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Howard Zweig is a partner, member of the firm's Real Estate Practice Group and a member of the Education practice team.
Howard represents sellers, purchasers, developers, institutions, lenders, borrowers, landlords and tenants, with a particular focus on higher education institutions. His practice is national in scope, with both clients and their properties located across the United States.
He provides clients with counseling and representation in a wide variety of real estate and transactional matters. These include development, acquisition, sale and leasing of commercial, industrial and institutional projects, commercial mortgage loans, construction and zoning issues. His work with education clients encompasses nearly all areas of law that these institutions encounter.
Howard has been active in numerous development and land use projects in and around Chicago, and currently represents numerous nationally recognized universities in a variety of matters. One project involved representing a university in litigation related to a historic district that was imposed on a significant portion of its property. Another project was the development of a research park for another university, involving the negotiation of a master development agreement, declaration of covenants and ground leases. Yet another project involved a complex transaction involving air-rights lease, multiple users and multiple uses. Howard also regularly advices his education client on corporate governance and authority issues.
Howard's real estate activities have also involved numerous acquisitions, sales, leasing and commercial loan transactions. The loan transactions have included the structuring of the loan secured by the air-rights lease transaction described above. The lease transactions have included large industrial building leases for a client with a portfolio of commercial and industrial buildings on the east coast.
Howard's extensive civic and local governmental background further complement his capabilities to serve clients well. | 