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Max B. Guggenheim

Associate
Chicago
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312.506.3438
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Max serves as lead counsel to landlords and tenants nationwide for negotiation of office, retail, medical and industrial leases.

Max’s practice focuses on advising major office and shopping center owners and operators in lease negotiations with national tenants, as well as counsel to international companies in office leasing throughout the U.S. and Canada, with prior representation including the world’s largest consulting firm and a prominent infrastructure and design corporation.

Max also has significant experience as the lead attorney for sophisticated sellers and purchasers throughout the country for transactions including multi-family development, retail, agriculture and mixed-use properties, and regularly handles all aspects of the transaction from contract drafting and negotiation, property due diligence, title and survey review, and financing.  Max has served as counsel to a nationally recognized institutional lender in multi-million dollar loans secured by commercial properties, and has represented one of the largest retailers in the world in acquisitions and planned development work in the City of Chicago.

Max began his legal career at a Tier 1 construction law firm in Chicago before serving as in-house counsel and operations manager for one of the largest commercial property owners in the State of Illinois.  Prior to joining Benesch, Max worked as an associate at two distinguished law firms in Chicago.

Representative Experience

  • Represented the buyer in its acquisitions of multiple behavioral health practices throughout the country.
  • Represented the Landlord in connection with a ground sublease to a national quick-service restaurant chain in Grandville, Michigan.
  • Represented the seller in a sale-leaseback transaction for a warehouse, office and manufacturing property in Stanford, Kentucky used for acrylic paints, oil paints, stretcher bars, easels, craft paper products and accessories.
  • Represented the buyer in its acquisition of a provider of mental-health services in the State of Washington.
  • Represented the buyer in its acquisition of a distributor of lifting products and accessories.
  • Represented a private equity sponsor and its portfolio company in multiple add-on acquisitions, including the acquisition of a wholesaler and distributor of industrial weights and related measuring equipment.
  • Real Estate & Environmental
  • Leasing
  • Corporate & Securities
  • Benesch Healthcare+
  • Dental/DSOs
  • Cannabis
  • DePaul University College of Law, J.D.
    • Research assistant on joint venture bylaws, antitrust and competition law
    • Studied law internationally at Vienna University of Economics and Business, Masaryk University in Prague, and Sant’Anna Institute in Sorrento, Italy
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, College of Business, B.S. in Business Administration and Marketing
    • with Honors
    • Dean’s List, James Scholar Honors Program, Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society
  • Illinois
  • Listed, The Best Lawyers in America®: Ones to Watch, Real Estate Law: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

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