Stephen SchullerStephen A. Schuller

Stephen A. Schuller has over 30 years of legal experience. His clients consist primarily of developers, investors and entrepreneurs in all aspects of the acquisition and sale of real estate, oil & gas properties and investments, and other major business assets. Steve has handled complex financing transactions associated with such acquisitions, leasing (both documentation and enforcement), the planning and zoning process (both the administrative/regulatory level and in judicial and appellate proceedings), and recovery and work-out situations (including disposition of assets in foreclosures and bankruptcies). He regularly appears before local planning commissions and municipal governments, and he has successfully obtained the approval of commercial and mixed-used real estate developments. In addition, Steve represents international business organizations and individuals establishing operations in Oklahoma, as well as assisting domestic firms in trans-national transactions.

Steve was first listed in the Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers (for General Practice and Real Estate Law) as a solo practitioner in 1995, and he has been listed annually in The Best Lawyers in America (Real Estate Law) beginning in 2006.

Steve has been a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Employees’ Retirement System of Tulsa County, Oklahoma, since 1990. He has served as one of the Trustees of the Tulsa Authority for the Recovery of Energy, a public trust authority established by the City of Tulsa, since 2002, and was its Chairman in 2006-2007. In 2006, then-Mayor Bill LaFortune selected Steve to serve on the Citizens’ Commission on City Government. In addition, Steve served as a Member of the City of Tulsa’s Sales Tax Overview Committee from 1991 to 1994.

Steve is conversationally fluent in German.

Steve's recent experience includes:

The organization of a group of property owners for the development of their property in Downtown Tulsa for the construction of a national-franchise hotel, including the organization of the development company, and the negotiation of all development contracts and ancillary arrangements

Negotiation of a sanitary sewer construction and development agreement between an international service company (the client) and a local municipality, and the preparation of the pertinent documents, with the contemporaneous negotiation of the de-annexation of the client’s property from a neighboring municipality as a prerequisite to the annexation of the client’s property into the other municipality, and the preparation of all annexation/de-annexation agreements

Securing the approval of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area Planning Commission and the City of Tulsa for re-zoning and a Planned Unit Development for a major multi-city convenience store operator’s new store development