About Michael E. Margolis

Michael Margolis is a practical, solutions-oriented attorney with experience in big law as well as in-house at a large, international real estate investment firm. He represents real estate developers, investors, lenders and operators across a broad spectrum of sophisticated commercial real estate matters. His practice encompasses acquisitions and dispositions, joint venture structuring, preferred equity investments, development projects, financing arrangements, long-term ground leases and commercial space leasing. Michael understands what is important to his clients and how to best protect their interests while ensuring that the deal gets done.

Integrating legal strategy with commercial goals

Michael's in-house experience enables him to understand what matters most to clients on either side of the table. As a trusted advisor, he delivers pragmatic, commercially sound counsel, prioritizing an understanding of each client’s core business goals and tailoring his legal strategy to advance those objectives effectively. His detail-oriented, business-minded approach is grounded in his work on sophisticated and complex transactions across a range of asset types.


Representative Experience

  • Represented a real estate developer in the formation of a preferred equity joint venture and construction financing to develop a multifamily residential project in Dallas, Texas.
  • Represented a private commercial real estate credit investment firm and its affiliates in connection with a loan secured by a prominent retail shopping center in Southern California.
  • Represented a real estate investment firm in a portfolio sale-leaseback transaction involving fitness facilities in Illinois, Texas, and Kansas.
  • Represented a joint venture between a leading private investment firm and a national developer, builder, and investment manager in the acquisition and net leasing of a cold storage/freezer facility in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Represented a real estate investment firm in the acquisition of a regional distribution center in Wisconsin.
  • Represented a real estate investment firm in the acquisition of a mission-critical defense manufacturing facility, net-leased to a defense contractor in Massachusetts.
  • Represented a real estate investment firm in a sale-net-leaseback of a portfolio of bus depot/terminal facilities leased to a national student transportation provider.
  • Represented a financial institution in the acquisition of a net-leased commercial property in Ohio.
  • Represented a real estate investment management firm in the financing of a net-leased asset portfolio.
  • Represented a real estate investment management firm in the acquisition of a net-leased retail asset in Missouri.
  • Represented a real estate investment management firm in the financing of a net-leased industrial portfolio of properties in Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
  • Represented a real estate investment management firm in the acquisition of a net-leased hospital portfolio in Florida.