Margaret Linkous
Counsel
She/Her/Hers
Chicago
margaret.linkous@lw.com
+1.312.876.6522
PRACTICES
- Real Estate
INDUSTRIES
EDUCATION
- BA in English, Amherst College,
- JD, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law,
cum laude
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
PROFILE
Margaret Linkous advises clients across industries on a wide range of high-profile real estate transactions.
Margaret draws on more than a decade of transactional real estate experience, including as in-house real estate and corporate development counsel at General Motors, to help clients navigate:
- Complex single-asset acquisitions and dispositions
- Portfolio acquisitions and dispositions
- Entity-level mergers and acquisitions
- Debt and equity financings
- Sale leaseback transactions
- Landlord- and tenant-side commercial leases in office, retail, industrial sectors
She takes a solutions-oriented approach and tailors each real estate structure to address clients’ particular business goals and strategy.
Margaret maintains an active pro bono practice and represents transgender clients seeking name changes and victims of domestic violence. She also supports community causes as a former junior board member and current fundraiser for the Alzheimer’s Association and as a host for The Dinner Party, which connects people in their 20s and 30s who have experienced the loss of a loved one.