Simone Randolph Elion
Partner
Phone 312.660.9905
Email srandolphelion@ginsbergjacobs.com
Simone is a member of the Firm’s finance, real estate, and tax credit practice groups, where she represents clients across a broad spectrum of financing transactions, including syndicated, mezzanine, and construction financing. She also counsels on loan purchases and sales, as well as restructurings and modifications. Over the course of her career, Simone has represented traditional and non-traditional financial institutions in thousands of financing transactions nationwide. Her experience extends to real estate acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, portfolio management, and a wide range of other real estate matters. Simone takes a collaborative approach to client service, delivering creative, strategic solutions to reinforce a sophisticated, well-rounded transactional practice.
In addition to her active legal practice, Simone is also a member of the board of Women’s Bar Foundation and the PNR Abundant Life Scholarship Foundation. She enjoys traveling and learning new languages.
- Acquisitions & Dispositions
- Commercial Finance
- Tax Credits & Opportunity Zones
- Harvard Law School, J.D.
- Duke University, B.A., Magna Cum Laude
- Illinois
- New York
- Women’s Bar Foundation
- PNR Abundant Life Scholarship Foundation
- Law Bulletin Media, Top Women in Law, 2023-2024
- Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch recognition for Corporate Law and Real Estate Law, 2022-2023
- Rising Star in Law, Crain’s Chicago Business, 2021
- Notable Minorities in Accounting, Consulting & Law, Crain’s Chicago Business, 2020
- Illinois Emerging Lawyer in Real Estate: Commercial and Finance, and Secured Transactions, Law Bulletin Media’s Leading Lawyers, 2019-2020
- Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Fellow, 2021
- Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Pathfinder, 2016