Jennifer A. Wieclaw concentrates her practice in the area of real estate law. Ms. Wieclaw has a broad transactional practice counseling clients with respect to commercial acquisitions and dispositions, financings and workouts, leasing and joint ventures. Ms. Wieclaw has represented clients with respect to a variety of asset classes, including office, industrial and multi-family residential.
Ms. Wieclaw serves as a representative to the Duane Morris Recruitment and Retention Committee.
Ms. Wieclaw is a 2001 graduate, with honors, of the George Washington University Law School, where she was a member of the George Washington Law Review, and a magna cum laude graduate of Dickinson College.
Representative Matters
ˇ Documenting, negotiating and closing real estate and asset-based loan transactions for both lenders and borrowers ranging from $500,000 to $50,000,000
ˇ $13,000,000 acquisition of two commercial properties
ˇ $3,500,000 acquisition of a medical claims business
ˇ $1,700,000 acquisition of a veterinary business
ˇ $2,750,000 acquisition of a cosmetics business
ˇ $18 million acquisition of an investment management company
ˇ $2 billion sale of a retail bank
ˇ $2.6 billion sale of a loan portfolio
ˇ $150 million recapitalization of secured debt
Professional Activities
ˇ American Bar Association
ˇ Pennsylvania Bar Association
Experience
ˇ Duane Morris LLP
- Special Counsel, 2011-present
- Associate, 2005-2011
ˇ Spector Gadon & Rosen, P.C.
- Associate, 2004-2005
ˇ Reed Smith LLP
- Associate, 2001-2002
Honors and Awards
ˇ Pennsylvania Rising Star, 2012
Selected Publications
ˇ Co-Author, "Title Policies," Common Ground, Issues 2 and 3, 2005
ˇ Author, "Waiver by Another Name: The Law of the Case," 69 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 538, 2001