Thompson Coburn partner Cheryl Kelly has been honored as a top real estate attorney in the 2025 edition of the Lawdragon 500 Leading Real Estate Lawyers.The list recognizes legal professionals who excel across a wide spectrum of real estate matters—from complex financings and development projects to high-stakes litigation and REIT structuring.
According to Lawdragon, the list features "advisors who specialize in a vast range of skills—development, finance, leasing, litigation, REIT structuring—on a range of property that can span from a tricky environmental site outside San Diego to a megadevelopment for an energy company in the Middle East to a troubled Manhattan skyscraper converting from commercial to residential."
Cheryl represents lenders and obligors in navigating complex financings from inception through enforcement. Her practice includes assisting clients with construction lending and other financing transactions, restructurings, workouts, foreclosures, receiverships, assignments for the benefit of creditors, bankruptcies, claim and lien disputes and other proceedings involving creditor-debtor relations.
She additionally represents sellers and buyers in asset transfers (including sales and purchases of loans and real estate and transfers in lieu of foreclosure), and landlords, tenants and others in a variety of real estate-related matters (including enforcement of leases). She also handles numerous other commercial law matters.
See the full list of honorees here.