Kathleen M . Gilligan
Partner, Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP
Kathleen Gilligan is a partner in the Business Transactions
Department of Wildman Harrold. She has depth and breadth of experience in all
areas of acquisition, development, leasing, and disposition of commercial real
estate, with an emphasis on representing industrial, corporate, and
institutional clients.
Katie has successfully completed numerous complex
real estate transactions throughout the country, including recent acquisitions
of multi-site industrial property portfolios for a group of off-shore investors
totaling over $600 million in a fifteen-month period, and dispositions of
industrial properties for a multibillion-dollar UK–based industrial conglomerate.
Katie also has extensive experience, at both the national and local levels, in
the representation of REITs, shopping center and office building owners,
developers, industrial, institutional and office tenants, and real estate
investment companies.
Katie has also worked extensively in the areas of
commercial real estate lending, and insolvency and debt reorganization. She
routinely advises and represents clients in every aspect of real estate
matters, from structuring and negotiating complex commercial transactions to
drafting and preparing leases and attendant leasing documents, purchase and
sale agreements, and financing instruments. Based upon solid reviews and recommendations
by clients, senior practitioners, and in-house counsel in the real estate profession,
Katie has been selected as a leading adviser and included in the prestigious Legal
Media Group's Guide to the World's Leading Real Estate Lawyers.
Practice Areas:
Real Estate
Commercial Leasing
Representative Experience:
• Represented a leading Australian real estate
group and its joint venture partner in the acquisition, within a fifteen-month
period, of 76 industrial properties in the greater metropolitan
• Served as local counsel to a New York–based real
estate investment company in its $100+ million acquisition of a trophy office
building on
• Represents publicly traded, multi-billion dollar
UK–based Invensys plc in all aspects of commercial real estate law, including
build-to-suit transactions, dispositions, leasing, subleasing, easements and
licenses
• Represents a well-known
Member, National Association of Real Estate
Investment Trusts
Member,
Listed in Guide to the World’s Leading Real
Estate Lawyers published by Legal Media Group, 6th Edition
(2005)
Education:
Boston College School of Law, J.D., 1986, cum
laude
Uniform Commercial Code Reporter Digest, Staff
Writer (1984–1985), Associate Editor (1985–1986)
University of Notre Dame, B.A., American Studies,
1983, cum laude
Kent Greenfield
Professor of Law, Boston College Law School
Kent
Greenfield is Professor of Law and Law Fund Research Scholar at Boston
College Law School, where he teaches and writes in the areas of
business law and constitutional law. His publications include journal
articles in the Yale Law Journal, the Virginia Law Review, the Boston
College Law Review, the George Washington Law Review, and the Tulane
Law Review, among others. His articles are widely cited, and he has
been called “the leading figure” and “the most creative thinker” in the
“stakeholder” school of corporate law scholarship. Greenfield has
presented papers or lectured in 24 states, in six countries, and at 55
institutions. He is the author of the book “The Failure of Corporate
Law,” forthcoming in January 2007 from the University of Chicago Press.
Greenfield was named B.C. Law Teacher of the Year for 2003-04,
a recognition bestowed by the Law Students Association on vote of the
entire student body. He was also awarded the Emil Slizewski Award for
outstanding teaching, given by the graduating class of 2004. Greenfield
has been a Law Fund Research Scholar, a recognition of his scholarly
contributions, since 2003. He also teaches at Brown University, and has
taught at the University of Connecticut School of Law and the
University of Hawaii School of Law.
He is the founder and
president of the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), an
association of three dozen law schools and other academic institutions
organized to fight for academic freedom and against discrimination.
FAIR brought suit against Donald Rumsfeld and others to contest the
Solomon Amendment, which forces universities to assist military
recruiters. The Supreme Court decided the case against FAIR on March 6,
2006. Greenfield’s work with FAIR was featured in numerous newspapers
and media outlets, including the New York Times, the Wall Street
Journal, the Boston Globe, the Chronicle of Higher Education, ABC News,
CBS News, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, and NPR.
Greenfield also
consults with litigators on issues of corporate accountability. He was
instrumental in developing the theory of the case brought against
Unocal Corporation for alleged human rights violations committed by the
company in Burma.
Before joining the faculty in 1995, Greenfield
served as a law clerk to Justice David H. Souter, of the United States
Supreme Court, and to Judge Levin H. Campbell, of the United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He also worked at the law firm
of Covington & Burling, in Washington, D.C.
Greenfield is
a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, where he graduated
with honors and was awarded membership into the honorary society Order
of the Coif. He also served as Topics and Comments Editor of the
University of Chicago Law Review. He received an A.B., with highest
honors, from Brown University, where he studied economics and history.
Before law school, he traveled extensively in South America and Africa.
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