Steven F. Mount, B.A., Muskingum College, 1976; J.D., Harvard University, 1979; Partner, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P., Columbus, Ohio; admissions: Ohio, New York; member of National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts; regular panelist at the Novogradac New Markets Tax Credit Conference series; former author of a BNA portfolio on the taxation of real estate investment trusts (REITs) and author of several articles on REITs and other issues; practice focus includes transactions involving new markets tax credit and historic tax credit transactions, representing developers, investors and financial institutions in partnership syndication and related financing transactions, and representing clients in partnership taxation, international tax issues in cross-border transactions and issues concerning real estate investment trusts.