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Susan V. Kai

Partner

Susan advises entrepreneurial and institutional investors, owners, and developers on all aspects of sophisticated commercial real estate transactions. 

This includes acquisitions, dispositions, financings, leasing and development of multistate commercial real estate projects.

She has extensive experience across the country with a broad spectrum of real estate property types, including office, retail, multifamily, industrial, hotel, golf course, casino, senior housing, hospital, manufactured home and mixed-used properties. Susan also prepares and negotiates complex joint venture agreements, and she has substantial experience representing both landlord and tenant clients in retail, office, and industrial lease transactions.

  • Named to the “Ones to Watch” list by The Best Lawyers in America in the area of real estate law (2022-2024)
  • Recognized by The Legal 500 United States in the area of real estate (2020)
  • Named a Rising Star by the Georgetown Advanced Commercial Leasing Institute (2014)
  • Former Associates Board Member, Ladder Up (2013–2014)
  • Illinois
  • B.B.A., honors with highest distinction, Emory University
  • J.D., Northwestern Pritzker School of Law,

    Executive Editor, Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business

Susan Kai

Partner

Susan Kai

Partner

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