Bio

Edward Gusky has significant experience in real estate development, transactional and finance law. His practice focuses primarily on the representation of multistate developers and financial institutions in real estate acquisitions, development, financing, syndication, construction, deal negotiating, leasing and title issues. He represents developers in sophisticated financing arrangements such as traditional, mezzanine, insurance company, CMBS deals and 1031 exchanges. Ed’s national real estate practice includes representing developers in a variety of commercial enterprises, including multifamily housing projects, assisted living facilities, condominiums, strip malls, office buildings and self-storage facilities. For example, over the past few years, he has represented owners of self-storage facilities on transactions in more than 20 locations throughout the Midwest. Ed also has extensive mergers and acquisitions experience, including sophisticated stock and assets sales involving simultaneous multi-corporation closings. He served as lead counsel for an international chemical distribution company in several U.S. acquisitions, and he frequently represents buyers and sellers in multimillion dollar deals. Ed’s corporate work includes structuring privately-held domestic and offshore corporations, limited liability companies, limited and general partnerships, as well as business succession planning. He serves as Michigan counsel to one of the 10 largest steel companies in the world. Ed has an AV-Preeminent™ rating (the highest possible) by Martindale-Hubbell and has been ranked by DBusiness Magazine as a Top Lawyer in Real Estate Law and Banking and Financial Services Law from 2016 through 2020.