Michael J. Ostermeyer

• Counsel to a Fortune 500 manufacturer to structure, document, and close the portfolio sale of more than four million square feet of manufacturing, office, and service center space, comprising 24 discrete sites in 17 U.S. states and Canada.
• Principal outside counsel to a Fortune 500 food and beverage producer in a series of transactions designed to reorient the producer's balance sheet and to better position its manufacturing, packaging, and distribution capabilities. Projects involved the disposition to a strategic partner of major packaging production facilities in New York, North Carolina, Texas, and Illinois, as well as the acquisition (and later sale) of a new production facility in Washington.
• Principal outside counsel to an array of large, publicly traded companies (including companies in the transportation and logistics, food and beverage, automotive, and heavy manufacturing sectors) in matters involving leases, purchases, sales, and other real estate-related issues arising from the manufacturing and distribution of facilities throughout the United States and Europe.

Public-Private and Public Infrastructure Projects:

• Principal outside counsel to a private REIT currently deploying more than $1 billion to develop public infrastructure projects across the United States.
• Principal outside counsel to a private REIT currently emerging to develop health care projects (including primary care, diagnostic, residential, and other facilities) to serve workforce constituencies.
• Counsel to a developer of public-private projects in connection with financing, construction, and management of K-12 and post-secondary education facilities, student housing, convention facilities, and other privately-financed public infrastructure.
• Principal outside counsel to a major municipality and its affiliated school district as lead development counsel in efforts to plan, finance, and execute approximately $200 million in public infrastructure development. The project, which also required passage of specific enabling legislation to authorize tax-exempt financing, delivered roughly one million square feet of new space in nearly two dozen development projects, together with supporting program enhancements and policy modifications.