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E. Shefsky Of Counsel
Lloyd E. Shefsky is a founding partner of Shefsky & Froelich Ltd., and currently serves as Of Counsel to the firm. He advises entrepreneurs on a broad range of legal, financial and business matters, he counsels family businesses on succession, governance and relationships, and also assists institutional clients with a variety of financial and operational ventures, transactions and activities. Lloyd also serves on Boards of Directors of private and public companies.
Lloyd has been actively involved in bringing clients to international and domestic capital and commercial markets throughout his 40 years of practice. During that time he has represented many Israeli companies, especially those involved in high tech, software, security, medical technology and devices, biotechnology and nanotechnology businesses. He is also counsel to the Government of Israel throughout the Midwest. Lloyd has received substantial professional recognition for his work on behalf of entrepreneurs and others. The following are among the most significant of those:
In 1995, he was awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year Award from Ernst & Young, Inc. and Merrill Lynch, for his work supporting entrepreneurs in the Midwest.
In 2002, he received the Civil Rights Award from the Anti-Defamation League.
In 1992, he received the Industrialist of the Year Award from the America-Israel Chamber of Commerce.
In 1993, he received the Excellence Award from the Sports Lawyer Association.
He has served, by gubernatorial appointment, on the Board of the prestigious Illinois Institute of Entrepreneurship Education.
Lloyd is a Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship at the prestigious Kellogg School of Management, where he is also Founder and Co-director of the Center for Family Enterprise and Founder of the Center for Executive Women.
EDUCATIONJD, 1965, University of Chicago Law School
CPA, 1964, University of Illinois
BS, 1962, DePaul University
BAR ADMISSIONSIllinois
Florida
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC AFFILIATIONSLloyd has served on the Boards of numerous civic, charitable and humanitarian organizations. Among his affiliations are:
Anti-Defamation League
- Associate National Commissioner,
Regional Board of Directors
- Co-Chair, Regional Civil Rights Committee
- Recipient, 2002 Civil Rights Award
American-Israel Chamber of Commerce
- Past President
- Recipient, 1992 Industrialist of the Year
Award
Sports Lawyers Association
- Founding President
- President Emeritus
- Recipient, 1993 Excellence Award
Lloyd has been awarded an AV® Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell, its highest rating for ethical standards and legal ability. He is a member of the Leading Lawyers Network and was named to the Illinois Super Lawyers list.
SPEECHES AND PUBLICATIONSLloyd has authored many articles published in numerous professional publications. He has written a chapter on taxes for a legal treatise, co-authored, “Prospectus Perspective,” a story in the form of a screenplay that explores how and why people decide to go public.
In 1994 McGraw Hill published Lloyd’s book, Entrepreneurs Are Made, Not Born, subsequently translated into Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Hebrew, Arabic, and Hungarian.
In 2004, he authored and was executive producer of a video case study of governance of family business for the Kellogg School.
His knowledge and studies in entrepreneurship and family businesses are primarily aimed at benefiting his clients. He does, however, continue to share his experience through lectures, addressing various audiences of business people, university students and not-for-profit organizations.
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