Biography

Lynn Goessling has more than 30 years of experience in commercial real estate and business law. She has maintained long-standing relationships with numerous clients thanks to her reputation for trusted judgment and practical insights.

Lynn represents a broad range of clients, including developers, investors, landowners, and public and privately held companies. She handles transactions across all sectors of the commercial real estate industry, from multifamily, office, retail, and hospitality to health care, life sciences, senior living, and industrial projects.

Over the past decade, Lynn has developed particular depth in large-scale industrial and logistics projects, frequently leading build-to-suit and design-build transactions averaging over 500,000 square feet. She has also led complex mixed-use and office campus developments in multiple states involving significant coordination of infrastructure and ancillary uses.

Her experience encompasses acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, easements, complex title and entitlement matters, and projects involving public-private financing tools such as TIFs, tax abatement, and special development districts. Lynn also has significant experience structuring joint ventures and assisting clients with the financing components of complex real estate transactions. With a background that includes corporate structuring, tax planning, and environmental remediation, Lynn aligns legal strategy with business objectives to help clients maximize value and manage risk across the life cycle of an investment.

Lynn’s collaborative approach brings together attorneys, brokers, lenders, accountants, and construction professionals to deliver integrated, business-driven solutions.

Background

Prior to joining Armstrong Teasdale, Lynn spent more than 25 years in private practice at other St. Louis area law firms.

Education

  • Saint Louis University School of Law  (J.D., 1993)
    • Employment and Labor Certificate
  • Saint Louis University  (B.S., cum laude, 1990)
    • Business Administration
    • Economics
    • Personnel and Industrial Relations

Admissions

  • Missouri
  • Illinois

Professional Activities

  • Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Network, Board of Directors (2021-2022)
  • St. Louis County Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority (LCRA), Board Member (2021-present)
  • St. Louis Chapter of Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW), President (2018); Board Member (2014-2019); Mentorship Program Leader (2019-2021); Chair of Golf Committee (2013-2014); Sponsorship Committee (2009-2012)
  • Missouri Growth Association, CREW Board Representative (2019)
  • American Bar Association, Real Estate and Business Law Section
  • Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
  • The Missouri Bar
  • Illinois Bar Association

Charitable and Civic Involvement

  • Mary Queen of Peace Board of Education, Board Member and Past President

Accolades

  • Missouri/Kansas Super Lawyers® (2025)
  • St. Louis Business Journal, Most Influential Business Women (2024)
  • The Best Lawyers in America®, Real Estate Law (2024-present)
  • St. Louis Small Business Monthly, Best Attorneys (2019)
  • CREW St. Louis Career Advancement for Women Award (2020)
  • CREW St. Louis Spirit of CREW Award (2014)
  • CREW Successful Together/Networking Story of the Year Award (2010)
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