Over 15 years of experience advising business clients. Involved in the legal, financial and real estate aspects of client business through site acquisitions, zoning, planning and permitting, tax incentives, development, leases, purchases, lending and financing, mergers and acquisitions, franchising, limited partnerships, construction, environmental and general business counsel and litigation.

As real estate attorney and licensed broker Francis assists clients in maximizing opportunities through vision, creativity and steadfast advocacy while limiting exposure to external risks.

Francis is a principal of Soave & Associates, Plc.   He also maintains a real estate consultancy with Transcorp Advisors International, dealing in corporate real estate services, location selection and tax credit and incentive consulting.  Prior to forming his present firms, Francis was the founding shareholder of Nalli & Soave, P.C.  He was previously the corporate real estate director with City Management Corporation, one of the nation's largest environmental firms, with responsibility for several assemblage and site acquisition projects and management of a real estate portfolio valued in excess of one-hundred million dollars.

His prior legal experience includes positions as an associate with O'Reilly, Rancilio, Nitz, Andrews & Turnbull, P.C., Sterling Heights, Michigan, where he served as an assistant city attorney for the Cities of Sterling Heights and Fraser.  He also worked at Thacher, Profitt & Wood, New York, New York, in their corporate and real estate departments.

Francis is a graduate of Boston University School of Law, and Wayne State University. He is admitted to practice law in the states of New York, Massachusetts and Michigan.  He has served as a Planning Commissioner for the City of St. Clair since 1996.