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312.560.7148
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Charlie Harrison
Legal Executive with a
Business Perspective
Charlie Harrison
312.560.7148
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Charlie Harrison
10,500 miles of modern railroad
Legal Executive with a Business Perspective - Summary
Legal Expertise
• Corporate governance & Secretary
• SEC periodic reporting with contingent
liability reserve estimation
• Complex litigation management
• Real estate negotiation, contracting
or supervision of 1,800+ closings
• Environmental liability
Executive Business Experience
• Liquidation of a public company with
21,000 acres of railroad property
• Directed Real Estate Sales department
• Led real estate rezoning projects
• Managed 90+ environmental
remediation projects or claims
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Charlie Harrison
Legal Expertise – Corporate Governance
Corporate Secretary for complex publicly
traded family of entities
Prepared or reviewed SEC 10-Q, 10-K, 8-K,
proxy statements, annual reports and
earnings statements. Prepared contingent
environmental and litigation liability
reserve estimates with presentation
to outside auditors.
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Charlie Harrison
Legal Expertise – Corporate Governance
Advised the public company Board on
liquidation options and process to avoid
personal liability for the officers and
directors. Made two rounds of distributions
to unit-holders before placing company in
liquidating bankruptcy.
Presented to Board a year long effort to
quantify options for addressing
environmental liabilities in excess of
assets using insurance products,
Monte Carlo statistical analysis, and
offers to assume liabilities and properties
from three bidders.
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Charlie Harrison
Legal Expertise – Complex Litigation Management
Contested liability for environmental
liability at a rail yard through two trips to
the 7th Circuit with appeals to the US
Solicitor and the US Supreme Court to
finally settle at 20% ($1.1M) of the actual
damages.
Personally settled 20+ lawsuits arising
from commercial disputes, real estate
contracts, personal injury, environmental
liability and corporate asset sales by
independent negotiation or mediation.
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Charlie Harrison
Legal Expertise – Complex Litigation Management
Settled ten year litigation arising from a
corporate asset sale of a line of railroad
within two weeks of being asked to sit
in the courtroom as a company face.
Negotiated litigation settlement from a
global mining company requiring it to
contribute the lion’s share of costs at
an environmental site which it
operated for only a quarter of the
relevant time.
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Charlie Harrison
Legal Expertise – Real Estate and Environmental Liability
Provided legal support, contract
negotiation, documentation and
closing, including supervision of two
paralegals, for 1,800+ real estate closings
for property in twelve states.
Provided legal and business direction
and analysis for resolution of 90+ federal
and state environmental sites or claims in
twelve states including selecting and
managing outside counsel and consultants.
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Charlie Harrison
Led organization and marketing of sale of
13,000 acres of former railroad property to
a single purchaser.
Executive Business Experience – Real Estate Sales
2001
2002
Sales
32% Increase
10,500 miles of modern railroad
Led four-person real estate sales
department to 32% annualized
revenue increase by re-aligning
compensation and changing
department culture by example.
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Charlie Harrison
Executive Business Experience – Real Estate Rezoning
Secured zoning change for a planned
unit development for a 42,000 sf office
building in only seven months from
concept to final approval over initial
municipal rejection of the project.
Directed rezoning of 163 acre parcel from
farmland to 860 unit residential. Persuaded
Indian tribe to drop opposition by using
fisheries biologists and civil engineers
to design a storm water runoff filtration
system which could permit future
salmon habitat restoration. Result: value
increased from $500,000 to $12 million.
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Charlie Harrison
Executive Business Experience – Environmental Remediation
Persuaded Wisconsin DNR to permit
three feet of diesel free product
spread over eight acres to remain in
place by accepting the filling
necessary to construct a parking lot
as the remediation solution. Result:
$3M cost savings.
Persuaded Illinois EPA to issue “No Further
Action” letter within six weeks of
submitting initial environmental studies
on 25 acres of former rail yard on
Goose Island, Chicago. Result: sale
for $5.9M closed by end of quarter.
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Charlie Harrison
Mixed Legal Expertise and Executive Business Leadership
Cut remediation expense at company
owned arsenic pesticide manufacturing
site by $7.6M (88%). Contracted with a
commercial buyer whose end use made
the remediation standards less stringent,
sued a prior lessee for contribution and
arranged for brownfield grants.
Created $6M (40%) increase in value from
the remediation of 100 acres of former rail
yard by persuading the Wisconsin DNR to
accept capping as the remedy. Then
charged excavation contractors tipping
fees to place the fill which acted as the
environmental cap while raising the
property out of the flood plain.
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Charlie Harrison
Kellogg Graduate School of Management
Executive MBA - 2004
MIT – Center for Real Estate
Professional Courses - 2001
IIT – Chicago Kent College of Law
JD with honors - 1988
St. John’s College
BA in Liberal Arts - 1981
Education
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Charlie Harrison
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
ST. JOSEPH GROUP, LLC 2007 – Present
President
CMC HEARTLAND PARTNERS 2002 – 2007
General Counsel, Senior Vice President Real Estate, and Secretary
POWER MART REAL ESTATE CORPORATION 2001 – 2002
President
CMC HEARTLAND PARTNERS 1990 – 2001
General Counsel 1999 – 2001
Associate General Counsel 1994 – 1998
Senior Counsel 1990 – 1994
LEVIN & FUNKHOUSER, LTD. 1988 – 1990
Associate
CHICAGO PACIFIC CORPORATION 1982 – 1988
Title and Closing Officer
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