its real estate and accounts receivables customers
• Represented a client in the purchase and financing of a CVS and Dollar General stores in the state of Florida
• Represented a seller in the stock purchase of a beverage company
• Represented a buyer of two hotels in the Portland, Oregon area
• Represented developer in negotiating the purchase of a athletic and retail development in the Madsion, WI area
• Represented a developer in issuing an enforceability opinion for a NMTC transaction to build a new industrial building in Milwaukee County
• Represented a municipality in negotiating and issuing an enforceability opinion for a NMTC transaction to build a new hotel in the Milwaukee area

• State Bar of Wisconsin
• State Bar of Illinois
• State Bar of Michigan
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

• Commercial Association of Realtors of Wisconsin
• Bridge to Brighter, Board Member
• Village of Fox Point, Tax Assessment Review Board
• Summit Educational Association, Past Board Member

• Loyola University of Chicago School of Law, J.D., 1997
• University of Detroit-Mercy, London Law Program, 1996
• University of Wisconsin, B.A., with Distinction, 1993