Richard is a partner in the Corporate department and chair of the Real Estate practice group. He counsels a variety of clients, including developers, landlords, tenants, corporate owners, manufacturers and investors, with respect to some of the most significant commercial projects in the Midwest. Clients routinely seek his assistance from the inception of a project through the final disposition of the asset. His depth of experience in navigating the administrative, legal and legislative processes enables him to provide clients with practical insights while achieving their objectives in a cost efficient manner.

Brian is a partner in the Corporate department and a member of the Real Estate practice group. He counsels clients in the areas of commercial real estate development and redevelopment, leasing, land use law, condemnation law, and environmental and renewable energy law. His clients include owners, investors, and developers who depend on his counsel in analyzing land use and development regulations, securing the requisite entitlements from state and local governments, and crafting development agreements to achieve real estate development objectives. He advises clients on projects including single and multifamily developments, cinemas, warehouse distribution centers, retail facilities, senior independent living and assisted living facilities, and projects involving a wide range of environmental transactional and regulatory permitting by agencies such as the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He also assists developers in addressing specific growth management and sustainability initiatives involving issues such as impact fees, adequate public facilities, growth phasing, transfer development rights, design review, form-based codes, preservation of community character, and urban growth boundaries. Brian structures public/private partnerships with state and local governments on behalf of landowner and developer clients and is experienced in utilizing development agreements and public financing mechanisms, such as special assessment districts (SADs) and tax increment financing (TIF) to achieve economic development objectives. Brian has extensive experience in state and federal trial and appellate courts in real estate and land use litigation, including the takings issue, First Amendment issues involving sign regulations, impact fees, vested rights, mechanics liens, appeals of denials of variances and special permits, EPA enforcement actions, and violations of Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act. He also handles condemnation matters for landowners and developers. He formerly served as special assistant attorney general for eminent domain actions brought by the Illinois departments of transportation and conservation. As a real estate practitioner and author of various publications on real estate development, Brian has been active in teaching students in graduate business, real estate, and planning programs. He is an adjunct professor at the Columbia Business School, Milstein Center for Real Estate, where he teaches the Real Estate Development course, and is an instructor in the Ventures Course at the MIT Real Estate Center for sessions on negotiating development agreements. He has also been an adjunct professor of land use law at the Fordham University Real Estate Institute at Lincoln Center and has served as a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, with an appointment at the Kennedy School of Government, teaching courses on land use and environmental law and public/private partnerships.

Annually appearing on the Best Lawyers list, as well as the Ohio Super Lawyers list, Tom has more than 40 years of experience representing assisted living facilities, durable medical equipment companies, home health agencies, hospice providers, hospitals, nursing homes, pharmacies, physicians and other licensed health care providers before state, federal and administrative courts across the country. He is a past member of the firm's Board of Directors and immediate past chair of the Government Relations and Health Care Industry practice groups. Leveraging extensive experience with a thorough understanding of the issues facing the health care industry, Tom takes a practical, yet aggressive, approach to help clients meet their needs while also mitigating risk. Within the constantly-evolving industry, he guides clients through myriad challenges, including certificate of need, health care fraud investigations, as well as issues related to Medicare and Medicaid audits, overpayments, certifications, exclusions and reimbursement. Additionally, he has assisted clients with the acquisition and disposition of health care facilities and practices, demonstrating a knowledge of not only the industry's distinctive operations but also of traditional business transactions. Understanding that complex health care reform initiatives have dramatically impacted the industry's operations, Tom, a former assistant attorney general in Ohio, utilizes his familiarity with the regulatory agencies and their procedures to provide clients with the insight they need to confidently move forward. A frequent speaker on health care issues throughout the country, he uses his experience to provide clients with knowledgeable and efficient counsel in a constantly-evolving industry.

Natalie represents a variety of developers, financial institutions, and private lenders in transactions involving the acquisition, development, renovation, and construction of income producing real estate. This includes apartments, affordable housing projects, senior housing properties, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, independent living facilities, office buildings, industrial properties, and shopping centers. She frequently represents buyers and sellers on the purchase and sale of real estate, including contract preparation and negotiation, due diligence review, and closing coordination. She also represents real estate developers on all aspects of development, including drafting of purchase and sale agreements and preparation of various development and service agreements. In addition to her experience representing owners and developers, Natalie has nearly two decades of experience completing all aspects of lending transactions, including preparation and negotiation of loan commitments, loan documents, intercreditor agreements, participation agreements, review of title, survey and due diligence requirements, and closing coordination. Recently, she has represented lenders in transactions ranging from $300,000 to over $125 million. Natalie is also skilled with drafting and negotiating all types of documents in connection with real estate and business transactions. These include easements, declarations of covenants, leases, construction contracts, and entity documentation. Her experience also includes complex loan transactions involving syndicated and participated loans, bond purchase transactions, Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, New Markets Tax Credit, and Historic Tax Credit.