Margaret Whalen focuses her practice on commercial real estate matters including acquisitions, dispositions, mortgage and mezzanine financing transactions, and commercial mortgage-backed securitizations.
Maggie earned her J.D., summa cum laude, from the University of Illinois College of Law. While in law school, she served as notes editor for the University of Illinois Law Review and was a founding member of the Real Estate Law Society.
Prior to joining Sidley, Maggie was a judicial extern for the Honorable Judge Robert M. Dow of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.