Retail

• Represents 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.
• Represents a publicly traded REIT in connection with its redevelopment of shopping centers throughout the United States.
• Represents several national retailers in connection with their respective leasing activities 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 holding company to national restaurant concepts controlling more than 100 properties throughout the Midwest.
• Represents a world renowned university in connection with its material leasing activities in the United States.
• Represents a national developer in connection with its development of a 300,000 square foot retail development in suburban Chicago, Illinois.
• 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.
• Represented a restaurant operator/developer in a 24 property sale/leaseback, and simultaneously closed $20,000,000 in loans secured by the assets of entities operating 63 fast food restaurants, including Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken, T.G.I. Friday’s, Blaze Pizza, Old Chicago, and Long John Silver’s.
• Represents a publicly traded REIT in connection with the redevelopment of its retail properties in the Midwest.
• Represents a New York based developer in connection with the redevelopment of a retail property in the suburbs of Chicago.

Mixed Use

• Represents developers in connection with the development, financing, construction, and leasing of mixed-use high rise projects in the Midwest. Mr. Traub advises the clients and negotiates mixed-use declarations, retail and office leases, construction and financing, joint venture agreements, and plats of separation necessary for the successful development of the projects.
• Represents an internationally renowned construction company in connection with the development of mixed-use development projects in the metropolitan Chicago area.
• Represents a developer in connection with the refinancing and recapitalization of a 1 million square foot mixed-use development in Munster, Indiana. The project contains office, industrial, retail, medical office, and manufacturing uses.

Industrial

• Represents an international defense contractor in connection with its leasing needs in various locations throughout the United States.
• Represents an international steel processer in connection with its real estate needs throughout the United States.
• Represents a Fortune 100 automotive supplier in connection with its real estate and leasing activities throughout North America.

Office

• Represents large tenants in connection with their office leasing activities.
• Represents a prominent Chicago developer in connection with its office leasing activities in Chicago.

Other

• Represents property owners and banks in connection with the acquisition and disposition of distressed real estate assets.
• 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 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.
• Represented tenant-in-common investor groups in the workout of tenant-in-common investments in commercial, industrial, office, and multi-family residential real estate throughout the United States.