David Steiner focuses his practice on transactional work for businesses and individuals, primarily real estate transactions, specializing in environmentally impacted real estate, brownfields redevelopment, land leases and sales for solar facility development, and tax-free exchanges, as well as business transactions involving formation, acquisitions, sales, and contracts.

Throughout his career, David has represented clients in acquiring, selling and leasing real estate across the Midwest, Southwest, and Southeast. He regularly represents purchasers, sellers and lenders in transactions involving environmentally impacted commercial properties. These representations include all aspects of real estate due diligence including environmental risk assessment, land use, title insurance, survey and mortgage financing matters. In addition, David has represented business and individuals in negotiating and resolving environmental claims with state and federal regulators and in negotiating and settling environmental insurance claims.

Professional Honors

• AV^® Preeminent^TM”* rated attorney by Martindale-Hubbell based on their peer review ratings.
• Selected for inclusion since 2022 in the Best Lawyers in America® publications in the areas of corporate law, environmental law and real estate.
• Recognized by the Best Lawyers in America^® publication as "Lawyer of the Year," Fort Wayne for 2023 the area of Corporate Law.

Professional and Community Involvement

• Member, Allen County Bar Association
• Member, Christian Legal Society
• Member, Quest Club
• Member, Fort Wayne Rescue Mission Board of Directors
• Member, Headwaters Park Alliance Board of Directors
• Member, The Fellowship of Evangelical Churches Legacy Fund, Inc. Board of Directors
• Counsel, The Friends of the Parks of Allen County, Inc.

* AV^® Preeminent™ is a certification mark of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards, and policies. The AV rating is a testament to the fact that a lawyer's peers rank him or her at the highest level of professional excellence.

• Authored paper titled "Trends in Industry in Allen County" for the Quest Club of Fort Wayne. 

• Indiana
• U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana

• B.S., Business Administration, summa cum laude, Taylor University, Upland, Indiana
• J.D., cum laude, Indiana University, Bloomington