Profil
Shawn Ronda focuses his practice on commercial real estate transactions and digital infrastructure transactions. Shawn guides clients through virtually all aspects of real estate acquisitions and dispositions as well as finance, leasing, and real estate development, with an emphasis on real estate development for data center, student housing, mixed-use, and retail projects both in the Chicago area and throughout the United States. Shawn regularly represents developers, operators, institutional clients, private equity companies, investors, and joint venture partners.
Shawn regularly advises clients on portfolio transactions across a wide variety of asset classes. He also advises clients with respect to the real estate related aspects of mergers and acquisitions, regularly handling the negotiation of asset purchase agreements and merger documents, as well as the implementation of related due diligence strategies and activities.
Shawn is committed to serving the local community, having served on the Program Committee of ULI Chicago, and the Associate Board of the Chicago Committee for Minorities in Large Law Firms. Shawn currently serves on the Board of Directors of Family Rescue Inc., and the Development Committee of the Chicago Bar Foundation.
Concentrations
- Acquisitions and dispositions
- Digital Infrastructure
- Real estate development
- Real estate finance
Kompetencje
Doświadczenie
- Represented global data center operator in the negotiation and execution of a long-term ground lease and related construction documents for the development of a large data center campus in Texas.
- Represented global data center operator in the negotiation and execution of data center leases and related service level agreements with various hyperscalers and cloud service providers for sites across the United States.
- Represented London-based student housing company in the acquisition of a newly constructed, 796-bed student housing tower in Austin, TX near the University of Texas.
- Represented a real estate investment and management company in the acquisition and financing of a portfolio of shopping centers throughout the Chicago metropolitan area.
- Represented a developer in the acquisition, development, and financing of multiple parcels of property in Knoxville, Tennessee, for the development of mixed-use properties near the University of Tennessee consisting of retail and residential components, and the negotiation of long-term retail leases for the development with major corporate tenants.
- Represented Chicago-based private equity company in the acquisition of a mixed-use property, including a data center component, in Portland, Oregon, being the largest single asset sale of property in the state for more than 5 years at the time of sale.°
- Represented a New York-based private equity company in the vertical separation and sale of retail and office components of landmarked property in downtown Chicago for an aggregate sale price of approximately U.S. $350 million.°
- Represented a Chicago-based private equity company in the sale of student housing portfolios valued at U.S. $465 million and U.S. $1 billion, respectively.°
- Represented a religious institution in the approximately U.S. $110 million sale of real property for the development of a multi-tower, mixed-use project in the River North neighborhood of Chicago.°
- Represented a multinational telecommunications company in sale and redevelopment of portions of corporate campus in Schaumburg, Illinois.°
- Represented an American food company in sale and leaseback of portion of industrial site for redevelopment as a mixed-use project along the Chicago riverfront.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Ronda prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
Sukcesy i wyróżnienia
- Listed, The Legal 500 United States, Real Estate, 2022
- "Recommended Lawyer," 2022
- "Other Key Lawyer," 2022
- Board Member, Family Rescue, Inc.
- Development Committee Member, Chicago Bar Foundation
Kwalifikacje
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J.D., Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
- Executive Editor, Washington University Law Review
- B.A., Cornell University
- Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois