Errol Halperin is a senior partner and member of the firm's Audit and Financial Committee and is the co-chair of the firm's Real Estate Capital Markets group. He has been advising major clients in general business and the manufacturing industry as well as in the real estate industry and in the real estate investment trust industry for a number of years.

Mr. Halperin’s practice is concentrated in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, international transactions, real estate law, and federal income tax law. He has also counseled public and private boards of directors, independent directors of public companies and audit and compensation committees of such boards. Mr. Halperin is active in structuring mergers and acquisitions; and complex real estate transactions by private and publicly held companies including real estate investment trusts, and structuring and negotiating international joint ventures and investment transactions. Many of these transactions involved New York Stock Exchange companies. Recently, Mr. Halperin has been involved in forming and structuring real estate investment funds including international real estate funds investing in U.S. real estate and in Europe and Central Europe.

From 1993 to 2002, Mr. Halperin served as a trustee of Equity Residential Properties Trust, one of the largest publicly held REITs in the United States. He is currently a director of Elkay Manufacturing Company, one of Chicago 's largest privately held corporations. Before joining DLA Piper, he was legislation counsel of the Joint Committee on Taxation of the United States Congress and assistant branch chief of the Legislation and Regulations Division of the Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service.

Mr. Halperin is listed in The Best Lawyers in America. He has been designated an Illinois Super Lawyer in a research project jointly conducted by Law & Politics and Chicago magazines.

Admissions

• Illinois
• United States Tax Court

Memberships

• Illinois State Bar Association
• Chicago Bar Association
• National Association of Bond Lawyers
• National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Inc.

Prior Experience

• Trustee, Equity Residential Properties Trust
• Director, Elkay Manufacturing Company
• Legislation Counsel, Joint Committee on Taxation of the United States Congress (July 1977 - January 1979)
• Assistant Branch Chief, Legislation and Regulations Division of the Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service (July 1968 - July 1972)