Kathleen Gilligan
Partner at Arnstein & Lehr
Chicago, Illinois
Kathleen M. Gilligan is a partner in the firm’s Chicago office and is the Chair of the Real Estate Practice and Commercial Real Estate Finance Transactions Practice Groups. Ms. Gilligan has depth and breadth of experience in all areas of acquisition, development, leasing, and disposition of commercial real estate, with an emphasis on representing industrial, corporate, and institutional clients. She has successfully completed numerous complex real estate transactions throughout the country, including the acquisition of multi-site industrial property portfolios for a group of off-shore investors totaling over $600 million in a fifteen-month period, and most recently, the refinancing and restructuring of those portfolios, and dispositions of industrial properties for a multibillion-dollar UK-based industrial conglomerate.
Ms. Gilligan also has extensive experience, at both the national and local levels, in the representation of REITs, shopping center and office building owners, industrial, institutional and office tenants, and real estate investment companies. She has worked extensively in the areas of commercial real estate lending, and insolvency and debt reorganization. Ms. Gilligan routinely advises and represents clients in every aspect of real estate matters, from structuring and negotiating complex commercial transactions to drafting and preparing leases and attendant leasing documents, purchase and sale agreements, and financing instruments. Based upon solid reviews and recommendations by clients, senior practitioners, and in-house counsel in the real estate profession, she has been frequently selected as a leading adviser and included in the prestigious Expert Guides to the World’s Leading Real Estate Lawyers and to the World’s Women in Business Law.
Ms. Gilligan also has extensive experience, at both the national and local levels, in the representation of REITs, shopping center and office building owners, industrial, institutional and office tenants, and real estate investment companies. She has worked extensively in the areas of commercial real estate lending, and insolvency and debt reorganization. Ms. Gilligan routinely advises and represents clients in every aspect of real estate matters, from structuring and negotiating complex commercial transactions to drafting and preparing leases and attendant leasing documents, purchase and sale agreements, and financing instruments. Based upon solid reviews and recommendations by clients, senior practitioners, and in-house counsel in the real estate profession, she has been frequently selected as a leading adviser and included in the prestigious Expert Guides to the World’s Leading Real Estate Lawyers and to the World’s Women in Business Law.
