Raymond H. Pruchnicki is a dedicated real estate and hospitality attorney who prioritizes efficient transactions and favorable outcomes for his clients. With his strong negotiation skills, Ray excels at identifying potential issues and building consensus to protect his clients’ interests. His ability to calmly navigate high-pressure scenarios results in amicable negotiations and happy clients.
Ray boasts extensive experience handling a wide range of transactions, including complex purchase and sale agreements, commercial leases and financing agreements. His breadth of work also includes agreements for hotel management, hotel franchise, restaurant management, celebrity chef consulting, bar operations, and licensing.
He has served as real estate counsel with national and regional law firms, as well as in-house counsel for a national build-to-suit retail and industrial development company and for a major hospitality corporation like McDonald’s. His contributions facilitated McDonald’s expansion by assisting with store acquisitions, construction, and redevelopment. This experience heightened Ray’s sensitivity to his clients’ perspectives, enabling him to advocate on their behalf and provide exceptional service in a way they truly appreciate.
In addition, Ray brings a profound understanding of land use and entitlements to the firm’s business, which enhances its core practice by anticipating issues related to development projects and offering new services to clients. He has served as a City Planner for the city of Chicago, as outside counsel to several Chicago-area municipal corporations, and as a master planner embedded with the United States Air Force in southern Afghanistan.