Kathleen M. Gilligan

Partner

Kathleen M. Gilligan is a partner in the firm’s Chicago office. She is a member of the Real Estate and Corporate 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 selected as a leading adviser and included in the prestigious Legal Media Group’s Guide to the World’s Leading Real Estate Lawyers.

Professional Activities and Achievements

Ms. Gilligan is a member of the Chicago Commercial Real Estate Executive Women.

Education

Boston College School of Law (J.D., 1986, cum laude), Uniform Commercial Code Reporter Digest, Staff Writer (1984–1985), Associate Editor (1985–1986)

University of Notre Dame (B.A., American Studies, 1983, cum laude)

Bar Admissions

State of Illinois