Jennifer represents clients in real estate acquisitions, financings, development, leasing and dispositions, as well as advises on managing complex real estate-related issues.
Experienced in all types of commercial properties, with a focus on retail, Jennifer has successfully negotiated deals involving offices, shopping center and store leases, industrial properties, multifamily housing, mixed-use facilities and raw land. She also has advised on and negotiated deals for the development and redevelopment of properties and property parcelizations, including the impact of preexisting agreements, easements and other rights and restrictions on property use or development.
A former in-house counsel at a publicly traded real estate investment trust, Jennifer has an insider’s perspective and firsthand experience dealing with the day-to-day challenges and managing the business and legal risks and concerns that arise regarding real estate interests. Representing both buyers and sellers, she understands the issues on both sides of deals and knows how to limit discord, achieve consensus and get deals done.
Representative Experience
- Represented guarantor and its subsidiary borrowers in connection with a $530,000,000 syndicated mortgage loan secured by a portfolio of 35 shopping center assets located across the nation.
- Represented a client in the portfolio review of dozens of shopping centers located throughout the United States with respect to the proposed subdivision of multiple outparcels to be split from existing shopping centers; ensuring the client maintained flexibility while retaining certain portions of the shopping centers.
- Represented a seller in its sale of three office buildings in New Jersey and New York, with a transaction value in excess of $300 million.
- Represented a seller in its sale of two New England shopping centers to a publicly traded REIT, with a transaction value in excess of $300 million.
- Represented a buyer in its $1,935,000 acquisition of a 0.5-acre property in Michigan leased to a tenant operating a pet neurology facility.
- Represented a seller in its $4,100,000 sale of a four-tenant strip center outparcel located in Missoula, Montana.
- Represented buyer in its $32,500,000 acquisition of 22.6-acre shopping center located in Loganville, Georgia, with 26 tenants and anchored by Kroger.
- Represented one of the largest multifamily developers in the country as the seller in its disposition of a Class A multi-family project in Florida totaling $93,500,000.00.
- Represented an NYSE-listed REIT in the sale of an American casual dining restaurant chain in Kentucky and Delaware.
- Benesch is representing one of the country’s largest retail property owners in connection with the sale of a large 400,000 square foot regional shopping center to a private investment company.