David Wolff > McDermott Will & Emery LLP > Chicago, United States > Lawyer Profile

McDermott Will & Emery LLP regularly represents tenants, landlords, developers and sponsors on transactions, leasing, joint ventures, and financings across all asset classes. The firm is particularly notable for its advice to large private equity and asset management companies, as well as its broader experience on behalf of REITs, developers, and lenders. Co-head David Wolff is located in Chicago, with fellow co-heads David Herman in New York, and Mal Serure between New York and Los Angeles. Wolff is particularly experienced on structuring, negotiations, and transactions, while Herman brings expertise covering the likes of IPOs, special purpose acquisition companies, workouts and restructurings. Serure, meanwhile, is well-versed across a range of loan work that encompasses the areas of mortgage and mezzanine loan financings, among others. In 2023, Marshall Brozost, Alykhan Shivji, and David Neville left the firm.

McDermott Will & Emery LLP has a sizeable nationwide team, with practice heads David Herman, Mal Serure, and David Wolff located across New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago respectively. The practice is active in financings, restructurings, workouts, joint ventures, construction projects and loans. The firm has diverse clientele ranging from buyers, sellers, borrowers, lenders to landlords and tenants. Wolff has advised a number of private equity sponsors, develops, capital providers, and REITs with commercial real estate transactions. Joining the firm from Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Herman is the go-to for real estate-related companies seeking assistance with M&A, acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, and other transactions.  Representing a range of real estate companies, REITs, and banks, Serure advises both lenders and borrowers on mortgage and mezzanine loan financing. Real estate finance specialists Jeffrey Steiner, Scott Weinberg, and David Broderick are key names to note and are all based in New York.