Mary Ann Murray

Experienced, strategic legal counsel to develop real estate and grow businesses

Mary Ann Murray advises on real estate development, as well as real estate and project financing. She handles matters ranging from highly complex real estate finance transactions and varied loan originations, to tax-exempt and taxable public finance and project finance transactions, to the purchase, sale, development, leasing and operation of commercial real estate properties. Her clients include:

• Buyers, sellers and developers
• Lenders and borrowers
• Commercial banks, investment banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions
• Property owners and tenants
• Nonprofits

Mary Ann is relentlessly focused on helping her clients identify and execute the most strategically savvy options to ensure their real estate projects and transactions contribute to the long-term growth of their business.

• Advising on the acquisition and disposition of real estate, including commercial, industrial, medical office and multifamily housing properties.
• Assisting with commercial and financial transactions, including project-based and tax-exempt public finance transactions.
• 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. Additionally, Mary Ann aids property owners and tenants in negotiating and drafting commercial office and medical office leases for space within single tenant buildings, as well as all other types of leasing arrangements, including ground leases and subleases.
• 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, for facilities in sectors including health care, education, religion, sports and entertainment.
• Handling the full range of loan originations, including mortgage loans for securitization, mezzanine loans, bridge loans, construction loans and credit facilities. In addition, Mary Ann counsels on real estate finance matters such as balance sheet lending, syndicated loan transactions, construction loans, and private equity 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.