Michelle Wagner Ebben

Experience

Michelle Wagner Ebben provides strategic counsel and representation to clients involved in a range of construction, real estate, and project development matters.

Representative work includes complex real estate transactions, resolving zoning and land use issues, public financing and public-private partnerships, easements and licenses, large-scale construction projects, single-family and multi-family developments, construction-related agreements, and handling construction disputes such as contractor defects, lien claims, insurance coverage, and ADR matters.

Recent representations include:

• Assisting industrial large employer in the multifaceted acquisition and development of an environmentally complicated site, including navigating TIF funding and stakeholder interests

• Providing a higher education client with RFP assistance, construction contract drafting and entitlement guidance

• Aiding private real estate investor in tax advantage acquisitions and dispositions of multi-family projects

• Advising a public institution client on bond financing, architect, owner’s representative and construction contracts, and development agreements of a complex, multi-million catalytic project

• Assisting steel fabricator in the purchase and sale of environmentally contaminated property and rezoning

• Training and implementing contracting best practices for renewal energy client across multiple sites in the upper Midwest

• Representing a real estate investment firm in the refinancing of a large, residential housing complex

• Advising agricultural industry client on disposition of complex, multi-parcel sites