Max B. Guggenheim

Partner

Max serves as lead counsel to landlords and tenants nationwide for negotiation of office, retail, medical and industrial leases.

Max’s practice focuses on advising major office and shopping center owners and operators in lease negotiations with national tenants, as well as providing counsel to international companies in office leasing throughout the U.S. and Canada, with prior representation including the world’s largest consulting firm and a prominent infrastructure and design corporation.

Max also has significant experience as the lead attorney for sophisticated sellers and purchasers throughout the country for transactions including multi-family development, retail, agriculture and mixed-use properties, and he regularly handles all aspects of the transaction from contract drafting and negotiation to property due diligence, title and survey review, and financing. Max has served as counsel to a nationally recognized institutional lender in multi-million dollar loans secured by commercial properties and has represented one of the largest retailers in the world in acquisitions and planned development work in the City of Chicago.

Max began his legal career at a Tier 1 construction law firm in Chicago before serving as in-house counsel and operations manager for one of the largest commercial property owners in the state of Illinois. Before joining Benesch, Max worked as an associate at two distinguished law firms in Chicago.