McAdam, Chris

Chris McAdam

Associate

He/Him/His

chris.mcadam@lw.com
    McAdam, Chris

    Chris McAdam

    Associate

    chris.mcadam@lw.com

    Profile

    Chris McAdam represents clients in complex, multi-property real estate transactions.

    Chris combines a solutions-oriented approach and sound judgment to advise REITs, private equity funds, and other real estate investors on matters relating to acquiring, disposing of, and financing commercial real estate, including:

    • Retail
    • Office
    • Hotel
    • Data centers
    • Multi-family residential
    • Mixed-use properties

    A go-to resource for clients in the hospitality industry with a depth of experience in management and operation issues, Chris regularly guides clients on negotiating hotel management and franchise agreements.

    Before joining Latham, Chris was in-house counsel for international hotel companies and practiced at another international law firm.

    Chris represents clients in:

    • Single asset and portfolio acquisitions and dispositions
    • Joint ventures and other preferred equity structured vehicles
    • Financings, including mortgage financings, mezzanine financings, seller financing
    • Management agreements, franchise agreements, and development agreements

    Chris also maintains an active pro bono practice, including advising on community resource center and health clinic acquisitions and financings in the Chicago area. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Legal Council for Health Justice in Chicago, which provides pro bono legal services to Chicago’s at-risk communities.

    Experience

    Chris’ experience at and prior to joining Latham includes advising:

    • Steiner NYC on the US$420 million recapitalization to purchase a majority stake in Hub, a high-rise development in Brooklyn, from JP Morgan Asset Management
    • Hyatt Hotels on a US$2.6 billion transaction to acquire Playa Hotels & Resorts, with all-inclusive resorts in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica
    • A data center and AI infrastructure company on purchasing land for and develop three hybrid turnkey data center campuses in Texas
    • Major hotel brands in the US; Aruba; and Zurich, Switzerland; on disposing of luxury hotels and negotiation long-term management agreements
    • A leading data center developer and operator on disposing of multiple data center development sites and a joint venture
    • An international industrial developer and operator on a US$1 billion club-style joint venture for industrial developer/sponsor equity raise
    • A private equity fund on acquiring a luxury resort and negotiating the seller’s continued development obligations, loan assumption, hotel management agreement, and restaurant management agreement with boutique operators
    • An asset management firm on a joint venture and acquisition of city center hotel, as well as negotiating the hotel management agreement and acquisition financing
    • An international luxury hotel brand on a hotel management agreement for assumption of management of an ultra-luxury resort in Miami, Florida
    • An international luxury hotel brand on a hotel management agreement and residential branding and association management agreement for a luxury property in Phoenix, Arizona

    Qualifications

    Bar Qualification

    • Illinois

    Education

    • JD, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, 2013
      cum laude
    • MA, Boston University, 2007
      cum laude, Deans Scholarship

    Languages Spoken

    • English

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