Overview

Dominic represents banks, finance companies, and other large institutional lenders obtaining traditional mortgage loans for single-asset or portfolio deals, mezzanine loans, and other financing and investment mechanisms. He represents borrowers obtaining agency financing, acquisitions, and dispositions of multi-family, commercial, and industrial properties, and office leasing. Dominic also represents finance companies in secondary market repurchase facility work transactions.

Dominic’s leasing experience includes drafting, negotiating, and reviewing office, retail, and industrial leases, amendments, and lease termination agreements, predominantly for eight downtown Chicago high-rise office buildings and two suburban Chicago high-rise office buildings. He assists clients with the purchase and/or sale of commercial real estate, including drafting and negotiating purchase and sale agreements, title, survey, and zoning examination, and drafting and reviewing reciprocal easement and operating agreements.

Before going into private practice, Dominic served as in-house counsel for Black Lion Investment Group, Inc.

Dominic represents banks, finance companies, and other large institutional lenders obtaining traditional mortgage loans for single-asset or portfolio deals, mezzanine loans, and other financing and investment mechanisms. He represents borrowers obtaining agency financing, acquisitions, and dispositions of multi-family, commercial, and industrial properties, and office leasing. Dominic also represents finance companies in secondary market repurchase facility work transactions.

Dominic’s leasing experience includes drafting, negotiating, and reviewing office, retail, and industrial leases, amendments, and lease termination agreements, predominantly for eight downtown Chicago high-rise office buildings and two suburban Chicago high-rise office buildings. He assists clients with the purchase and/or sale of commercial real estate, including drafting and negotiating purchase and sale agreements, title, survey, and zoning examination, and drafting and reviewing reciprocal easement and operating agreements.

Before going into private practice, Dominic served as in-house counsel for Black Lion Investment Group, Inc.

  • Vice chair, Chicago Bar Association Commercial Finance and Transactions, (2023–Present)
  • Attorney, Black Lion Investment Group, Inc.

Education

  • University of Southern California Gould School of Law, LL.M., magna cum laude, 2022, international business and economics law
  • California Western School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 2020, lead articles editor and associate writer, California Western Law Review and International Law Journal
  • University of Miami, B.A., 2015, criminology

Bar Admissions

  • Illinois
  • Speaker, “Financing and Loan Agreements and Handling Title Issues,” 2025 Illinois Real Estate Law Webinar hosted by NBI, Inc., March 4, 2025.