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Ashley M. Montalbano focuses her practice on general real estate matters. She represents commercial real estate investors, funds, operators, and developers in a wide range of commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, debt and equity financings, developments, and joint ventures across a full range of property classes.

Concentrations

  • Industrial
  • Multifamily
  • Mixed-use
  • Student housing
  • Development
  • Acquisitions
  • Dispositions
  • Private equity
  • Joint ventures
  • Real estate finance

Capabilities

Experience

  • Represented seller of an industrial portfolio (in various locations nationally) for a price in excess of $600 million.
  • Represented seller of a multifamily portfolio in Texas and Georgia for a price in excess of $500 million.
  • Represented a borrower obtaining a construction loan in excess of $650 million for a mixed-use development in Austin, Texas.
  • Represented a borrower refinancing a portfolio of assets (in various locations nationally) with a cumulative loan amount in excess of $350 million.
  • Legal Extern, Hon. Lee Preston, Circuit Court of Cook County, Chancery Division, Summer 2012
  • Legal Intern, The Estée Lauder Companies, Legal Department, Summer 2008

Recognition & Leadership

  • Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, "Ones to Watch," Real Estate Law, 2021-2025
  • Team Member, Chambers & Partners USA Real Estate Law Firm of the Year, 2017-2018 and 2022
  • Team Member, a Law360 "Real Estate Practice Group of the Year," 2015 and 2022-2023

Credentials

Education
  • J.D., Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2014
    • Order of Coif
    • Salutatorian
    • Member, Chicago-Kent Law Review
  • B.A., magna cum laude, The George Washington University, 2009
Admissions
  • Illinois