Mary Ann Murray

Developing real estate and growing businesses

Mary Ann Murray helps clients strategize and implement real estate projects and transactions to support business growth and development. She represents buyers, sellers, developers, lenders, borrowers, tenants and nonprofits in a wide variety of:

• Real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, leases, real estate development and construction documentation
• Commercial and financial transactions, including project-based and tax-exempt public finance transactions

• Advising on the acquisition and disposition of real estate, including commercial, industrial, medical office and multifamily housing properties.
• Negotiating and drafting real estate development agreements and joint venture agreements for transactions relating to ownership of medical office buildings, industrial properties and low-income multifamily housing.
• Drafting and negotiating leases, on behalf of both landlords and tenants, for office, retail and industrial properties.
• Serving as underwriter's counsel, bank counsel, issuer's counsel and borrower's counsel for tax-exempt, taxable financial public finance and project finance transactions.

• Counseled Fifth Third Securities Inc. as the underwriter on $120 million in bonds that were issued through the Illinois Finance Authority to finance Argonne National Laboratory’s Theory and Computing Sciences Building. The facility is home to the Aurora supercomputer, which is targeted to be the fastest computer in the U.S.

• Representing a medical office developer in the expansion of Midwest and Southwest property developments. This included the sale and recapitalization of several medical office facilities, construction contract negotiation, loan document negotiation, and permitting and municipal approval.
• Represented the lender in the financing of several industrial/commercial properties located throughout the country. Responsible for preparing and negotiating the loan documentation for the lead lender as well as coordinating title, survey and diligence review.
• Represented the lender in the refinancing of a portfolio of multifamily properties located throughout Texas, New York, California and Colorado. Responsible for loan documentation and negotiation, subordination agreements, estoppels, tenant escrow matters, title and survey diligence for the transactions.