Steve Schram Bio

Steve Schram has a broad range of real-world finance and accounting experience gained through roles as an audit staff member with Ernst & Young and during a four-year engagement as COO, CFO, and general counsel to Washington DC's largest furniture retailer. This experience, coupled with over 40 years in private law practice, makes Steve a go-to business, real estate, and transactional attorney for entrepreneurs and small to middle-market businesses. Steve focuses his practice on business, commercial transactions, corporate, and real estate matters and has extensive experience in negotiating, structuring, and documenting a broad range of complex transactions, including business and entity formations. This includes the development of capital and governance structures for corporations, joint ventures, partnerships, and limited liability companies; sales and acquisitions of business entities and business assets; acquisitions, sales, leasing, and financing of real estate assets; and secured and unsecured financing transactions. Steve also has deep experience in other areas affecting business entities, including structuring and negotiating a broad range of business contracts, executive employment contracts and executive compensation arrangements, service agreements, licenses, and management agreements. For organizations that either don’t have in-house counsel or require an outside resource to complement their in-house capabilities, Steve serves as an integral part of their team.