"Kelly Noll is an outstanding lawyer. She is a trusted adviser and is highly skilled at understanding clients' business objectives before applying legal analysis." - Benesch client, Chambers USA
Kelly focuses her practice on representing Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), institutional investors, private equity funds, developers and owners of commercial real estate on a broad range of commercial real estate matters, including acquisitions and dispositions of commercial properties; mortgage and mezzanine financing; entity planning; redevelopment of commercial assets; and leasing of retail and office properties.
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 publicly traded REIT in connection with its $9,590,000 acquisition of three properties in Louisiana, Alabama, and Colorado leased to an automotive repair company.
- 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 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.
- Represented a leading international investment and management firm in a transfer of membership interests to transfer 7 underlying real properties, involving a total value of more $51 million.
- In 2020, Benesch exclusively represented Site Centers Corp. on all lease amendments throughout Site’s portfolio required as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Represented a multi-faceted redevelopment of an existing shopping center located in the Chicago, IL area that encompasses nearly 700,000 square feet. The project includes a land sale to a prominent national retailer that owns an adjacent parcel to allow for a store expansion by that retailer, as well as significant related site work. Benesch is coordinating all aspects of the redevelopment and transaction for the client.
- Represented a fully-integrated real estate developer, owner and manager of retail properties on the acquisition of a distressed shopping center in the Orlando, Florida area valued at over $38 million and on the $28 million loan secured by the shopping center.
- Represented a fully-integrated real estate developer, owner and manager of retail properties on the acquisition of a shopping center in the Fort Worth, Texas area valued at over $58 million and on the $30 million loan secured by the shopping center.
