Harrison LLP

Partner

Marc Schwartz represents clients in the purchase, sale, development, financing, and leasing of commercial, residential, industrial, and office-type real estate in Illinois and nationwide. He has represented and advised clients in complex real estate financing transactions both on the borrower’s and lender’s side of the transactions and has significant experience involving 1031 exchanges.

Marc has represented several large developers and real estate syndicators in the Chicagoland area in the development and financing of properties for retail, office, commercial, and industrial use. He has also assisted clients, both as landlord and as tenant, in complex lease negotiations.

Before joining Harrison LLP in 2007 to lead the firm’s real estate and banking practices, Marc was the managing partner at Laser, Pokorny, Schwartz, Friedman & Economos, P.C.

Loyola University Medical Center, Chair of the Board of Directors

Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, Chair of the Board of Directors

MacNeal Hospital, Chair of the Board of Directors

Advisory Board of The Chicago Police Memorial Foundation

Chicago Kent College of Law Entrepreneurial Advisory Board

Birthright Israel Foundation, Midwest Regional Director

City of Chicago Blue Ribbon Committee for the Abandoned Property Program

Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, J.D., with honors

University of Illinois, B.A., cum laude