Ryan P. Farrell

Ryan P. Farrell, a Certified Public Accountant and a resident of Crystal Lake for most of his life, knows the businesses and the people of McHenry County. His wide-ranging transactional experience encompasses banking, corporate business law, taxation, estate planning, employee benefits, real estate, and municipal and local government law.

Farrell’s work with banks, businesses and individuals includes matters such as:

• commercial workouts
• foreclosures, including consent foreclosures
• deeds in lieu of foreclosure
• drafting and reviewing loan documents
• contract drafting
• collections
• commercial real estate
• liability for fraudulent transactions
• business incorporation
• business dissolution
• business separation agreements
• tax planning for business transactions
• estate planning
• construction law

In addition to the banking industry, Farrell has worked with corporate clients in the fields of manufacturing and real estate development.

Farrell is a graduate of Crystal Lake South High School, the University of Illinois and Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

McHenry County Bar Association, Illinois State Bar Association

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

• Moderator, “Finance Forum,” co-sponsored by McHenry County Economic Development Corporation (MCEDC) Business Growth & Development Committee and the Illinois Small Business Development Center, March 2011
• Farrell has conducted seminars on estate planning topics with Melissa Cooney of Zukowski, Rogers, Flood & McArdle through Centegra Health Systems and Hearthstone Communities and has delivered a four-hour presentation on sexual harassment issues to the Holland Company.

HONORS AND AWARDS

Northwest Herald Business Journal’s “10 Under 40″ Award, Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce Presidential Award of Excellence

PRIOR EMPLOYMENT

Prior to joining Zukowski, Rogers, Flood & McArdle in 2006, Farrell was a senior employee benefits legal consultant at Ernst & Young, LLP in Chicago, where he performed compliance and fiduciary reviews of qualified benefit plans. He also represented clients in their dealings with the Internal Revenue Service. Earlier in his career, Farrell worked with the same Big Four professional services firm as a senior auditor. Farrell also spent a year as a legal intern with General Growth Properties, which was then a Chicago-based publicly traded real estate investment trust.

CIVIC AND CHARITABLE

Farrell enthusiastically supports many community and business associations in Crystal Lake and McHenry County. In 2011, he was elected to the board of School District 47 in Crystal Lake. He sits on the board of trustees and is a member of the 2010 class of Leadership Greater McHenry County, a group organized to foster and develop local community leaders. Farrell is chairman of the board of directors of the Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce and is a member of its finance division. He also sits on the board of the Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce Foundation, which provides funds and leadership to assist in, among other things, community leadership and facility development. He is also chair of the McHenry County Economic Development Corporation Business Growth and Development Committee.

As a member of the Affiliates of the Raue, Farrell serves on the auxiliary board for the Raue Center for the Arts, a Crystal Lake theater. Farrell is also an active member of the Crystal Lake Rotary Dawnbreakers.

PRO BONO

As the general corporate counsel of the Crystal Lake Food Pantry, Farrell helps the 501(c)(3) charitable organization offer temporary food assistance to qualified Crystal Lake residents. Volunteers from more than 20 local faith communities run the food pantry.