Benesch, Real Estate | Chambers USA Profile

About

Provided by Benesch

Benesch’s Real Estate & Environmental Practice Group includes more than 40 real estate professionals and is a recognized leader in the Midwest and throughout the country. We represent buyers, sellers, developers, business owners, landlords, tenants, lenders and borrowers in a full range of services, from organizing and structuring the largest, most complex transactions throughout the country and around the globe to advising clients on their daily portfolio management issues and environmental compliance, regulatory and liability issues.

Benesch has significant experience in providing counsel on property acquisitions and dispositions, as well as the acquisition of distressed debt and assets. Further, we counsel clients in all aspects of complex real estate transactions, including diligence, structure, negotiation and documentation. We have completed hundreds of purchase, sale, and joint venture transactions. We understand the importance of moving a deal forward.

As noted above, our real estate practice is truly national in scope. While clients benefit from the lower rate structure that comes from working with a Midwest-based firm, our experience has no geographic limits in the U.S. Another benefit of the geographic scope of our practice is that we have a very strong network of local counsel who we are able to call upon when needed.

Chambers Review

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Real Estate - Ohio

Band 2

What the Team is Known For

Benesch is respected for its broad transactional practice, with recognized strengths in complex development and acquisition work. The firm also offers expert counsel on financing and dispositions of properties. The team represents a wide variety of clients, including companies in the retail arena. It also maintains an active leasing practice on behalf of its property owner, REIT and developer clients, including providing counsel on amendments, termination agreements and assignments. The firm has core experience pertaining to mixed-use, retail, multifamily, office, industrial and hospitality properties.

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Work Highlights

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Benesch served as national disposition counsel for Seritage Growth Properties, assisting with the sale of over 35 properties in 20 states totalling approximately $500 million.

Strengths

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"The work we have given them is complicated. Their mastery of the details and nuances of various outcomes is masterful."

Real Estate respondent
USA

"We have been very pleased with the ability of Benesch to estimate and deliver within budget."

Real Estate respondent
USA

"The greatest part of the experience is never wondering if we need to engage another firm to handle various matters. Benesch can handle various issues."

Real Estate respondent
USA

"The work we have given them is complicated. Their mastery of the details and nuances of various outcomes is masterful."

Real Estate respondent
USA

"We have been very pleased with the ability of Benesch to estimate and deliver within budget."

Real Estate respondent
USA

"The greatest part of the experience is never wondering if we need to engage another firm to handle various matters. Benesch can handle various issues."

Real Estate respondent
USA

Notable Practitioners

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Jeffrey J Wild

Head of Real Estate

Band 2

Jeffrey Wild is a vastly experienced practitioner who is particularly adept at handling real estate transactions, including project financing and acquisitions.

"Jeffrey has exceptional legal skills and has equally strong business judgment."

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Jared E Oakes

Head of Real Estate

Band 3

Jared Oakes has particular skill in handling complex development and sophisticated financing work, including distressed debt.

"Jared is congenial, courteous, lively and yet very respectful. His background and the diversity of clients he represents means he provides exemplary legal representation."

"Jared is great counsel and a great leader who understands a deal and runs it well. He has depth of knowledge in all things real estate and works hard under pressure."

"Jared is strategic and mixes that with his legal skills. He comes up with creative resolutions."

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Kelly Noll

Band 4

Kelly Noll is held in high regard by clients due to her work assisting with the preparation and negotiation of commercial leases. She possesses additional experience advising clients on real estate acquisitions and dispositions.

"She is a sharp, bright lawyer who can pinpoint issues and find things that someone else would miss. She is also very responsive."

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