Anthony is a member of the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group. His practice focuses on a wide range of commercial real estate matters, including the acquisition, disposition, leasing, financing, and development of real property.
Prior to joining Benesch, Anthony gained extensive experience as a judicial extern for Justice Michael P. Donnelly of the Supreme Court of Ohio and for Judge Donald C. Nugent of the United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio. He also adds valuable insight from his work clerking in the legal department of a Fortune 500 electric utility company and a Cleveland-based complex civil litigation firm.
Representative Experience
- Represented a public, world-leading polymers group in its acquisition of a provider of high-quality thermoplastic elastomers for all size orders across the United States.
- Represented a large real estate private equity fund through its communications infrastructure company in multiple acquisitions in 2023, including 42 properties and related wireless communication facilities in California, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin. These acquisitions included over one hundred tenant interests and a combined value of over $100 million.
- Represented one of the nation’s largest multifamily owners in connection with numerous dispositions of apartment complexes throughout Michigan, having an aggregate transaction value in excess of $60 million. The sale transactions each included the defeasance of existing debt.
- Represented private equity client as lender in three separate acquisition and construction loans collectively totaling $47,525,000 secured by multi-family property located in Dallas, Texas, in connection with the firm’s representation of that private equity client in the negotiation of and entry into the following joint ventures: (a) negotiation of a preferred equity investment into an upstream issuer, and (b) negotiation of a joint venture to acquire real estate, representing the preferred investment issuer as the capital partner, totaling an additional approximate $18 million.