Mariam represents clients in a wide variety of complex commercial real estate transactions.
Her practice includes the acquisition, disposition, development, financing, and leasing of commercial real estate located throughout the United States.
Prior to attending law school, Mariam taught middle school science for three years in Houston, Texas as a participant in Teach For America.
Representative Experience
- Represented a large private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of 12 properties located in Mississippi and Louisiana and leased to Dollar General for a total aggregate purchase price of over $21,000,000.
- Represented a large private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of 111-acre industrial property in Illinois for greater than $86 million.
- 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 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 industrial property owner and developer in the sale of a property in Indiana for $11,725,000.
- Represented a real estate investment and advisory firm in a $2,050,000 sale of a recently developed Dutch Bros in Lancaster, CA.
- Represented seller in the sale of a recently developed grocery store in California.
- 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.
