Overview

Angie Drumm concentrates her practice in the areas of Banking & Finance, Real Estate, Venture Capital and Private Equity, Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy, and Business Law.

As a member of the firm’s Banking & Finance Group, she represents lenders and venture capital investors in commercial finance transactions that range from $5 million to more than $200 million, often secured by real estate and structured with tax credit and other incentive components.

She has developed particular depth in life company lending, where she regularly represents life insurance companies in the structuring, negotiation, and closing of large commercial mortgage loans across all major asset classes—office, retail, industrial, hospitality, and multifamily. Angie’s lending work extends to loan assumptions, modifications, syndications, and participations, where she ensures every transaction is efficiently executed, fully compliant, and aligned with lender and regulatory standards.

Beyond lending, Angie advises clients on commercial real estate acquisitions, dispositions, development, and leasing, and provides counsel on broader corporate and financial matters, including Chapter 11 restructurings, M&A transactions, entity formation, and contracting.

As a frequent contributor to legal publications, for more than a decade she co-authored “TaxWise,” a quarterly column on complex tax issues published in the St. Louis Bar Journal.

Angie’s broad transactional experience enables her to deliver practical, business-minded solutions that drive deals to closing with precision and efficiency.

Education

Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, MO, 2005

  • Washington University Global Studies Law Review, associate editor
  • Academic Achievement Award: Corporate Reorganization Taxation

University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, B.S.B.A., Finance & Banking and Real Estate with minor in Economics, summa cum laude, 2002

Community Involvement
  • Junior Achievement of Greater St. Louis, Inc., Board of Directors (2016-present)
  • Commercial Real Estate Women St. Louis (CREW) (2010-present)
    • Executive Board of Directors, Director, DEI Liaison (2025)
    • Executive Board of Directors, Immediate Past President (2024)
    • Executive Board of Directors, President (2023)
    • Executive Board of Directors, President-Elect (2022)
    • Executive Board of Directors, CREW Network Delegate (2021)
    • Executive Board of Directors, Secretary (2020)
    • Sponsorship Committee Chair (2018-2019)
    • Golf Committee Chair (2016-2017)
    • Ambassador Committee (2011-2015)
  • Volunteer Lawyer and Accountants for the Arts, Board of Directors (2012-2016)
  • Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
  • Missouri Bar Association
  • Illinois Bar Association
Awards
  • Best Lawyers – “The Best Lawyers in America” in Real Estate Law (2024-present)
  • Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers
    • Top 50: Women Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers (2025-present)
    • Super Lawyers (2021-present)
    • Rising Stars (2013-2019)
  • Missouri Lawyers Weekly – Up & Coming Lawyer (2018)
Publications & Presentations
  • “National Taxpayer Advocate – 2014 Annual Report to Congress,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Spring 2015
  • “When Too Much Control Can Get Out of Control,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Winter 2014
  • “The Sin of Wages,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Summer 2014
  • “A Surprising Twist to a Statute of Limitations,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Spring 2014
  • “When Too Much Control Can Get Out of Control,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Winter 2014
  • “The IRS Summons Power – A New Twist,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Fall 2013
  • “Why Charity Begins at Home,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Summer 2013
  • “100th Anniversary of the 16th Amendment,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Spring 2013
  • “The Rescission Doctrine,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Winter 2013
  • “Defined Value Clauses Re-Revisited,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Fall 2012
  • “Changing One’s Mind Without Changing the Tax Consequences,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Summer 2012
  • “Using Defined Values to Reduce Gift Taxes or Tax Savings Clauses Revisited,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Spring 2012
  • “The Power of Powers of Appointment,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Winter 2012
  • “Hitting Us Where We Live,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Fall 2011
  • “Pierre Steps in front of Tax Court Again,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Summer 2011
  • “Tax Court Places Limitations on Asset Protection Planning,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Spring 2011
  • “Rescinding a Disclaimer – Getting a Second Chance,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Winter 2011
  • “The Tax Treatment of Restitution Payments,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Fall 2010
  • “Thinking Outside the (Check-the) Box,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Summer 2010
  • “… the value of the taxable estate shall be determined by….,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Spring 2010
  • “The Privileged Few (Reprise),” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Winter 2010
  • “It’s About Time – Limitations Period Granted for Innocent Spouse Relief Interpreted,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Fall 2009
  • “Civil and Criminal Tax Fraud Penalties,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Summer 2009
  • “Nothing Succeeds – for the IRS – Like Successor Liability,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Spring 2009
  • “Equitable Recoupment – A New Twist,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Winter 2009
  • “Evading a Conviction for Tax Evasion – Boulware v. United States,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Fall 2008
  • “The Power to Substitute May be the Power to Avoid Tax,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Summer 2008
  • “Happily Never After Marriage,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Spring 2008
  • “Penalties for Aiding and Abetting,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Winter 2008
  • “Garnishing the Wages of Sin,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Fall 2007
  • “Debt and Taxes: Treatment of Shareholder Loans,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Summer 2007
  • “Offers in Compromise and Bankruptcy,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Spring 2007
  • “How Reasonable Must Reasonable Cause Be?” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Winter 2006
  • “To Buy or To Sell, That is the Question,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Fall 2006
  • “Trash Talk: Disposing of Confidential Information,” TED Magazine, October 2006
  • “It’s Best to Avoid this Hill,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Summer 2006
  • “Keep It Real: New Legislation on Counterfeit Manufacturing Strengthens Penalties for Counterfeiters and Increases the Protection of American Trademark Owners,” TED Magazine, July 2006
  • “Officer Compensation: How to Avoid Getting it S Backwards,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Spring 2006
  • “The IRS Summons Power,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Winter 2006
  • “What’s the Deal with Real Estate? Part II,” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Summer 2005
  • “What’s the Deal with Real Estate?” The St. Louis Bar Journal, Spring 2005