Commercial Real Estate and Commercial Leasing Law
The Law Offices of Nancy Schiavone is a boutique law firm that specializes in commercial real estate transactions, and commercial leasing. The firm provides high quality legal representation in an expeditious and cost-effective manner to a diverse clientele, including publicly traded corporations, closely-held companies and entrepreneurial individuals. The attorneys at the firm have extensive experience and have honed their skills while working in prestigious, national law firms and corporate institutions. The Law Offices of Nancy Schiavone provides its clients with large-firm expertise at competitive rates.
The firm provides advice and counsel regarding all aspects of commercial real estate matters, including acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, development, financing, litigation and foreclosures.
Services
Structuring, negotiating and documenting real estate transactions for shopping centers, office buildings, apartment buildings and mixed-use projects
Representing both institutional and privately held regional and national shopping center landlords with extensive experience in negotiating leases with national shopping center anchors and tenants
Representing shopping center owners in matters pertaining to new construction, re-development, anchor leases, ground leases and reciprocal easement agreements.
Handling all phases of the conversion of existing properties and the development of new properties into residential, office, hotel and mixed-use condominiums, including preparation of required municipal and federal disclosure statements, property reports and condominium declarations
Meet the Attorneys
Nancy Schiavone
Nancy has over thirty years of experience as a commercial real estate attorney. She has significant expertise in commercial leasing and commercial real estate transactions and provides advice and legal counseling for publicly traded corporations, privately held companies and entrepreneurial real estate investors. She has a broad range of commercial real estate experience that she developed in her former roles as associate and partner in the commercial real estate department of Katten Muchin Rosenman, managing attorney for McDonald’s Corporation, and as a development attorney for General Growth Properties, Inc.
Nancy is a 1980 graduate of the University of Illinois receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Communications and a 1983 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law receiving a Juris Doctorate degree. Nancy was a member of the Law Review at DePaul University College of Law. Nancy is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers, the Illinois Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association.
Contact Nancy
nschiavone@nslaw.net
Mary T. Zerega
Mary has been handling real estate transactions and commercial matters for over thirty years. She represents national leasing clients in connection with commercial shopping center leases. Mary was formerly a partner with McDermott, Will & Emery where she concentrated in commercial litigation and commercial bankruptcy. Her experience includes litigating breach of contract, fraud, mortgage foreclosure, breach of fiduciary duty and general tort claims, and representing creditors and debtors in bankruptcy/reorganization cases, adversary proceedings and out-of-court workouts.
Prior to McDermott, Will & Emery, she was associated with Wildman, Harold, Allen and Dixon practicing in the areas of commercial real estate litigation, mortgage foreclosure and commercial bankruptcy. Following law school, Mary was a law clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She is a 1983 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law, where she was a Managing Editor of the DePaul Law Review.
Contact Mary
mzerega@nslaw.net
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