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Areas of Practice
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Representative Experience
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Professional/Civic Activities
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Speaking Engagements
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Bar Admissions
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Education
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Achievements
Areas of Practice
Gregory R. Andre is a partner with over 20 years of extensive experience in commercial real estate law, including design and construction contracts and disputes, land use and development, leasing and sale-leasebacks, acquisitions and sales and related matters involving properties located throughout the United States.
Mr. Andre has experience with major urban and suburban office buildings, retail centers and malls, hotels, hospitals, senior housing, master-planned communities, golf courses, commercial mixed-use projects, industrial and manufacturing facilities, biofuel facilities and public utilities, airports, highways and infrastructure.
Representative Experience
Design and Construction Contracts
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$300 million Senior Living Campus
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$200 million Urban High-Rise Office Building
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$200 million Urban High-Rise Mixed-Use Project
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$140 million Hotel Waterpark
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$120 million High-Rise Senior Living Project
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Several $90 to $120 million Hotel and Conference Centers
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Golf Course and Clubhouse Development
- $70 million Hospital Multi-Phase Expansion Project
- $60 million Biofuel Facility
- General Aviation Airport, including Flight Terminal, Control Tower, Jet Hangars, Runways and Infrastructure
Land Use and Development
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2,200,000 square foot Office, Hotel and Retail Development on 120 Acre Tollway Interchange Site
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6,000 Home Active Adult Retirement Community on 2,000 Acres
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$140 million Hotel Waterpark
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1,800 acre Master-Planned Community
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$175 million Hospital
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185,000 square foot Destination Retail Store
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$100 million Hospital Addition
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400 acre Residential Golf Course Community
Leases and Sale-Leasebacks
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Worldwide Leasing for International Firm with 14 million square feet of Office Space
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300,000 square foot Industrial Facility Lease
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90,000 square foot Warehouse/Distribution Facility Lease
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Numerous Major Office and Retail Leases
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Sale-Leaseback Restructuring of $1 billion Portfolio of Numerous Owned and Leased Properties for a Warehouse/Distribution Company
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Sale-Leaseback Restructuring of $200 million Portfolio of Numerous Owned and Leased Properties for a Trucking Company
Acquisitions and Sales
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$125 million Sale of Office and Industrial Building Portfolio to UPREIT
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Numerous acquisitions and sales of office buildings, retail centers, hotels, apartment buildings, industrial facilities and large tracts of land, many in the $25 million to $100 million range
Publications
- "Negotiating Construction Contracts," chapter in book titled Construction Law: Transactional Considerations by the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 2010
- "Mining the Corporate Balance Sheet for Real Estate Equity," K&L Gates Real Estate Alert, April 2010.
- "How to Close the Insurance Gap on Architectural Design Defects," National Real Estate Investor, January 2008.
- "Selecting The Appropriate Delivery System and Contractor with Construction Contract Checklist," Construction Law Handbook, 2008.
- "Design and Construction Contracts," Commercial Contracts Treatise, 2008
- "How to Close the Insurance Gap on Architectural Design Defects," National Real Estate Investor, 2008
- "Cross Examination Comes to Zoning Hearings," Real Estate Chicago, 2002
- "New AIA Form of Architect Agreement: Changes Made and Changes Needed," Construction Business Review, 1998
- "Sale and Leaseback Transactions," Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 1996.
- "Build + Sell + Leaseback = More Profits!," Construction Business Review, 1996
- Structuring Real Estate Sale-Leasebacks: Legal and Tax Planning With Forms, (co-author of a 500-page treatise), 1992.
- "Sale and Leaseback Transactions," Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 1990.
- "Township Open Space Act," Chicago Lawyer, February 1990
- "Real Estate Sale and Leaseback Transactions and the Risk of Recharacterization in Bankruptcy Proceedings," Real Property, Probate and Trust Journal, 1989. (A nationally recognized article which was cited extensively and relied upon by the Second Circuit United States Court of Appeals to decide a major case.)
- "Tender Offers for Corporate Control: A Critical Analysis and Proposals for Reform," The Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, 1987.
- "Constructive Insider Liability and the Arm’s Length Transaction," The George Washington Law Review, 1985.
Professional/Civic Activities
Speaking Engagements
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"The AIA has done it again! The 2007 Design and Construction Forms Have Replaced the 1997 Forms: What Has Changed and What You Need to Know," seminar sponsored by Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP (speaker on panel). 2008
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"Design and Construction Contracts", seminar sponsored by Georgia Technical College of Architects (speaker). 2003
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"AIA Contract Documents: The New Edition," seminar sponsored by Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP (speaker on panel). 1998.
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"Construction Delivery Systems," seminar sponsored by Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP (speaker on panel). 1997.
Bar Admissions
Education
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J.D.,
George Washington University Law School
(1985)
(with honors; Law Review member)
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B.S.,
Boston College
(1982)
(magna cum laude)
Achievements
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2010 Legal 500
- 2009 Who's Who Worldwide
- 2006 Top Illinois Super Lawyer
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