E-Mail: alapin@rsplaw.com

Phone: 1-312-456-0372   

Practice Areas: Real Estate, Secured Lending, Franchising, Mergers &  Acquisitions, Corporate Transactions

AT WORK

Andrew W. Lapin, an accomplished business lawyer with over 25 years of experience in real estate, secured lending, franchising, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate transactions, represents a broad array of clients, including businesses in the small and middle markets, lenders providing financing to small and middle-market businesses, and e-commerce companies.

 Andy represents entrepreneurial business owners, typically as general counsel, in connection with business acquisitions and sales; business structuring and restructuring; real property acquisitions, sales and leasing; real property development (new construction, condominium development and conversion, and acquisition of investment real estate, including low-income properties); financing and capitalization; franchising; and general business needs.

Andy’s clients include financing companies and banks (both conventional and government-guaranteed lenders). In this area of his practice, Andy assists clients with document preparation, due diligence, closing and post-closing matters, and workout and liquidation of delinquent loans, as well as lender portfolio due diligence and evaluation.

IN THE PROFESSION

Andy, a lecturer for the National Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders (NAGGL), teaches a course titled “Closing and Funding the SBA Loan.”  He has also written a textbook by the same name.

Andy is an active member of the Chicago Bar Association (Real Property Committee, Real Property Finance Subcommittee and Commercial Finance Committee), the Illinois State Bar Association, the Chicago Mortgage Attorneys Association and the National Association for Government Guaranteed Lenders.

Andy’s professional accomplishments have been recognized in Who’s Who in American Law and Who’s Who in America . In the May 2005 and February issues of Chicago magazine, he was designated an Illinois Super Lawyer, an honor given to the top 5% of attorneys in the state. Andy has also been recognized by the Leading Lawyers Network as a top Illinois lawyer in the areas of commercial real estate and closely and privately held business law.

IN THE COMMUNITY

Andy currently serves on the Executive Board of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and has previously served on the board of the American Society for Technion.

BACKGROUND

The John Marshall Law School
J.D., 1978
Indiana University
B.S., 1975

Before joining the firm in 2007, Andy was a name principal and managing member of the Chicago firm of Lapin & Associates, LLC, which he founded in 1981.

Andy is admitted to practice in Illinois .

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