Thomas L. Hefty is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Firm’s Chicago office. He is a member of the Corporate Department.
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.
Working with the Firm’s Health Law Department, 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’s practice includes energy development real estate matters, including mineral leasing and financing and volumetric production payment transactions. Working with the Firm’s Energy and Derivatives Markets Practice Group, Tom has represented lenders, investors and counterparties in wind and geothermal energy development projects, as well as conventional power projects.
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 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 and construction 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.
Education
- University of Illinois College of Law, J.D. (cum laude), 1980
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.A., 1977
