Joseph B. Brocato

Senior Partner

Joe Brocato is a senior partner with the firm where he leads the transactional practice group. For more than three decades, he has focused his practice on a full spectrum of business transactions.

In his corporate practice, Joe provides strategically-targeted counsel on complex matters relating to the governance and operation of business entities internationally. He has taken a lead role in numerous sophisticated commercial transactions that involve mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, and joint ventures. His corporate clients include manufacturing, distribution, and services businesses, family offices, private equity firms, healthcare-related entities, as well as professional athletes and entertainers.  

His commercial real estate practice involves tenacious representation of a diverse group of public companies, owners, developers, investors, and tenants. He negotiates and prepares contracts for acquisitions, dispositions, site assemblages, leases for office, retail, industrial properties, and all related financing and ancillary documentation. He has handled transactions for facilities ranging from office buildings, corporate headquarters, multi-family properties, shopping centers, bank branches, and industrial sites.

Joe is an award-winning author on the topic of business relationships, writes for Forbes.com, and is routinely recognized as a “Leading Lawyer” based on a statewide survey of lawyers. Leading Lawyers comprise less than 5% of all lawyers in Illinois.

Joe is featured in Leading Lawyers Magazine.