Real Estate Leasing Transactions

Experience

• Tenant leasing transactions

• Represented the anchor tenant in the construction and leasing of approximately 555,000 square feet of office and retail space in a newly constructed Class A office tower in Chicago.
• Represented the anchor tenant in the construction and leasing of approximately 400,000 square feet of office and retail space in a newly constructed Class A office tower in Charlotte.
• Represented the tenant in the leasing of approximately 386,000 square feet of office and retail space in the redevelopment of an existing office building in Midtown, New York City.
• Represented the anchor tenant in a lease modification and restructuring transaction, reducing the tenant’s leased premises from 100 percent of the total premises to 85 percent of the total premises in a 1.1 million-square-foot office complex.
• Represented the tenant in a lease modification/restructuring transaction involving 87,000 square feet of office space located in Lower Manhattan in New York City.

• Landlord leasing transactions

• Represented a real estate developer and operator in the negotiation of more than 100 office and retail space leases in more than 16 office buildings located throughout downtown Chicago.
• Represented the owner in the negotiation of more than 20 office leases of an office tower located on South Wacker Drive in Chicago.
• Represented a real estate development company and its owner in the negotiation and structure of a transaction to move leading online footwear and clothing retailer's 1,000-plus employee corporate campus from suburban Henderson, Nevada, to downtown Las Vegas.
• Represented an institutional investor in leasing 387,000 square feet of industrial space to a third-party logistics provider.

• Sale-leaseback transactions

• Represented a national hospital system in the sale/leaseback of a portfolio of hospitals in multiple states and in forming a joint venture with a university to own and operate a hospital and research center.
• Represented a corporate real estate investor for the forward purchase and leaseback of an international hotel.
• Represented the seller/tenant in connection with the sale and leaseback of three data centers consisting of nearly one million square feet.
• Represented the seller/tenant in connection with the sale and leaseback of approximately 250,000 square feet in an office tower in Troy, Michigan.

• Ground leasing and capital lease financings

• Represent a finance company in multi-property and multi-jurisdictional acquisitions of properties leased under net bondable-style leases.
• Represent a real estate fund in the negotiation of a ground lease for a New York City hotel development.
• Represented an international banking and financial services provider in a credit tenant lease financing for the development of two office facilities occupied by Dow Chemical.
• Represented an international banking and financial services provider in credit tenant lease financing for the development of a production facility occupied by Monsanto.
• Represented an international banking and financial services provider in the development and leasing of its retail centers throughout the United States.