John F. Kelly

Phone: 651-234-6213
Fax: cc651-452-5550

E-mail: jkelly@ck-law.com

John F. Kelly is an associate with Campbell Knutson and practices in the areas of Banking, Business and Real Estate Law.

In 1960 after three years at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, John transferred to the University of St. Thomas and received his Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in Political Science. John received a Juris Doctorate degree from William Mitchell College of Law in 1965.

John has extensive transactional experience in real estate, commercial and corporate law and his areas of specialization are real estate law, contract law, commercial finance law, leasing (shopping centers, office buildings) and general corporate matters.

John represents several banks, developers and other corporate clients. From 1965 to 1974, John was a solo practitioner in Burnsville, Minnesota. From 1974 to 1994, he worked for several subsidiaries of ITT including, ITT Real Estate Services, a division of ITT Commercial Finance Corporation, as Senior Associate General Counsel, Vice President and Assistant Secretary. While representing ITT, John negotiated, documented, and closed commercial real estate loans and prepared and negotiated contracts for the sale of real estate and the lease for shopping centers and office buildings throughout the U.S. From 1994 to 1995, he was Of Counsel with the law firm Leonard, O'Brien, Wilford, Spencer & Gale where he specialized in real estate and corporate matters. John joined Campbell Knutson in 1995.

Since joining Campbell Knutson, John has worked with many of the firm's municipal clients in the areas relating to development contracts, tax forfeit land acquisitions and sales, easement acquisition and the sale of properties.