Jeffrey E. Wallace

Partner

Practices and Industries

Real Estate Development, Financing, and Transactions International Trade Corporate & Securities Mortgage Lending Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights

Jeff Wallace is a member of the Firm’s Real Estate & Lending Service Team and is the leader of the International Services area of the Firm. He formerly served as the Firm’s Partner-in-Charge of Client Relations. He concentrates his practice in the areas of international, corporate, finance, venture capital, entertainment and real estate law and development.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

EDUCATION

J.D., Valparaiso University School of Law; 1987

Associate Editor of The Valparaiso University Law Review

B.A., Purdue University, 1984

ADMISSIONS

Indiana
Kentucky
Louisville Bar Association, Member
Indiana Bar Association, Member
Kentucky Bar Association, Member
American Bar Association, Member
U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit

HONORS

Woodward/White’s The Best Lawyers in America® Real Estate Law, 2013 – present
Recognized by his peers as one of the Kentucky Super Lawyers®
Fellow of the Kentucky Bar Foundation
Patron Fellow of the Louisville Bar Foundation
Fellow of the Indiana Bar Foundation
Life Patron of Valparaiso University Law Review
Forty Under Forty: Metro Louisville’s Foremost Young Business Leaders (inaugural class Business First 1996)
AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory
Recognized as one of the “Top Lawyers” in the area of International Trade Law by Louisville Magazine, March 2014

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Judicial Extern for the Hon. Michael Kanne of the U.S. Court of Appeals 7^th Circuit (1986-87)
Associate with the Japanese firm of Anderson, Mori & Rabinowitz

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS

Floyd County, Louisville, Indiana State, Kentucky and American Bar Associations
Louisville Bar Foundation Inc.
Legal Aid Association of Louisville
Focus Louisville, 1989
Leadership Louisville, 1998
Legal Aid Society
Board of Advisors of The Wellesley Capital Group, LLC

CIVIC INVOLVEMENT

Board of Directors for Junior Achievement of Kentuckiana, Inc.
Japan/America Society of Kentucky, Inc.
Greater Louisville Sports Commission, Inc.
Trustee and Elder at St. John United Presbyterian Church
Board of Trustees of Friends of the Waterfront, Inc.
Past President of Louisville Bar Foundation, Inc.
Board of Directors for Louisville Bar Association, Inc.
Chairman and Organizer for Play Strong for Cancer

LANGUAGES

Conversant in Japanese and Spanish

PUBLICATIONS

“Contextual Regulation of Cable Television,” 21 No. 1 Valparaiso University Law Review, 1987
“Purchases and Sales of Real Estate,” Kentucky Forms and Transactions, Chapter 43 (Banks Baldwin 1991)

PRESENTATIONS

Mr. Wallace has lectured on a variety of real estate, finance and international law topics including International Compliance Programs, Trade and Customs Practices, Title III Requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Real Estate and Commercial Lending Kentucky Law Update and International Finance Transactions.