Kathleen M. Gilligan

Kathleen M. Gilligan

Partner

T: (312) 201-2307
F: (312) 416-4537
gilligan@wildman.com

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Practice Areas:

Business Transactions
Commercial Leasing
Real Estate

Education:

Boston College School of Law, J.D., 1986, cum laude, Uniform Commercial Code Reporter Digest, Staff Writer (1984–1985), Associate Editor (1985–1986)

University of Notre Dame, B.A., American Studies, 1983, cum laude




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Kathleen M. Gilligan

Kathleen Gilligan is a partner in the Business Transactions Department of Wildman Harrold. She has depth and breadth of experience in all areas of acquisition, development, leasing, and disposition of commercial real estate, with an emphasis on representing industrial, corporate, and institutional clients. Katie has successfully completed numerous complex real estate transactions throughout the country, including recent acquisitions of multi-site industrial property portfolios for a group of off-shore investors totaling over $600 million in a fifteen-month period, and dispositions of industrial properties for a multibillion-dollar UK–based industrial conglomerate. Katie also has extensive experience, at both the national and local levels, in the representation of REITs, shopping center and office building owners, developers, industrial, institutional and office tenants, and real estate investment companies. Katie has also worked extensively in the areas of commercial real estate lending, and insolvency and debt reorganization. She routinely advises and represents clients in every aspect of real estate matters, from structuring and negotiating complex commercial transactions to drafting and preparing leases and attendant leasing documents, purchase and sale agreements, and financing instruments. Based upon solid reviews and recommendations by clients, senior practitioners, and in-house counsel in the real estate profession, Katie has been selected as a leading adviser and included in the prestigious Legal Media Group's Guide to the World's Leading Real Estate Lawyers.

Representative Experience:

  • Represented a leading Australian real estate group and its joint venture partner in the acquisition, within a fifteen-month period, of 76 industrial properties in the greater metropolitan Chicago area, totaling over $600 million. As a result of a recent amendment to the U.S–Australia income tax treaty, which reduced the U.S. tax withholding rate for REIT dividends from 30 percent to 15 percent, the client was motivated to invest in the U.S. real estate market through the use of REITs; this work, which also involved a public offering in Australia, and the use in the United States of a double-REIT structure, was among the first of its kind to be undertaken in the United States
  • Served as local counsel to a New York–based real estate investment company in its $100+ million acquisition of a trophy office building on LaSalle Street in Chicago
  • Represents publicly traded, multi-billion dollar UK–based Invensys plc in all aspects of commercial real estate law, including build-to-suit transactions, dispositions, leasing, subleasing, easements and licenses
  • Represents a well-known Chicago college in all of its real estate needs, including acquisitions of additional college buildings, leasing of office, commercial and dormitory facilities, and providing counsel for issues arising from the college’s one million square-foot real estate portfolio in the Chicago metropolitan area

Professional Associations:

Member, Chicago Commercial Real Estate Executive Women

Listed in Guide to the World’s Leading Real Estate Lawyers published by Legal Media Group (2004-2008)


Bar Admissions:

Illinois, 1990

Maine, 1986


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