Evan is a member of the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group and focuses his practice on a wide range of commercial real estate matters, including acquisitions, dispositions, leasing and development.
Representative Experience
- Represented a global investment firm in the acquisition of a portfolio of three logistics and warehouse properties located in Ohio and Indiana, comprising more than 1.5 million square feet, for more than $135 million.
- Represented a large private credit lender on two loan facilities totaling $197.5 million, secured by 59 properties across more than 20 states. Benesch served as co-counsel, leading all diligence efforts and handling recordable loan documents and opinion workstreams.
- Represented a publicly traded REIT as buyer’s and landlord’s counsel in a more than $22 million sale-leaseback transaction involving five auto repair properties in Nebraska, Tennessee, Illinois and Alabama.
- Represented the seller in a $35.5 million disposition of a 600-unit apartment complex in Battle Creek, Michigan.
- Represented a privately owned REIT in the disposition of a 1.1 million-square-foot mall for $57.5 million.
- Represented a publicly traded REIT in its acquisition of a Tires Plus auto repair property in Peoria, Illinois.
- Represented a publicly traded REIT in a $150+ million acquisition of 23 strip shopping centers in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Arizona, Texas, Virginia and Indiana.
- Represented publicly trade REIT in connection with a sale-leaseback transaction in which it acquired five Christian Brothers Automotive sites in Ohio, Florida, Illinois, and Nebraska for $21,000,000 +.
- Represented Blackstone in connection with its acquisition of a portfolio of 228 mortgage loans from Atlantic Union Bank for approximately $2 billion.
- Represented a large privately owned REIT in connection with its sale of a shopping center in Ann Arbor, Michigan for over $53 million.