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Lisa Nylen has decades of transactional paralegal experience, with particular emphasis in assisting attorneys with municipal, real estate, and aviation matters. She has worked on municipal bond financings and many aspects of municipal law. In the real estate arena, she assists attorneys with matters involving:

  • commercial leasing;
  • acquisitions;
  • development; and
  • tax assessments, complaints, and appeals.

Lisa also abstracts contracts and creates deadline summaries. She has supervised due diligence for multimillion dollar cross collateral loan refinancings and acquisitions of commercial shopping centers and malls throughout the country. She also provides legal descriptions and prepares correspondence, leases, and lease and purchase agreement amendments. Lisa is familiar with real estate and assessment processes in both Cook County, Illinois and Winnebago County, Illinois.

In the area of aviation, Lisa assists attorneys with airplane lease review and lease extension, litigation discovery, and the purchase and sale of aircraft.

Throughout her career, Lisa has worked as a paralegal for a number of well-known development companies in the Midwest. She first joined Hinshaw as a paralegal in the early 1990s, and returned as a paralegal and analyst in January 2014.

Paralegal Certificate, Davenport Business College, 1987