This handbook provides best-practice guidance for attorneys representing condominium developers, associations, and lenders. Experienced practitioners offer tried-and-true solutions for the challenging problems facing their clients and creative solutions for the unique circumstances that arise in condominium law matters. Chapters cover pertinent legislation, including the Illinois Condominium Property Act and the Illinois’ Common Interest Community Association Act, and address other topics such as construction finance, conversion and deconversion, local condominium ordinances, property reports and disclosure summaries, commercial condominiums, and more.
Chapter 1 — The Illinois Condominium Property Act and Condominium Titles
Elizabeth A. Thompson, and G. Thomas Goodwyn, Saul Ewing LLP, Chicago, and Adam T. Kahn andLaura Lau Marinelli, Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC, Chicago
Chapter 2 — Practitioners’ Guide to Illinois’ Common Interest Community Association Act
Charles M. Keough and Jonathan D. Wassell, Keough & Moody, PC, Chicago
Chapter 3 — Local Condominium Ordinances
Shannon Schwarzwalder, Keough & Moody PC, Chicago and Naperville
Chapter 4 — Condominium Documents
Nicholas P. Bartzen, Kristofer D. Kasten, and Scott A. Rosenlund, Bartzen Rosenlund Kasten LLC, Chicago
Chapter 5 — Condominiums and Common Interest Communities in Illinois — Developer/Investor Perspective
Victoria C. Bresnahan and Brian Meltzer, Meltzer Purtill & Stelle LLC, Chicago and Schaumburg
Chapter 6 — Condominium Construction Finance
Robert J. Taylor, Gould & Ratner LLP, Chicago
Chapter 7 — The Condominium Property Report and the Condominium Disclosure Summary
Adam T. Berkoff and Brian A. Cohen, DLA Piper (U.S), LLP, Chicago
Chapter 8 — Conversion of Existing Structures
Kenneth A. Michaels Jr., Bauch & Michaels, LLC, Chicago
Chapter 9— Commercial Condominiums
Joshua A. Weinstein, Kovitz Shifrin Nesbit, P.C., Chicago
Chapter 10 — Illinois Condominium Deconversion
Omar K. Malik, Kovitz Shifrin Nesbit, P.C., Chicago
