Sidney G. Saltz practices in the area of commercial real estate and has been involved, on behalf of foreign and domestic clients, in all types of commercial real estate transactions, including development, leasing, acquisition and sale, financing, and 1031 exchanges. He has represented clients in industrial, office and retail leasing, as well as in ground leases, hotel purchases and sales, movie theater leases, land purchases and sales, and the purchase and sale of large apartment complexes, and has created partnerships, limited liability companies, and other joint ventures. Mr. Saltz is an efficient dealmaker and is skilled at solving problems. He has developed various forms which have been useful in reducing the time required to negotiate various transactions. For example, with one of his colleagues, he created a generic sublease form which has had nationwide acceptance. Mr.

Saltz is an active member of the Real Property. Trust and Estate Section of the American Bar Association, where he served on the Supervisory Council and on various committees, including the Community Outreach Committee, which provides supplementary legal education to attorneys who are members of minority bar associations. He received his J.D. cum laude from Yale Law School, and his B.A. magna cum laude in Political Science from Northwestern University, He has lectured and written extensively on real estate related subjects.