dgregg@ggulaw.com
Selected Transactions
Business Acquisitions and Dispositions
- Acquisition of distributor businesses.
- Acquisition and sale of multi-site retail operations.
- Acquisitions and dispositions of lines of businesses (commercial products, retail, health and medical care).
- Acquisitions and dispositions of manufacturing businesses.
- Sale of developer and manager of office buildings (20 office buildings).
- Sale of developer and manager of shopping center (43 regional shopping malls).
Joint Ventures
- Joint venture agreement and related development, management, and option arrangements for the development of regional shopping malls.
- Joint production agreement and related transactions with automobile manufactures and distributors in connection with the development of minivans.
- Joint production agreement with automobile distributors in connection with development of utility vehicles.
- Joint venture of hotel operation properties.
General Business Advice
- Purchase and sale agreements for goods and services.
- Marketing and licensing agreements.
- Distribution arrangements.
Real Estate
- Acquisitions and dispositions of real property, including undeveloped land, office buildings, retail operations, and portfolios of operating properties.
- Leases and subleases of office, commercial and industrial space in urban and suburban locations.
- Exchanges of real estate, including retail, manufacturing, and warehouse facilities.
Financing
- Secured loans for acquisition, construction, and development of office, retail and industrial properties.
- Secured loans in connection with mergers, acquisitions and leveraged buyouts.
- Secured acquisition loans for joint ventures.
- Mezzanine financing for office, apartment, and retail properties.
- Assumptions of lending facilities.
- Equipment leasing and financing for medical equipment.
- Acquisitions of loans, mortgages, and related collateral.
- Securitized financing.
- Synthetic lease for research facility in Rolling Meadows, Illinois.
Community Service
- Member of the Board of Education of the River Forest School District (1999-2007; President 2005-07).
- Class Agent, Class of 1981, University of Michigan Law School.
- Co-Chair, Law School Class Twentieth Reunion Committee.
- Member, River Forest Schools Finance Action Team (1998).
- Member, Search Committee for Illinois Spina Bifida.
