Melissa Billig has joined Jones Day as a partner in its Real Estate Practice. She is based in the Firm's New York Office.
Ms. Billig is an accomplished transactional attorney, construction litigator, and strategic business counselor with more than 25 years of experience advising clients in the development of major real estate projects throughout New York and nationwide. She represents real estate owners, developers, design professionals, and construction executives across their project lifecycles, with a practice that encompasses drafting and negotiating contracts, risk management counsel, claim avoidance, and dispute resolution. Ms. Billig has worked successfully on high-profile, multi-party contract disputes and defective design/construction claims, and she has represented clients in connection with a number of large commercial and residential development projects in Manhattan.
"Melissa brings a valuable combination of transactional sophistication and litigation acumen that makes her an exceptional counselor to our real estate and construction clients," said Brian Sedlak, Co-Leader of Jones Day's Real Estate Practice. "Her hands-on experience advising owners, developers, and construction professionals on complex, high-profile projects in New York and nationwide is a tremendous asset to our team. I am pleased to welcome her to Jones Day."
Ms. Billig joins a global team of 130 lawyers in Jones Day's Real Estate Practice, who provide clients with comprehensive advice across all stages of real estate investment and all major real estate sectors. The practice group delivers seamless collaboration across multiple disciplines, including funds, joint ventures, M&A, finance, development, tax, regulatory, planning/zoning, and environmental. Jones Day's Real Estate clients include private equity real estate funds, institutional investors, public and private companies, REITs, lenders, developers, operators, and managers. The practice group has been recognized byThe Legal 500for its "deep bench of resources" and "attorneys who anticipate client needs and respond quickly with well-crafted, customized solutions."
"Melissa has built an outstanding reputation from her work on some of most significant construction and development projects, in New York and throughout the country, and her breadth of experience across both transactional and litigation work reflects exactly the kind of full-service capabilities that our clients value from Jones Day," said Lee DeJulius, Partner-in-Charge of Jones Day's New York Office.
Ms. Billig earned her law degree from Brooklyn Law School and her undergraduate degree from The State University of New York at Buffalo. She is recognized inChambers and Partnersfor New York Construction Law and inBest Lawyersfor Construction Law and Litigation-Construction, has been listed byNew York Magazineas a "Top Women Leader in the Law" and was named a "Notable Leader in Real Estate" byCrain's New York Business.
"Jones Day's Real Estate Practice is widely regarded as one of the pre-eminent practice groups in our industry, and I am honored to join a team that combines deep local-market knowledge with global reach," said Ms. Billig. "I look forward to bringing my experience in construction and real estate projects to bear for clients across the full range of their development, transactional, and litigation needs, and I'm excited to work alongside my new colleagues in the New York Office."