Larry D. Blust is a partner in the Chicago office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP and administrator of the Corporate Department. He concentrates his practice in buying and selling businesses and real estate and financing transactions including taxable and tax-exempt bonds, securitized lending transactions including REMICs, and equity financings including private placements, public offerings and partnership and REIT transactions. Mr. Blust also conducts a basic tax planning and counseling practice and a tax dispute practice, including practice in the Tax Court, Federal District Court, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the Federal Claims Court.
Mr. Blust is a frequent lecturer at continuing legal and CPA education seminars and programs for clients and potential clients, and has authored numerous articles for legal and business publications. He has held many not-for-profit board positions including Wisdom Bridge Theater, Old Town Triangle Association, Lincoln Park Conservation Association, Augustana Hospital, and Lutheran General Hospital and Foundation and presently is a board member of the Chicago Moving Company (a not-for-profit dance company) and the League of Chicago Theatres.
Mr. Blust received his B.S. in accountancy from the University of Illinois in 1965 where he was co-valedictorian. He received his J.D. in 1968 from the University of Illinois College of Law where he was first in his class, a member of the law review and awarded Order of the Coif. Mr. Blust also holds a certified public accountant certificate in Illinois. He is a member of the American and Illinois State Bar Associations and the Section on Taxation. Mr. Blust is admitted to practice in the state of Illinois and is a member of the trial bar of the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Prior to joining Barnes & Thornburg, he was a partner in the Chicago firm of Jenner & Block.