About Sue
Experienced commercial real estate guidance
For more than three decades, Sue Matejcak has represented institutional investors and corporate real estate clients on the acquisition, disposition, development and operation of commercial properties. Her work covers a wide range of properties, including office, industrial, retail, senior housing, medical office and mixed-use assets. Sue has significant experience:
- Drafting and negotiating purchase and sale agreements and related documents in connection with the transfer of real estate, including access agreements, option agreements, easement agreements, restrictive covenant agreements and shared use agreements.
- Advising clients in connection with real estate aspects of alternative energy projects, including hydrogen power plants, solar facilities and hydroelectric projects.
- Negotiating state and local governmental incentive agreements related to the location of new facilities for corporate real estate clients.
- Preparing and negotiating leases on behalf of both landlords and tenants.
Successes
- Acquisition of a 280,000-square-foot office building in Chicago on behalf of a nonprofit medical center.
- Sale of a portfolio of eight grocery-anchored shopping centers in Florida on behalf of a major institutional investor.
- Negotiation of governmental incentives for construction of a proposed 230,000-square-foot manufacturing facility on behalf of a food industry client.
- Negotiation of office, industrial and retail leases across the country on behalf of a major institutional investor.
Capabilities
Professional Recognitions
- Lawdragon “500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers” (2024)
- Bisnow Power Women Chicago honoree (2022)
- American College of Real Estate Lawyers, fellow (2021)
Professional & Civic Activities
- Habitat for Humanity Chicago, board of directors (2024-2026)
- Commercial Real Estate Executive Women of Chicago, advisory board member (2022-2024), board of directors (2012-2021), president (2020)
- Illinois Bar Association, member
- Chicago Bar Association, member
- Off the Street Club through Time To Read program, reading tutor (2013-2015)
- Working in the Schools, reading tutor (2013-2018)
News & Insights
- Newsletter
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- PresentationCommercial Leases, Their Provision and Pitfalls to AvoidReal Estate Investing 101
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- SeminarCREW Chicago
- Presentation"Legal Lessons Learned from the Pandemic"CREW Chicago Zoom Meeting
- Media Mention
- Media Mention
- WebinarREjournals - Breaking Through the Disruption Webinar Series
- Presentation"Honoring the Top National Women in Real Estate"REjournals - Breaking Through the Disruption (Webinar)
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- Presentation"Top Takeaways from the Women's Forum Leadership Event in Milwaukee"Quarles & Brady Seminar
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- Presentation"To Market, To Market"The Rooftops Conference Chicago 2017
- Article"Closing the Gap - Addressing Gender Bias and Other Barriers for Women in Commercial Real Estate"Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Network
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Education
- Loyola University Chicago School of Law (J.D., 1986)
- Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, editor
- Dean’s List (1984-1986)
- Northern Illinois University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1983)
- Dean’s List (1981-1983)
- Sigma Tau Delta, English Honor Society, member
Bar Admissions
- Illinois