Lenny Asaro

Mr. Asaro partners with real estate stakeholders to resolve disputes, protect their assets and move projects forward. In more than 25 years as a real estate adviser and litigator, he has established himself as a trusted source of business-minded counsel for developers and other entities. He works to defend and advance client interests in matters related to land use and zoning, condemnation/eminent domain, tax increment financing (TIF), acquisitions and dispositions, public-private partnerships, government affairs and redevelopment agreements, annexation, title disputes and real estate valuation disputes. Mr. Asaro has handled numerous significant real estate development projects in and around Chicago for governmental, private and public-private partnership entities. He has extensive experience with administrative, legislative and judicial proceedings and processes. And when litigation proves advantageous or unavoidable, he is a skilled courtroom advocate. He has first-chaired hundreds of bench trials and numerous jury trials since 1995, written Illinois appellate and Supreme Court briefs, and argued before the Illinois appellate court on multiple occasions.