Justin is a member of the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group and focuses his practice on a wide range of commercial real estate matters, including acquisitions, dispositions, leasing and development.
Justin regularly drafts a variety of transactional documents, including purchase agreements, lease agreements, transfer instruments and security instruments. He also has experience analyzing title, survey and zoning matters.
During law school, Justin represented underserved clients as a certified legal intern for the Notre Dame Economic Justice Clinic. Over the course of two semesters, he advocated for his clients in landlord-tenant disputes, fair housing matters and residential foreclosure actions.
Representative Experience
- Represented a publicly traded REIT in connection with a $495 million sale of a six property portfolio of shopping centers located in Ohio, Florida, Oregon and Arizona, consisting of approximately 2.5 million square feet of gross leasable area, to a joint venture between a state pension fund and Chicago area real estate investment firm.
- Represented a large private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of twenty-one retail/industrial properties in a more than $40 million NNN sale-leaseback portfolio transaction.
- 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 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 publicly traded REIT in its acquisition of three commercial truck repair garages/warehouses in Ohio and Michigan in a $10,250,000.00 sale-leaseback transaction.