Lisa Sauer at Clark Hill PLC, advises local and regional lenders on complex financing transactions. Sauer represents banks and developers in multi-family housing and shopping center projects. Sauer specializes in drafting and negotiating leases and advising clients on business formation matters.
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Lisa Sauer counsels banks and other financial institutions in lending transactions, represents landlords in drafting and negotiating leases, and advises clients on business formation and structuring issues.

Her transactional practice includes representing local and regional lenders in complex financing transactions, including participations, syndications, nursing homes, and health care facilities, small business loans (504 and 7(a)), asset based loans, and commercial and construction mortgages. She has also counseled financial institutions in forbearance agreements and deed in lieu transactions. Lisa’s practice also includes residential and commercial real estate transactions, like-kind exchanges, business sales and acquisitions, advising for-profit corporations, not-for-profit institutions, partnerships and limited liability companies on tax structuring and business planning.

Lisa co-authored “Single-Member LLCs With More Than One Member, 30 JRET 170 (3rd Quarter 2003)” in 2003.

Lisa serves as an adjunct faculty supervisor for The Business Enterprise Law Clinic at The John Marshall Law School.

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Key clients

  • Edwards Realty, Inc.
  • Core Acquisitions, LLC
  • 814 CRE, LLC
  • Breneman Capital LLC
  • North Park Ventures, LLC
  • Backyard Investments LLC
  • JDI Realty, LLC

Work highlights

Represented Backyard Investments LLC in a refinance of a 288-unit ages 55 and over apartment building in Niles, Illinois converted from a former independent living facility with retail space.
Represented North Park Ventures, LLC  in the refinance of a 115-unit, 3 building multi-family apartment building in Chicago, Illinois with a CMBS loan from Barclays Capital Real Estate Inc.