Steve Burns JD

Steve Burns JD General Information

Biography

Mr. Steve Burns serves as a Partner at The Townsend Group (Cleveland). He has account responsibilities for a diverse array of clients that include public plan sponsors, foundations and Taft Hartley funds. Mr. Burns has extensive portfolio-level experience in the implementation of investment policies, strategies, and guidelines. He has conducted numerous investment manager searches for both separate accounts and commingled funds. In so doing he has analyzed investment managers' capabilities, strategies and terms of separate account relationships, limited partnerships, limited liability companies, private REITs and insurance company separate accounts. Mr. Burns' property level experience includes preparation and subsequent enforcement of investment guidelines for property acquisitions in separate accounts, investment-specific due diligence at the property level to include acquisition and disposition analysis, and reviews of asset, budget, management and investment plans for separate accounts. Prior to joining The Townsend Group in 1996, Mr. Burns served as a government trial attorney for eight years. His practice focused on high-profile felony economic crime litigation. Mr. Burns is a frequent attendee at industry conferences and seminars where he has served as both a moderator and speaker. Mr. Burns received a JD from Case Western Reserve University and a BA from Miami University.