Justin 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.
Justin regularly drafts a variety of transactional documents, including purchase agreements, lease agreements, transfer instruments and security instruments. He also has experience analyzing title, survey and zoning matters.
During law school, Justin represented underserved clients as a certified legal intern for the Notre Dame Economic Justice Clinic. Over the course of two semesters, he advocated for his clients in landlord-tenant disputes, fair housing matters and residential foreclosure actions.
Representative Experience
- Represented a logistics company in the sale of an approximately 1 million-square-foot warehouse facility in the Louisville, Kentucky area for more than $70 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 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.
- Represented Brookfield Asset Management in connection with the real estate and loan-related matters of its acquisition of a portfolio of 43 mortgage loans from Valley National Bank for over $920 million.
- Represented a publicly traded REIT in connection with a $495 million sale of a six property portfolio of shopping centers located in Ohio, Florida, Oregon and Arizona, consisting of approximately 2.5 million square feet of gross leasable area, to a joint venture between a state pension fund and Chicago area real estate investment firm.
- Represented a large private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of twenty-one retail/industrial properties in a more than $40 million NNN sale-leaseback portfolio transaction.
- Represented one of the largest multifamily developers in the country as the seller in its disposition of a Class A multi-family project in Florida totaling $93,500,000.00.
- Represented a large private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of eleven retail locations across two states in a more than $22 million NNN sale-leaseback portfolio transaction.
- Represented a publicly traded REIT in its acquisition of three commercial truck repair garages/warehouses in Ohio and Michigan in a $10,250,000.00 sale-leaseback transaction.