Jennifer A. Wieclaw
Special Counsel
Duane Morris LLP
30 South 17th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103-4196
USA
Phone: +1 215 979 1831
Fax: +1 215 689 4963
Email: JAWieclaw@duanemorris.com

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

• Represented the borrower, a publicly-traded wholesale motor fuel distributor, in connection with a syndicated credit facility of up to $324 million.
• Represented an American petroleum and petrochemical manufacturer in documenting the transfer of an industrial complex to subsidiaries for $60 million.
• Represented the operator of nursing homes in connection with the lease of a portfolio of 18 nursing homes in Pennsylvania.
• Represented the borrower in a $24 million loan secured by a portfolio of approximately 1,300 single-family homes.
• Represented a nonprofit organization in the simultaneous divestiture of six of its seven skilled-nursing facilities, plus a HUD housing facility and a senior-housing facility, to two separate for-profit purchasers for an aggregate purchase price of $83 million.
• Represented the borrower in a $125 million syndicated loan facility secured by 187 service stations in four states.
• Represented the borrower in a $37.5 million syndicated credit facility for the acquisition of 34 service stations.
• Represented the borrower in a syndicated credit facility in excess of $50 million for the acquisition of 85 service stations in two states, along with subordinate purchase money financing in excess of $12 million.
• Represented an affiliate of New Jersey-based Four Springs Capital Trust, a newly formed real estate investment trust, in its purchase of a 14,560-square foot Walgreens in Greenville, North Carolina for $5.625 million. The single-tenant, net-leased transaction included an assumption of the existing commercial mortgage-backed security (CMBS) loan.
• Represented tenants in lease negotiations for general office, medical office, laboratory and warehouse and distribution space ranging from approximately 3,000 square feet to 181,000 square feet.
• Represented one of the secured lenders in the General Growth Properties bankruptcy in the modification of loans totaling in excess of $365 million secured by six shopping centers.
• Represented the lender in connection with the restructuring of loans in excess of $82 million to a residential real estate developer secured by nine residential developments.
• Represented the purchaser of a biofuels plant through a Section 363 sale.
• Represented a residential real estate developer in connection with construction loans ranging from $2.2 million to $94.8 million.
• Represented a hotel owner/operator in connection with construction loans in excess of $22 million.

Professional Activities

• American Bar Association
• Pennsylvania Bar Association

Admissions

• Pennsylvania
• U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Education

• George Washington University Law School, J.D., with honors, 2001
  Member, The George Washington Law Review
• Dickinson College, B.A., magna cum laude, 1998

Experience

• Duane Morris LLP
  - Special Counsel, 2011-present
  - Associate, 2005-2011
• Spector Gadon & Rosen, P.C.
  - Associate, 2004-2005
• Reed Smith LLP
  - Associate, 2001-2002

Honors and Awards

• Pennsylvania Rising Star, 2012 and 2013

Selected Publications

• Co-Author, "Title Policies," Common Ground, Issues 2 and 3, 2005
• Author, "Waiver by Another Name: The Law of the Case," 69 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 538, 2001