Isabella focuses her practice on a wide range of commercial real estate matters, which include development financing, acquisitions, dispositions, land use, and transactional and compliance-based environmental matters. She regularly represents a variety of clients, ranging from multifamily and retail owners /operators to companies in the communication infrastructure and industrial sectors.
Isabella has worked on several borrower-side development financing and related acquisition transactions for multifamily projects located nationwide. In addition, she also has extensive experience performing environmental diligence to evaluate environmental conditions in the transactional context and assist clients with regulatory compliance when remediation is required. Isabella has assisted clients with a variety of projects to advise on land use and real estate-related regulatory compliance matters, including navigating different land use-related mechanisms of local governments.
While in law school, Isabella served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Dan A. Polster of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Prior to joining Benesch, Isabella gained professional experience at Cleveland 2030 District, Cleveland State University’s Center for Economic Development, and as a Blank Fellow at Oberlin College.
Representative Experience
- Represented a private equity buyer in its acquisition of a wholesale distributor of pipes, valves, and fittings for an enterprise value of $190,000,000.00.
- Represented Blue Marlin Partners in acquiring a stake in Mo' Bettahs, a Hawaiian-Style Barbecue restaurant chain.
- Represented a large private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of eleven retail locations across two states in a more than $22 million NNN sale-leaseback portfolio transaction.
- Represented a leading international investment and management firm by performing all diligence and related needs for their purchase of loans in default for a total of over $600 million and subsequent foreclosures, involving over 70 properties in California.
- Represented a large real estate private equity fund through its communications infrastructure company in multiple acquisitions in 2023, including 42 properties and related wireless communication facilities in California, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin. These acquisitions included over one hundred tenant interests and a combined value of over $100 million.
- Represented a large real estate private equity fund through its communications infrastructure companies in multiple acquisitions of more than one hundred telecommunications assets and related real property interests in California, Florida, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin for a total of over $75 million.
- Represented client in the purchase of 5 properties that were recently developed in Michigan and Illinois and newly leased to tenants.
- Represented one of the nation's leading real estate owners in a multi-state acquisition of five healthcare properties for over $24,000,000.00.