Neva Wagner (they/them/theirs)
- Chicago
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Neva assists clients in a variety of commercial real estate transactions that range from single assets to multistate portfolios and corporate mergers and acquisitions.
Neva Wagner regularly represents clients with commercial real estate acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, financings, sale leasebacks, developments, and joint ventures. Their clients include owners, developers, and managers of multifamily and senior housing facilities, shopping centers and other retail properties, hotels, mixed-use developments, performance venues, data centers, and office buildings. They also represent commercial tenants, high net worth individuals, and family offices.
Neva drafts and negotiates purchase and sale agreements, leases (including ground leases), financing documents, management agreements, franchise agreements, development agreements, joint venture agreements, condominium declarations, reciprocal easement agreements (REAs), and multiparty covenants, conditions, and restrictions (CC&Rs). They are experienced with managing closings, supervising and conducting due diligence investigations, and navigating use and development restrictions and other issues caused by REAs, CC&Rs, and other encumbrances.
As part of their pro bono commitment, Neva represents theatres through Lawyers for the Creative Arts, asylum seekers with the National Immigrant Justice Center at Heartland Alliance, and incarcerated transgender people through the Transgender Law Center’s programs that equip transgender inmates to advocate for themselves and encourage correctional facilities to adopt more equitable policies. Neva is also an executive committee member for the University of Iowa College of Law’s Alumni DEI Council and a member of the LGBT Bar, LAGBAC (Chicago’s LGBTQ+ Bar Association), and ICSC.
Areas of focus
Education & Credentials
Education
- The University of Iowa College of Law, J.D., Articles Editor, Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, 2017
- Westminster College, B.S., Justice Studies, cum laude, 2012
Bar and Court Admissions
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Illinois
Related Employment
- Perkins Coie LLP, Chicago, IL, Summer Associate, 2016
- Iowa State Public Defender, Summer Intern, 2015
Impact
Professional Leadership
- The University of Iowa College of Law Alumni DEI Council, Executive Committee
- LAGBAC – Chicago’s LGBTQ+ Bar Association, Member
- LGBT Bar Association, Member
