Thomas P. Duffy

Thomas Duffy is a partner in the Business Transactions department of Wildman Harrold and is the head of the Real Estate Practice Group. Tom represents developers in all aspects of real estate development, including real estate acquisitions and dispositions, retail, industrial and mixed use developments and related leasing, construction, permanent and securitized lending, intercreditor agreements with mezzanine and subordinate lenders, debt restructuring, work-outs and real estate litigation. He provides ongoing counsel to preeminent shopping center and industrial developers in all aspects of development, including acquisitions of vacant land and annexation to adjacent municipalities, negotiation of municipal development agreements, Brownfield redevelopment, redevelopment of obsolete retail projects, zoning, TIF financing, governmental tax rebates and abatements, special service area agreements, ground leases, site development agreements and reciprocal easement agreements.

Representative Experience:

Represents Davis Street Land Co. in its acquisition, financing and development of upscale regional malls and mixed-use retail projects in its geographic locations throughout the country; as counsel, has combined several separate retail project ownership entities having different investors that were rolled up into a single unified ownership structure owning several properties; has negotiated and closed significant refinancing for numerous properties and defeasance of several loans
Represented Chelsea CGA, the foremost outlet mall developer in the country, in its acquisition and development of a 450,000-square-foot outlet mall in Aurora, including a $23 million TIF agreement with the City of Aurora
Represents International Airport Centers, a developer that acquires and develops airport proximate and general industrial distribution centers throughout the United States in the acquisition, financing and leasing of the distribution centers
Represents Tucker Development Corp., a highly regarded developer in the Midwest, in multiple significant development projects, including the demalling of an enclosed regional mall in Milwaukee and the subsequent redevelopment of a new retail project at that location
Represents Urban Retail Properties Co., a nationally reorganized development and management company involved in upscale retail and mixed-use projects, in multiple development transactions including acquisition and financing of several mixed-use retail projects and ground-up developments
Represents several banks in connection with construction lending on all types of real estate transactions

Professional Associations:

International Council of Shopping Centers

Leading Lawyers Network, Member

Member, Illinois Super Lawyers

Bar Admissions:

Illinois, 1976

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 1976

Personal Information:

Tom came to Chicago for law school and stayed, raising three children in the area. An avid skier and sailor, Tom also curls and enjoys abstract painting.

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