Thomas L. Hefty is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Chicago office.
Tom’s practice is devoted to all aspects of real estate law, including: acquisitions and dispositions; zoning and entitlements; private financing; governmental financing and grant assistance; construction and construction disputes; sale and leaseback transactions; and ground leasing and commercial space leasing.
Tom’s practice includes natural resource and energy development matters, including: wind energy agreements; oil and gas leasing; and mineral rights conveyancing and financing. Tom has represented lenders, tax equity investors, developers and operators of wind, geothermal, distributed solar photovoltaic and solid oxide fuel cell power generation projects, as well as conventional power generation projects.
Working with the Firm’s Health Industry Advisory Group, Tom has represented health care systems for whom he has handled all aspects of real estate matters, including: acquisition; zoning; ground leasing; medical office development; real estate tax exemption; construction and permanent conventional financing and tax exempt financing; condominiumization; co-ownership; and physician group—health system real estate joint ventures.
Tom served as a law clerk for the Illinois Appellate Court. He is admitted to practice in Illinois, the federal district court for the Northern District of Illinois and the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Recent Transactions
- Represented Tax Equity Purchaser of multiple wind energy developments (90 M – 150 MW).
- Represented Tax Equity Purchaser of a 25 MW fuel cell portfolio and a 30 MW fuel cell portfolio.
- Represented a major academic medical center in the development of a $850 million replacement hospital.
- Represented a health care institution in its development of a new health care campus, including ground leases with a medical office building developer and a physician group joint venture for an ambulatory surgical center.
- Represented ownership in the development of a 15 MW natural gas-fired cogeneration power plant.
- Represented health care systems in enterprise-wide construction delivery agreements.
- Represented a private equity firm in its acquisition of a $250 million food additive manufacturing facility, which included establishing a reciprocal operating and easement regime with two separately owned and operated chemical manufacturing facilities.