Michael Toussaint

Michael Toussaint offers clients straightforward solutions to their real estate challenges, even around very technical legal or regulatory requirements. No matter how intricate or complex the real estate transaction, he mixes practical advice with unwavering advocacy, always customized to suit each client’s unique needs.

Working closely with commercial landlords and tenants, industrial property developers and investors, property management companies, business owners navigating real estate acquisitions, dispositions and lease agreements, and corporations requiring sophisticated counsel on property-related matters, Michael’s approach to handling real estate disputes is purposeful. He excels at translating complex legal concepts into actionable solutions for his clients, ensuring every deal is structured to align with their strategic goals while mitigating risks.

Michael handles matters relating to virtually all aspects of real estate law, including commercial real estate transactions, financing, leasing, zoning, land use and entitlement issues. Several notable career highlights include:

• Represented a developer in structuring a joint venture for a large-scale land development and homebuilding portfolio.
• Handles lease negotiations and lease administration matters for a national discount supermarket chain.
• Represents one of the nation’s largest drugstore retailers in leasing, acquisition, and disposition of assets.
• Represents a single-family development in acquiring and entitling land for complex horizontal developments.
• Advised investor in the acquisition of a shopping center and negotiation of long term triple-net retail leases with national tenants.

Prior to joining Gould & Ratner, Michael was Corporate Counsel for a Chicago-based private real estate investment firm. While in law school, Michael served as an editor for the DePaul Journal of Art, Technology and Intellectual Property.