Real Estate

Representative Experience

Office: Purchase, Sales, Development, Leasing

• Manpower Global Headquarters – Represented tenant in build-to-suit lease of 280,000-square-foot building, parking structure and skywalk.
• Edison Technology Center – Represented developer in development, lease and eventual sale of approximately 506,000-square-foot office facility for GE Healthcare in the Milwaukee County Research Park.
• Represented developer in development and lease of 200,000 plus-square-foot office building and parking structure in downtown Milwaukee and in subsequent sale of the development in a syndicated TIC transaction.
• Represented lender in historic tax credit renovation of office building in Schlitz Office Park.
• Represented the developer/landlord in various office headquarters building projects.
• Represented landlord in leases of individual office space in office tower to law firms, investment banking firms, accounting firms and many other tenants.
• Represented Zywave in build-to-suit lease of space as tenant in Mayfair Woods Office Park.

Retail: Purchases, Sales, Development, Leasing

• Multi-Tenant and Big Box Anchored Shopping Centers – Represented buyer of downtown shopping center and developer/seller of 318,000-square-foot redeveloped urban Milwaukee shopping center.
• Major Department Store - Represented national retailer in acquisition, development and leasing of department stores and distribution centers.
• Retail Centers – Represented client in acquisition, expansion, leasing and ultimate sale of retail centers.
• Grocery Stores – Represented regional retailer in acquisition, development, leasing and ultimate sale of grocery stores.
• Leasing – Retail leasing experience includes representing landlords in leases to TJ Maxx, Blockbuster, Pick 'n Save, Borders, Wal-Mart, Starbucks, Michaels, Whole Foods, Panera and other national and local retail tenants.
• Financial Institutions – Experience in branch acquisition and development.

Industrial

• Represented clients in acquisition of printing, paper converting and warehousing properties.
• Represented regional developer in acquisition and lease-up of multiple mixed warehouse/office space in I-94 corridor between Milwaukee and Chicago.
• Represented industrial corporation in sale/leaseback of key operations facility.
• Represented national developer in appearances before local authorities in efforts to gain municipal approvals for industrial sites, including negotiation of TIF financing and developers agreements.

Financing: Representing borrowers and lenders on a wide variety of transactions

• Represented lead lender in $57,000,000 loan to a tenants-in-common sponsor for the acquisition of a corporate office park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
• Represented lender in $20,000,000 loan to the Pabst Family for development of the Pabst Farms in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.
• Represented lender in $30,000,000 loan to Cathedral Place, LLC for development of the Cathedral Place Condominium, a mixed-use office, residential and retail condominium.
• Represented lender in a $36,000,000 loan to New Land Development for construction of the Kilbourn Towers Condominium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
• Represented higher education institution in connection with WHEFA bonds for the development of various campus facilities.
• Regularly serve as local counsel for borrowers and lenders in significant Wisconsin loans, including TIC syndication, acquisitions and refinancing.

Multi-Use Facilities

• Represented seller of land and major unit owner in a $70,000,000 mixed-use project in Madison, Wisconsin.
• $60,000,000 historic tax credit rehab of downtown department store into a multi-use hotel, retail and office project.
• Local counsel to national developer in $75,000,000 acquisition and TIC syndication of mixed-use development.

Health Care Development

• Represented two health care entities in joint development of an approximately 292,000-square-foot biomedical research facility.
• Regularly represent health care service providers in development and construction of hospitals, clinics and other care facilities throughout Milwaukee and Madison metropolitan regions.

Miscellaneous

• Lambeau Field – Represented the Green Bay Brown County Professional Football Stadium District in the $295,000,000 renovation of Lambeau Field.
• Hotel Metro – Historic tax credit rehab of downtown office building into boutique hotel.
• Represented the purchaser of over 76,000 acres of timber land in northern Wisconsin.