Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Commercial Real Estate

Senior Counsel - Real Estate

Greg Hummel has helped clients "get to yes" in a range of complex projects and transactions over his 40-plus years of law practice. These positive outcomes often involve finding gap funding necessary to make deals feasible, identifying sources of recurring revenue to anchor a project’s development and ultimate operation, achieving regulatory relief or the necessary permits to allow projects to proceed, or driving consensus among key stakeholders to achieve critical agreements.

This deal making ability arose from Greg’s varied experience and thought leadership. For the first 20 years of his career, Greg practiced as counsel to some of the nation’s largest real estate developers and lenders, undertaking complex real estate projects and transactions. He then focused on drafting and negotiating design and construction contracts for institutional owners that revitalized their holdings or program and construction managers overseeing complex projects. In the last 20 years, Greg has acted as either underwriter’s or bond counsel for investment banks or municipalities providing infrastructure to master planned communities or undertaking brownfield redevelopment or other economic development and job creation activities.

Today, he combines this experience in a public-private partnership practice where he represents states, territories, counties and municipalities in complex redevelopment or infrastructure projects or when he acts for major companies seeking incentives for new headquarters, distribution centers, call centers, R&D facilities and the like.

His thought leadership is marked by writing and speaking on a range of timely legal and business topics including, most recently, Biden infrastructure planning and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Chips Act and the Inflation Reduction Act. He has been an Urban Land Institute trustee and foundation governor since 2001. He helped found the American College of Construction Lawyers in 1989 and remains active as a speaker and writer on public private partnerships there and in the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and before the Practicing Law Institute. He has led the Chicago Central Area Committee since 2012 and is working with the City of Chicago on its Invest South + West, We Will and Central Area Planning Project slated for 2023-2024.  The learning and relationships he has gained from these and other organizations enables Greg to discern trends, influence behaviors and, in some instances, develop trends. One notable area where today he is helping to shape trends is social impact investing.

The bottom line - Greg skates to where to puck is going and keeps his eyes on the client’s goal. Clients value his ability to "get to yes" through his extensive knowledge base, strategic collaboration and creative problem solving, all designed to help them meet their needs and achieve their business objectives.

CIVIC INVOLVEMENT & HONORS The Best Lawyers in America®, Real Estate Law - Chicago, 2021-Present Lutheran General Hospital Governing Board - Advocate Health Care System, Former Member MacMurray College - Former Trustee The Presbyterian Homes - Life Trustee University of Chicago - Music Department Visiting Committee, former Member Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Governing Board, former Member Urban Land Institute – Trustee and Key Leader Urban Land Institute Foundation - Governor American Red Cross 2023 Wesbury Leadership Award March of Dimes 2021 Leadership in the Private Sector Award PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Bar Association Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law - Former Council Member American College of Construction Lawyers – Founder and Former President American College of Real Estate Lawyers - Former Chairman, Smart Growth Task Force Chicago Central Area Committee - Board of Directors; Chair ChildServ and Homes for Children Foundation - Board of Directors Council of Development Finance Agencies - Steering Committee, Tax Increment Financing Coalition Economic Club of Chicago - Member Illinois Tax Increment Financing Association - Board of Directors International Bar Association - Former Co-Chair, Committee on International Construction Projects Lambda Alpha, Ely Chapter - Former President