Ross Green concentrates his practice in the area of institutional real estate transactions, financings, and real estate capital markets. Mr. Green has had extensive experience representing pension funds, REITs, lenders, joint venture partners, opportunity funds and the sponsors of those funds, and other institutional clients in connection with all phases of the capital formation, financing, acquisition, development, and disposition of commercial real estate, including the negotiation and drafting of joint venture agreements, participating loan documents, ground leases, and multi-party easement and operating agreements.

His experience includes developments and real estate transactions across the United States, in Puerto Rico, and in Europe, including the development, redevelopment, and financing of office buildings, hotels, apartment buildings, and regional shopping centers. He has been involved in the structuring and restructuring of multi-state financings and has negotiated and documented the acquisition and disposition of large, multi-state portfolios of properties. Recently, he represented a REIT client on the acquisition of a significant portion of the Riverside Boulevard residential development on the Hudson River in Manhattan. On behalf of another REIT client, Mr. Green recently drafted and negotiated the joint venture documentation for the development of an office building as part of a planned, mixed use development on the largest remaining tract of developable land in Los Angeles.

Mr. Green's venture work has been varied and extensive. He has represented REITs seeking a financial partner for large, multi-state portfolios of properties, pension funds seeking a partner to acquire and operate multi-state portfolios of properties, investors seeking a partner with development expertise, and clients seeking "true" joint ventures involving the pooling of properties owned by each. Mr. Green has also structured and documented transactions that mimic the features of equity joint ventures using other forms of ownership, such as co-ownership arrangements among investors acquiring specially restructured debt. He has worked on real estate joint ventures in Europe and elsewhere overseas on behalf of U.S.-based investors.

Outside the scope of traditional real estate deals, Mr. Green has negotiated and drafted joint venture agreements for the operation of ancillary businesses in national portfolios of office buildings, options for the conversion of real estate into REIT shares, and credit enhancement arrangements in connection with REIT mergers and spin-offs. He has also drafted the partnership agreements or limited liability company operating agreements for several large real estate-related opportunity funds.

Mr. Green is named in the respected English publication Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, which has said he is a “transactional real estate favorite” of numerous REITs and "a key contact in terms of real estate capital markets."

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• Illinois

会员资格

American Bar Association
Chicago Bar Association
National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts