After more than 20 years in the real estate world, Aimee has experiences with transactions from a wide variety of perspectives.
Over the course of her career, Aimee has provided commercial real estate legal support to the second-largest shopping mall operator and the second-largest retail pharmacy chain in the United States, the country’s largest insurance company, and a private equity real estate investment firm. She is also familiar with laws concerning residential properties, having previously worked as a real estate agent herself in the Chicagoland area.
Aimee has experience drafting and negotiating a wide array of exhibits, amendments and ancillary documents to leases, purchase agreements, development agreements and various other real estate contracts. She has worked with sellers, buyers, attorneys, lenders, third-party participants (such as surveyors, environmental engineers and municipal officials) and title agents in order to close acquisitions and dispositions, and she has conducted all aspects of real estate closings. It’s a practice area Aimee has always loved: she enjoys seeing a transaction all the way through from pre-offer to post-closing, and she finds nothing more satisfying than the sense of accomplishment after a deal is completed.
At Husch Blackwell, Aimee assists with transactional work and financing for the purchase, sale, development or leasing of retail, industrial, office and multifamily real estate. She also supports leasing negotiations and works with tax-advantaged real estate development work, including projects that involve New Market Tax Credits, tax increment financing, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, Property Assessed Clean Energy financing, historic tax credits and Opportunity Zones.
Aimee is known for her proactive and excellent problem solving, as well as for her inside understanding of client needs. Her many years in-house showed her how many internal stakeholders can be involved in a project and how many needs and goals must be finely balanced in the eventual outcome. Aimee is particularly skilled at coordinating the variety of players in a transaction to keep each stage moving forward.