Profile
Ashley M. Montalbano focuses her practice on general real estate matters. She represents commercial real estate investors, funds, operators, and developers in a wide range of commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, debt and equity financings, developments, and joint ventures across a full range of property classes.
Concentrations
- Industrial
- Multifamily
- Mixed-use
- Student housing
- Development
- Acquisitions
- Dispositions
- Private equity
- Joint ventures
- Real estate finance
Capabilities
Experience
- Represented seller of an industrial portfolio (in various locations nationally) for a price in excess of $600 million.
- Represented seller of a multifamily portfolio in Texas and Georgia for a price in excess of $500 million.
- Represented a borrower obtaining a construction loan in excess of $650 million for a mixed-use development in Austin, Texas.
- Represented a borrower refinancing a portfolio of assets (in various locations nationally) with a cumulative loan amount in excess of $350 million.
- Legal Extern, Hon. Lee Preston, Circuit Court of Cook County, Chancery Division, Summer 2012
- Legal Intern, The Estée Lauder Companies, Legal Department, Summer 2008
Recognition & Leadership
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, "Ones to Watch," Real Estate Law, 2021-2025
- Listed, Thomson-Reuters, "Stand-Out Lawyers," 2025
- Team Member, Chambers & Partners USA Real Estate Law Firm of the Year, 2017-2018 and 2022
- Team Member, a Law360 "Real Estate Practice Group of the Year," 2015 and 2022-2023
Credentials
Education
-
J.D., Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2014
- Order of Coif
- Salutatorian
- Member, Chicago-Kent Law Review
- B.A., magna cum laude, The George Washington University, 2009
Admissions
- Illinois