Real Estate

Represent national and Chicago-based developers in connection with the acquisition, development, construction, leasing, financing and sale of shopping centers and retail properties throughout the United States.

The developer of the world’s tallest condominium project in connection with regulatory analysis and contracting for international marketing and brokerage services worldwide.

National counsel for a major U.S. financial institution, handling over 100 transactions that include ground, office and retail leases, acquisitions and dispositions and easement agreements.

Represents the fee owner of a large parcel of land in Marinette, Wisconsin. The parcel is being developed into one of the largest hospitals in the Green Bay, Wisconsin metropolitan area. The unique development is essentially a reverse build-to-suit with our client responsible for the acquisition and financing of the building improvements post-construction. Our firm was the lead negotiator of sophisticated ground lease, construction, and financing documents which enabled the hospital to construct a hospital facility, be reimbursed for its construction costs, and lease the property.

Represented developer in connection with the development, financing, construction and leasing of a mixed-use high rise project in Chicago, Illinois. The development is well-known for creating a transportation oriented development in an up and coming neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. We advised the client and negotiated the mixed-use declaration, retail leasing, construction and financing, joint venture agreement with the residential developer and plat of separation necessary for the successful development of the project.

Represented private equity firm in the $210 million acquisition and leaseback of a portfolio of 5 office properties to an international life insurance company and the negotiation of a $136.5 million acquisition loan from a large institutional lender. 

Represented the City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development in the multi-phase redevelopment of a 573-acre lakefront site formerly used for heavy industry into light industrial, planned residential and retail applications.

Represented the U.S. subsidiary of a European insurance company on build to suit lease transaction, development and construction of its new $333 million, 735,000 square foot headquarters in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was the largest single-tenant suburban office development in 13 years.

Represented a national developer in connection with the lease-up of approximately 350,000 square feet of retail space in a Chicago, Illinois urban lifestyle center. Served as lead counsel in negotiating anchor, national, and regional retail leases for substantial new development on Chicago’s south side.

Represents a nationally recognized investment and property management company in connection with the acquisition and financing of multifamily properties throughout the United States.

Represents a prominent Chicago developer in connection with the acquisition, construction, leasing and development of big-boxed anchored shopping centers in the Midwest.

Represents a real estate investment company as its outside counsel in connection with the acquisition and financing of net-leased real estate assets (retail, office, mixed-use, and medical office) in the United States.

Counseled a registered investment advisor in connection with a series of real estate equity funds totaling $550 million, formed for the purpose of investing in mineral assets, wetlands and conservation mitigation banks.

Advised a life insurance company in its management of a series of affiliated real estate funds in its investments in third-party funds - so-called "fund-to-fund investments". Each fund under management had committed capital in excess of $500 million, and the company's twenty-plus "fund-to-fund" investments aggregated in excess of $1 billion.