Chad represents prominent developers, lenders, tenants, investors, and business owners nationwide and offers sophisticated counseling, strategic guidance, and tactical execution on various real estate and business transactions.
His real estate practice routinely involves acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, investment, venture structuring, financing, development, and construction across real estate asset classes, including multi-family apartments, office buildings, senior housing, retail stores and restaurants, hotels, shopping centers, warehouses, manufacturing facilities, condominiums, parking garages, and mixed-use projects.
Outside his real estate practice, entrepreneurs, businesses, and family offices at all stages and of various sizes in industries ranging from conventional products and services to cutting-edge technology rely on Chad to provide astute forward-thinking guidance and legal protection on initial formation, a spectrum of day-to-day operating, financing, and contractual issues, as well as major capital events.
Chad is result-driven and solution-oriented. His goal is to form long-lasting relationships and become a trusted advisor to his clients. He is always mindful of the challenges and time constraints facing real estate and business owners and has a deep understanding of the market and best practices. He prides himself on his ability to quickly assess the playing field and effectively and efficiently close transactions on time, within budget, and on fair and favorable terms.
His is a careful listener and is recognized for being detail-oriented, dynamic, passionate, tenacious, savvy, and creative in quarterbacking business strategy and shielding clients from adversity. He has an entrepreneurial mindset and represents his clients as if he were a partner in the deal.
Prior to NGE, Chad was a partner at other large law firms. Prior to practicing law, he oversaw the redevelopment of a mixed-use high rise in the Chicago “Loop” and served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Ronald A. Guzman in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.