Paul concentrates his practice in hospitality law, health care law and commercial real estate. He is general counsel to an international hotel company. He represents clients in the acquisition, sale, leasing and financing of hotels, medical facilities, office buildings, and retail properties. He works extensively on the restructuring of commercial debt and commercial ventures, purchase of commercial debt, private equity transactions, bank regulatory matters and multiemployer pension fund liability.
He has also served as an expert witness in a variety of matters related to commercial lending and HUD regulation.
Paul regularly speaks on Constitutional issues concerning free speech and on international regulation affecting the hotel and commercial real estate markets.
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
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Represented the buyer of a hotel in Montreal and restructuring of its condo regime.
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Represented the senior lenders in the financing of Trump Tower in Chicago and the restructuring of that financing.
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Represented the buyer of the Allerton Hotel in Chicago.
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Represented the tenant in restructuring the lease of The Signature Room at the 95th.
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Represented the owner of a trademark for an iconic Manhattan deli in preventing infringement.
SPEECHES AND PUBLICATIONS
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Co-Editor of Real Estate Workouts and Turnarounds and Author of chapter therein titled Raising Equity for Distressed Properties, published by Prentice Hall Law and Business, 1989
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Author of Fund Formation Strategies published by Abe Books, 2008
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Author of a blog on the Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, 2021- present
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Spoke to Georgia Bankers Association on “Managing The Exit From Artificially Low Interest Rates: The Reckoning, 2024
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Paul joined Aronberg Goldgehn in 2022. Prior to joining the firm, Paul practiced at Fisher Cohen Waldman Shapiro LLP, a law firm he co-founded. Prior to that, Paul practiced at McGuireWoods, LLP, serving as head of the commercial real estate department in Chicago, and was a partner for 21 years at DLA Piper and its predecessor firm, Rudnick & Wolfe.
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Director of The Heartland Institute
RELATED NEWS
University of Michigan Law School, J.D., 1973
Rockford College, B,A,, 1969
BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS
- Illinois
- Georgia
MEMBERSHIPS
- Chicago Bar Association
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- The Heartland Institute (Director)
PERSONAL
Paul regularly mentors high school and elementary school students, is an avid chess player and teacher and has been a diehard Boston Red Sox fan since his childhood in Boston and a diehard Chicago Cubs fan since moving to Chicago in 1973. Paul has run 10 marathons, including 7 in Chicago, 2 in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin and 1 in Berlin, Germany.
What is one item on your bucket list? Write a book about the mentors, teachers and heroes that taught me so much and the young people who I have mentored.
What would you be doing if you weren’t a lawyer? Own, manage or coach a Major League baseball team.
What is your favorite place in Chicago? Wrigley Field
What is the best vacation you’ve ever been on? A wildlife trip to South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe
What is your favorite restaurant? Girl and the Goat
What is something most people don’t know about you? I won my age group in the Chicago Marathon in 1993 in a time of 2:41:31.
