Experts Directory

Michelle Kelban

Michelle Kelban, Global Co-Chair of the firm’s Real Estate Practice, advises clients on a range of complex and prominent real estate transactions, including private capital raising and financing, acquisitions, joint venture recapitalizations, and workouts and restructurings. Nationally recognized as a leading real estate lawyer, Michelle serves a variety of key market players, including private equity firms, US and foreign investors, institutional lenders, and family offices. She leverages her broad-based experience to help clients successfully navigate [...]

Brad Hawley

Brad Hawley represents financial institutions and real estate development clients in structuring, documenting, and negotiating the acquisition, disposition, development, leasing, and financing of improved and unimproved commercial real property. Consistently recognized in Chambers USA and The Best Lawyers in America, Brad has been primary outside counsel for numerous publicly traded real estate companies and financial institutions across the United States and internationally for more than thirty-five years. He has vast experience in loan workouts and [...]

Steven L. Kennedy

Steve helps his real estate clients navigate challenges from a changing economic and financial regulatory environment and its impact on lenders and borrowers alike. He is a developer's counsel, who often acts as "quarterback" of a multidisciplinary Seyfarth team. While Steve is co-head of the Real Estate Development practice group, he taps into various other practice groups, drawing on the strengths of his team's construction, corporate (joint venture), finance, leasing, and environmental experience to advise [...]