Client Successes

Assisted business in negotiating loans with financial institutions.

Represented the purchaser of an environmentally impaired urban manufacturing facility for conversion to a corporate headquarters.

Represented purchaser in the sale of construction product distribution, installation and maintenance business.

Represented owners in the sale of a multi-location retail equipment leasing company.

Represented owner in the sale of a $36M construction product distribution, installation and maintenance business.

Negotiated and documented hundreds of multi-million dollar equipment lease finance transactions on behalf of a national equipment finance company.

Represented a community bank in a $3.6 million condominium construction loan.

Represented a hospitality developer in conventional and mezzanine loans in multiple phases of a resort facility.

Represented a national lender in a $20 million credit facility to fund an ESOP transaction for a multistate auto equipment wholesaler.

Acted as purchaser’s counsel in a veterinarian’s acquisition of its office building out of foreclosure.

Acted as lender’s counsel in a $15 million aggregate financing of three assisted living and memory care facilities.

Represented a regional leader in the refinancing of $130 million debt secured by a water park resort.

Attorney Ed Lawton and Attorney Don Murn represented a client in the successful completion of a $26.5 million refinance transaction. The transaction required the client to defease their existing mortgage loan. Attorney Lawton and Attorney Murn dealt with the complex array of loan and defeasance documents on behalf of their client to complete the transactions and also guided the client and the other parties through the complex multi-tier ownership structure that governed the underlying real estate asset.

Successfully defended limited liability company in action seeking temporary restraining order and other relief arising out of purchase of a downtown Chicago commercial building.

Represented the purchaser of a parking garage complex from a municipal authority

Laura Peck

Represented the seller of a horse farm and stable operation

Laura Peck

Acted as purchaser’s local counsel in a $300,000,000 multistate acquisition of shopping centers

Assisted as underwriter’s counsel in a $130 million bond issuance by a state authority

Represented a local lender in a $15 million leasehold financing of a public/private educational facility

Represented a national lender in a $37 million credit facility to fund an ESOP transaction for a multistate convenience store operator