Jay S. Readey
Of Counsel
Phone 312.660.9907
Email jreadey@ginsbergjacobs.com
Jay S. Readey focuses his practice on real estate finance, community development, tax-advantaged investing, and corporate transactions. His experience includes representing Qualified Community Businesses and Community Development Entities in low-income community transactions involving New Markets Tax Credits. Jay has been working with New Markets Tax Credits for over a decade, and has been a frequent instructor in New Markets for those new to the field. Jay also maintains an active interest in early-stage growth ventures and angel or venture investor groups.
Prior to joining Ginsberg Jacobs, Jay was executive director of the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, during which time he maintained active involvement in New Markets Tax Credits as part of the Lawyers’ Committee’s extensive transactional community development programming.
- Construction & Development
- Private Equity & Joint Ventures
- Tax Credits & Opportunity Zones
- Taxation
- Yale Law School, J.D., 2004
- Yale School of Management, M.B.A., 2004
- Yale College, B.A. Cum Laude with distinction, 1994
- Illinois
- Cook County Bar Association
- Chicago Bar Association
- National Bar Association
- Presidential Leadership Scholar in the inaugural class of 2015
- Leadership Greater Chicago Fellow 2012
- NeighborScapes – an Illinois Non-Profit, President
- Metro Alliance (a B-Corp Social Venture), Founder & President
- Southland Human Services Council and Southland Juvenile Justice Council, Founding Board Member
- Prairie State College, Board of Trustees
- Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights (CLC), Former Executive Director