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Steve Swartz

Steve Swartz

Steve Swartz is one of Greg McCann's co-consultants for family businesses. He has over 40 years of experience as a family business consultant, mediator and former practicing attorney. His education, training and experience contributes significantly to the effectiveness of our family business consulting services:

Family Business Consulting

  • McGladrey & Pullen Family Business Group (formerly Hubler/Swartz & Associates): Co-founder in 1980 and senior consultant until retirement in 2000. Consulted with over 250 family owned businesses on issues of (a) leadership and management transition, (b) ownership transition, and (c) working relationship tensions
     
  • Family Firm Institute: Charter member, serving on its Board of Directors from 1988 to 1991 and as President from 1990 to 1992.
     
  • Presented workshops at several annual conferences, and authored "The Challenges of Multidisciplinary Consulting to Family-Owned Businesses," published in the Family Business Review (volume 2,number 4, Winter 1989)
     
  • Inaugurated as FFI "Fellow" in 2001.
     
  • Stetson University (Deland, Florida): Adjunct faculty in the Stetson University Family Business Center, and a member of its Board of Advisors.

Mediation

  • Basic and advanced training, Hamline University School of Law (ranked among the top 5 mediation training programs nationally)
     
  • Experience mediating (a) partner/shareholder working relationships, (b) estate planning/inheritor disputes, (c) family business planning issues and litigation, and (d) healthcare provider working relationships

Law

  • Partner, Maslon Edelman Borman & Brand, 1964-87, representing closely held businesses, commercial lenders and a private hospital
     
  • United States Department of Justice, 1962-64, representing the government in several federal Courts of Appeals and state supreme courts
     
  • United States Court of Appeals (Eighth Circuit) Law Clerk to Judge Harry A. Blackmun, 1961-62
     
  • J.D., cum laude, University of Minnesota Law School, 1961 (contemporaneously serving as law clerk to Minnesota Supreme Court Justices Lee Loevinger and James Otis)

Web site - www.swartzconsultants.com