Strategic and tailored real estate counsel for institutional investors
Alexander Longan advises institutional and private equity investors across a broad range of property classifications, including senior housing, health care real estate, commercial and office buildings, and multifamily housing developments, with a focus on:
- Large portfolio acquisition and disposition
- Development
- Leasing
Alexander offers actionable guidance and efficient solutions, helping clients navigate complex negotiations to reach their objectives. He adopts a direct, goal-focused approach, ensuring that legal strategies support the client’s business priorities.
Experience in Action
- Provides strategic counsel on a variety of real estate deals, ranging from simple purchases and sales to more complex transactions involving development, joint ventures, ground leases and commercial condominiums.
- Advises clients in the senior housing sector on all stages of the process, including acquisitions, dispositions, development, management agreements and compliance with relevant licensing and regulatory frameworks.
- Advises clients through the development and sale of mixed-use projects, including negotiating essential documents such as declarations of covenants, conditions and restrictions to ensure smooth project execution.
- Advises landlords and tenants through a wide array of leasing matters, including drafting standard lease agreements for multitenant office properties, negotiating customized terms and structuring agreements for pre-construction office leases.
Successes
- Advised the purchaser of a joint venture interest in senior housing facilities totaling over $1.1 billion.
- Advised a real estate investment trust in the purchase and sale of modern logistics facilities totaling over $250 million.
- Represented the lender in the acquisition-financing of multifamily housing developments totaling over $535 million.
Education
- University of Illinois College of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2013)
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (B.A., 2004)
Bar Admissions
- Illinois