Experienced commercial real estate guidance

For more than three decades, Sue Matejcak has represented institutional investors and corporate real estate clients on the acquisition, disposition and development of commercial properties. Her work covers a wide range of properties, including office, industrial, retail, senior housing, medical office and mixed-use assets. Sue has significant experience:

• Drafting and negotiating purchase and sale agreements and related documents in connection with the transfer of real estate, including access agreements, option agreements, easement agreements, restrictive covenant agreements and shared use agreements.
• Advising clients in connection with real estate aspects of alternative energy projects, including solar, wind and hydroelectric projects.
• Drafting and negotiating leases on behalf of both landlords and tenants.
• Negotiating state and local governmental incentive agreements related to the location of new facilities for corporate real estate clients.

Sue is the Illinois chair of the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group.

Bar Admissions

• Illinois

Education

• Loyola University Chicago School of Law (J.D., 1986)
  • Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, editor
  • Dean’s List (1984–1986)

• Northern Illinois University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1983)
  • Dean’s List (1981–1983)
  • Sigma Tau Delta, English Honor Society, member

• "Closing the Gap - Addressing Gender Bias and Other Barriers for Women in Commercial Real Estate"
• "Diversity: The Business Advantage - Best Practices for Gender Equity and Inclusion in Commercial Real Estate"
• "Honoring the Top National Women in Real Estate"
• "Legal Lessons Learned from the Pandemic"
• "To Market, To Market"
• "Top Takeaways from the Women's Forum Leadership Event in Milwaukee"
• "Uncharted waters: The impact of the coronavirus crisis on commercial real estate — a US law perspective"
• Commercial Leases, Their Provision and Pitfalls to Avoid

Seminar

• Honoring the Top National Women in Real Estate
• Legal Lessons Learned from the Pandemic