White & Case LLP

The team at White & Case LLP regularly handles acquisitions, sales, and development together with financings and workouts for a wide collection of domestic and global owners and developers. Team leader Eugene Leone is regularly approached by private equity firms and entrepreneurs for her transaction and structuring expertise which encompasses the likes of joint ventures and leasing; he divides his time between the Chicago and New York offices. In New York, Steven Lutt provides assistance on M&A and distressed debt transactions spanning industrial to hospitality, residential to mixed-use properties. Transactional experts Michael J. McKeever, David J. Pezza and Aaron Potter, noted for his energy and condominium construction and development experience, are also highly active members located in the Chicago office.