Pircher, Nichols & Meeks Promotes Three New Partners

LOS ANGELES - Feb. 3, 2015 - PRLog -- LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO — Feb. 2, 2015 —Pircher, Nichols & Meeks, a national real estate law firm with offices in Chicago and Los Angeles, has promoted Andrew M. Ouvrier, Aaron M. Potter and John M. Valentine to partners. Ouvrier will practice within the firm’s Los Angeles office, while Potter and Valentine will practice within the firm’s Chicago office.

Ouvrier joined the firm in 2013 as a senior associate. His practice focuses on the leasing of office, retail and industrial properties, including “green” leasing and cell site leasing, for a wide variety of landlord and tenant clients, including institutional investors and entrepreneurial individuals and entities. He also regularly represents institutional landlords in the ongoing management of office projects and retail shopping centers.He has published numerous scholarly articles, including “Rooftop Cell Sites: Maximize the Profits by Minimizing the Headaches” as well as “A Growing Demand: The Need to Get Up to Speed on Green Leases”. Ouvrier is an active member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC). He earned his J.D., graduating cum laude, from Loyola Law School, and earned his bachelor’s degree, graduating cum laude, from UCLA.

Potter joined the firm in 2005 as an associate. His practice focuses on representing clients in connection with construction and development projects. He advises clients regarding an array of construction-related matters, including insurance coverage issues, and negotiates agreements with designers, consultants, contractors and developers through a wide variety of project types and sizes. Notable transactions include a ground-up construction project for a hotel at Times Square in New York City and the major renovation of an iconic Chicago landmark building. Potter is a member of the American Bar Association Forum on Construction Law and an active participant on an editorial board for revising industry form agreements for the American Institute of Architects (AIA). He served as a judicial clerk for the honorable Alice M. Batchelder, circuit judge on the 6^th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and for the honorable John M. Rogers, circuit judge on the 6^th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He earned his J.D., graduating magna cum laude, from University of Notre Dame Law School, where he was an editor for the Notre Dame Law Review.

Valentine joined the firm in 2003 as an associate.He has been involved in all aspects of complex real estate transactions throughout the United States, with an emphasis on representing institutional capital sources in connection with acquisitions and dispositions of real property, financings, asset management, office leasing, development and joint ventures. His practice includes a wide range of real estate types, with a particular focus on multi-family residential, industrial, golf course and office properties. Notable transactions include representing private equity funds in connection with the disposition of a 13-property portfolio of multifamily assets in six states containing approximately 4,800 units valued at $554 million and a 25-property portfolio of golf course assets in seven states valued at $230 million. He has been an adjunct professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where he taught a course on legal research, writing and analysis. He earned his J.D., graduating magna cum laude, from Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where he was an editor for the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, and earned his bachelor’s degree, graduating cum laude, from the University of Michigan.

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Pircher, Nichols & Meeksis a national real estate law firm with a diversified real estate practice, which includes finance, leasing, joint ventures, sales & acquisitions, equity funds, environmental, land use, tax and corporate matters. The firm maintains offices in Los Angeles and Chicago. For additional information, visit www.pircher.com.