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Shaping Skylines, Building Futures: Your Nationwide Guide to the Real Estate Industry's Shifting Landscape

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Why Hinshaw? Your Success is Our Blueprint

In the ever-evolving world of real estate, success isn’t just about location—it’s about vision, strategy, and the right team. Your business requires a deep understanding of national trends, regulatory shifts, and innovative financing solutions. At Hinshaw, we immerse ourselves in the industry, providing the insights and guidance to turn challenges into opportunities.

Coast-to-Coast Experience, Local Insight: With a presence from Minneapolis to Miami and New York to Los Angeles, we offer a national perspective with on-the-ground local knowledge. Our broad reach ensures you benefit from both big-picture industry trends and the nuanced understanding of regional markets.

Comprehensive Industry Focus: Real estate isn’t just about property—it’s about potential. Success demands navigating complex regulations, securing financing, and planning for long-term growth. Our multidisciplinary approach integrates experience in sales and acquisitions, financing, development, and litigation, providing 360-degree support.

Proven Track Record: From large-scale development projects to high-stakes litigation, multi-million dollar acquisitions to complex financing solutions, we’ve helped clients successfully navigate every aspect of real estate. Whether you’re closing a $225 million office tower sale, securing financing for a mixed-use development, converting office space to multi-family housing, or resolving a landlord-tenant dispute, we bring the experience and strategic insight to turn your vision into reality—no matter the scale or complexity.

Representative Experience

Maximizing Value in Minneapolis: Facilitated a $225 million sale of the RBC Gateway Office Tower, enabling our client to capitalize on a prime asset in a competitive market.
Streamlining Multi-State Operations: Orchestrated a $36.5 million sale and leaseback across 17 properties in 13 states, allowing our client to optimize their real estate portfolio while maintaining operational continuity.
Unlocking Hidden Potential in Florida: Transformed a $15 million property into a $5 billion asset through innovative restructuring, helping our client realize unprecedented value in Bal Harbour.
Office to Multi-Family Conversion: Guided a $97 million conversion of a 25-story office tower into 186 residential apartments in St. Paul, leveraging complex financing to breathe new life into an underutilized property.
Navigating Cross-Border Complexities: Facilitated a $100 million reorganization of beneficial ownership involving international entities, ensuring smooth property transfer while addressing intricate tax implications.
Expanding Industrial Footprint: Assisted in the $54 million acquisition and construction of a 425,000 sq ft distribution center near Chicago, supporting our client's strategic business expansion.
Preserving Healthcare Access: Managed the $32.3 million sale of multiple healthcare assets out of bankruptcy, ensuring continued community access to vital medical services.
Securing Prime Development Land: Acquired a $6.8 million industrial-zoned property in Florida through a 1031 exchange, positioning our client for future development opportunities.
Optimizing Hospitality Assets: Restructured $34 million in real estate secured debt for a Miami hotel property, providing our client with improved financial flexibility.
Facilitating International Presence: Negotiated a $5 million long-term lease for consulate office space in Chicago involving complex sovereign immunity issues to support our client's diplomatic mission.

Areas of Focus

Partnering for Long-Term Success

At Hinshaw, we don’t just respond to the real estate market—we help shape it. Our team is committed to delivering legal strategies that drive business growth, strengthen investments, and support the communities where our clients build. Whether you’re launching a skyline-defining development or reimagining an existing asset, we provide the legal guidance to turn vision into reality.

Today, the law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP announced the publication of its updated Real Estate Deal Book, which highlights some of the major commercial real estate deals closed by the firm’s commercial transactions practice in 2023.