Alexandra (Alex) Cole
- Chicago
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Alex assists clients with real estate transactions and development, hospitality, international real estate, project finance, and construction law.
Alex Cole handles large real estate acquisitions relating to hotels, offices, and retail spaces, representing various parties in the construction and development process. Her past projects include Park Hyatt Australia; the Fairmont Hotel and Canadian Pacific Hotel merger; Chicago Mercantile Exchange; The Harold Washington Library; McCormick Place Expansion and Hotel; Underwater World at Pier 39; purchase and sales of crypto mining facilities; and the construction and renovation of numerous industrial complexes, hotels, shopping centers, and other commercial projects in the United States and Europe.
Education & Credentials
Education
- The University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 1979
- DePauw University, B.A., cum laude, 1976
Bar and Court Admissions
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Illinois
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Wisconsin
Related Employment
- Altheimer & Gray, Partner, 1988-2003, Real Estate Practice Chair
- Antonow & Fink, Partner, 1985-1988, Associate, 1979-1985
Professional Recognition
Ranked by Chambers USA, as “America's Leading Lawyers,” in Leisure & Hospitality, 2013-2022; Construction, 2005-2023; Real Estate, 2013-2014, 2019-2023
Listed in Best Lawyers in America: Construction Law; Real Estate Law, 2006-2025
Listed in Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers, 2024
Selected by Super Lawyers Magazine as a "Super Lawyer", 2005-2023
Named Best Lawyers’ Chicago "Construction Law Lawyer of the Year," 2018, 2021
Listed in the Law Bulletin Publishing Company's Leading Lawyers Network as Illinois Leading Lawyer
Received "Women in Real Estate 2010 Career Achievement Award," presented by the Illinois Real Estate Journal
*Peer Review Rated AV in Martindale-Hubbell
(AV®, BV® and CV® are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies.)
*The Supreme Court of Illinois does not recognize certifications of specialties in the practice of law and no certificate, award or recognition is a requirement to practice law in Illinois.
Impact
Professional Leadership
- Association for Real Property and Infrastructure f/k/a Anglo-American Real Property Institute (ARPI), Member, 2011; Chair, 2024
- American College of Real Estate Lawyers, Fellow, Vice Chair of Hospitality Subcommittee, 2011-present
- Real Estate & Land Use Practice, Perkins Coie LLP, Chair, 2005-2011
- Hospitality Industry Bar Association, Founding Board Member, President
- Chicago Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Society of Illinois Construction Attorneys, Steering Committee Member, 2007-present, President, 2013
- CREW Network, Board of Directors, 2001-2002
- CREW Chicago, Board of Directors, 1999-2000