Neva Wagner

Neva Wagner advises clients on acquisitions, dispositions, financings, leasing transactions, sale-leasebacks, developments, and portfolio transactions involving assets nationwide. Their practice spans a variety of asset classes, including retail and mixed-use developments, multifamily communities, senior housing facilities, hotels, entertainment venues, renewable energy projects, data centers, and office properties. They regularly counsel clients through multiple stages of an asset's life cycle, from acquisition and development to financing, operation, leasing, and disposition.

Neva works closely with clients to identify solutions that advance transactions and support broader business objectives. They combine efficient deal management with creative problem-solving to address challenges throughout each transaction.

Neva regularly drafts and negotiates purchase and sale agreements, leases and ground leases, financing documents, development agreements, management agreements, franchise agreements, condominium documentation, reciprocal easement agreements, and covenants, conditions, and restrictions. They also have significant experience addressing title, easement, operational, and development-related issues that frequently occur in retail, mixed-use, hospitality, and other complex commercial real estate projects.

Neva helps clients navigate the full spectrum of issues affecting a property over time. Whether assisting with an acquisition, negotiating operational agreements, structuring financing arrangements, resolving property restrictions, or coordinating a disposition, Neva brings a practical understanding of how legal decisions affect the long-term operation and value of an asset.

As part of their pro bono commitment, Neva represents theaters through Lawyers for the Creative Arts, asylum seekers through the National Immigrant Justice Center, and incarcerated transgender individuals through Transgender Law Center programs. Neva also co-chairs the Chicago office's diversity, inclusion, and opportunity committee and participates in several professional organizations, including ICSC, the LGBT Bar, and LAGBAC.