Glen A. Bellinger
Co-Founder and Partner
Dallas, Texas
Phone: 214-954-9540
Email:
gbellinger@bd-law.com

CLIENT SERVICE PHILOSOPHY

“Clients hire the lawyer, not the law firm.”

That is the philosophy that led Glen Bellinger, Steve DeWolf and Barbara Emerson to depart from the relative security of well established national and regional law firms to form Bellinger & DeWolf LLP in 1996.

A founding partner of Bellinger & DeWolf LLP, Bellinger saw a niche opportunity to serve clients who cared more about great service, deep expertise, and a personal relationship than working with a major law firm with a regional, national or international footprint.

“With our firm, what you see is what you get,” Bellinger says. “My clients know that I care about them, their business and their families as I would my own. Our attorneys view every matter as if it were a family matter. We are responsive, timely and relationship-oriented. And we are available 24/7.”

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Glen Bellinger is responsible for assisting clients with closing real estate transactions valued at more than $1 billion each year. He offers clients more than 20 years of experience as a lawyer, having a concentration in real estate, corporate and securities law. In his law practice, Bellinger works closely with his clients and counsels them on business structure, business formation, equity and debt funding, tax and general business matters. In addition to his law practice, Bellinger has invested in and secured funds for several emerging businesses, assists and advises them in their equity and debt offerings and growth plans, and serves as a member of the board of several companies.

Glen Bellinger is licensed to practice law in Texas and Missouri. He also is a certified public accountant (CPA).

Before forming Bellinger & DeWolf, Bellinger worked for nine years with Arter & Hadden, then a major national law firm for which he was a partner. While there, he specialized in real estate transactions, mergers and acquisitions. He developed a particular expertise with complex commercial, retail and residential real estate development transactions. Before practicing law, he practiced as a CPA for over three years in the St. Louis office of Arthur Young, now known as Ernst & Young. During that time, he worked extensively with emerging businesses and in mergers and acquisitions.

KEY PRACTICE AREAS

Real Estate and Land Use
General Corporate and Business
Securities

CLIENT EXPERIENCE

Represents several major national home builders in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Region and throughout Texas in all real estate, business and litigation matters. Work includes preparing, negotiating, systemizing and streamlining all acquisition and disposition documents as well as performing reviews of all zoning, utility, title, survey and environmental aspects relating to raw land and developed lots and the construction of improvements thereon. Work also includes preparing, tailoring and coordinating all restrictive covenants relating to the development of multi-faceted developments, and managing and directing all DTPA, construction defect and other litigation.

Acquisition, development, construction and disposition of numerous real estate projects, including existing projects and proposed sites involving apartments, warehouses, office buildings, regional mall shopping centers and single-family lots. Work on such projects included reviews of and resolution of problems relating to tenant lists and rent tolls, leases, utility arrangements (including municipal utilities), ad valorem taxes (paid and unpaid), zoning ordinances, title commitments and policies, surveys, plats, easements and subdivision associations.

Structure, form and document complex joint ventures relating to development projects including with significant involvement with utility and improvement districts.

Structured, negotiated, formed and implemented several sophisticated master partnerships and numerous subsidiary partnerships which owned, managed and operated in excess of 23 million square feet of retail space contained within several projects located in numerous states throughout the Southwest and involving several future development sites. These transactions involved extensive due diligence reviews of real estate asset portfolios and appraisals and involved extensive documentation relating to coordination with and reimbursements from applicable municipal utility districts, road utility districts and levee improvement districts, refinancings and several future development sites.
Proposed, structured and documented several stock merger and asset acquisition transactions for businesses in various industries. Work included standardizing alternative acquisition and merger document forms to create significant efficiencies and cost savings for the client, as well as performing due diligence reviews of the assets and operations of the seller.

Proposed, structured and documented several private placements of securities for real estate, manufacturing and other types of businesses including several offshore exempt securities offerings which were sold primarily in Canada and Europe.

Counsel clients on various aspects relating to general business matters including labor, business, tax and contract matters.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting, with honors, University of Missouri, 1976
Juris Doctor, cum laude, St. Louis University, 1982
Master of Finance Degree, St. Louis University, 1983

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

State Bar of Texas, Admitted in 1983
State Bar of Missouri, Admitted in 1982
International Council of Shopping Centers
Home Builders Association of Greater Dallas
The Real Estate Council
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants
Texas State Board of Public Accountancy

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Frequent speaker at and writer for International Council of Shopping Centers Annual U.S. Law Conferences and real estate and title industry meetings and conferences.

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

The Catholic Foundation, Advisory Board Member
Jesuit College Preparatory School, Development Fund, Committee Chair
St. Vincent DePaul Society Thrift Store Project, Lead Counsel and Fund Raising Committee
Parkway Bank, Board of Directors

HOBBIES AND INTERESTS

“Raising six kids,” snow skiing, fishing and running.

Not certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization