Introduction
Emily Schwebke works on a variety of matters, including helping clients in acquiring, developing, leasing, and financing real estate.
My focus
My practice focuses on counseling and representing clients across a wide spectrum of commercial real estate transactions and asset classes with a focus on acquisitions, dispositions, and leasing, as well as operation and financing of such assets across the country. These transactions involve a broad range of industries, including multifamily housing, affordable housing, urban retail and restaurant spaces, power centers, office buildings, warehouse and industrial properties, and mixed-use properties. I also have significant experience in advising tax equity investors with respect to site control and general real estate guidance in solar leasing and and other renewable energy transactions that generate energy tax credits, as well as experience in assisting in the representation of institutional tax equity investors in affordable housing transactions and affordable housing tax credit syndicators in disposition and acquisition matters.
Looking ahead
In a post-covid world in which employers are more frequently demanding that their employees return to the office, it will be interesting to see if the current gradual recovery and stabilization of the office leasing market will continue, what that will mean as a ripple effect for other real estate asset classes, and also how the rapid growth and omnipresence of AI in industries across the board will affect those broader trends. With leasing activity generally improving across many major markets and net absorption rising, especially for higher-quality, amenity-rich buildings, this trend should spur renewed interest in retail development as in-office attendance stabilizes and foot traffic in these urban centers rises. At the same time, the rise and integration of AI may serve as a meaningful disruptor and headwind to such trends, as companies recalibrate their workforces needs and, accordingly, their overall space requirements.
/Insights
- “Real Estate Rundown: Trendy Changes,” Chicago CLE Symposium, Chicago, Illinois, June 7, 2018
- “2018 Food & Beverage Crystal Ball: Trends We’re Following,” Food, Beverage & Agriculture Alert, January 3, 2018
In the news
- Tax Credit Advisor
A record setting preservation deal closes in Oregon and New Mexico
Oct 6, 2025This article covers Guardian Real Estate Services’ acquisition of a total of 3,050 units across 15 properties in both Oregon and New Mexico from seller GSL Properties, representing $497 million in assets. NP represented investor JP Morgan in connection with the deal. The NP team is led by Community Development Finance partners Andrew Tripp of Chicago and Nick Anderson of Washington, DC, and counsel Alejandro Amezcua of Chicago; Chicago Corporate partner Brian Krob; and Chicago Affordable Housing & Real Estate counsel Emily Schwebke.
- Affordable Housing Finance
People on the move
Feb 26, 2024This roundup of moves across the affordable housing industry includes the promotions of Affordable Housing and Real Estate partners Ruben Ravago of New York City and Dana Stanton of Albany, and Community Development Finance partner Sumeet Sharma of Washington, DC. The article also includes the promotions of Affordable Housing and Real Estate counsel Kelly Behr of Washington, DC, Ninteretse Jean Pierre of Rochester, and Emily Schwebke of Chicago, and Community Development Finance counsel Nicole Hixon of Boston.
- The Deal
Deal diary-Blackstone and KKR chalk up more insurance investments
July 15, 2021In two separate articles, the publication highlighted the firm for advising American International Group, Inc. in the pending sale of a $5.1 billion affordable housing portfolio to Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust. Washington, DC Community Development Finance partner Liz Young is noted in one of the stories for leading the NP deal team.
In addition to Liz, the NP team includes Affordable Housing & Real Estate partner Dara Histed, Project Finance & Public Finance partner Carla Young, Community Development Finance senior counsel Jeff Lesk, and Corporate partner John Partigan, all of Washington, DC; Global Finance partner Amanda Darwin, Affordable Housing & Real Estate associates Julie Stande and Ali Walendziak, and Community Development Finance associate Nury Aguasvivas, all of Boston; Affordable Housing & Real Estate associate Emily Schwebke and Project Finance & Public Finance resident attorney Jacalyn Smith, both of Chicago; Manchester Affordable Housing & Real Estate associate Talia Burghard; Long Island Affordable Housing & Real Estate paralegal Lori Esposito; and Los Angeles Corporate paralegal Mina Gonzaque-Taylor.
- Washington Business Journal
Exclusive-The Meridian Group lands notable new tenant for 1333 New Hampshire
This article mentions NP for advising the American Bankers Association on the lease of its new 87,000-square-foot headquarters. Washington, DC office managing partner Colette Dafoe and Chicago associate Emily Schwebke, both of the Affordable Housing & Real Estate group, negotiated the lease on behalf of ABA while Rochester Affordable Housing & Real Estate partner Darren Miller led negotiations on construction and architect agreements for the build-out.June 1, 2021
Admitted to practice
Illinois
Alabama
Colorado
Education
Wake Forest University School of Law, J.D.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A.
Recognition
- Received a Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch 2024 recognition in the field of Real Estate Law; listed in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch since 2023.
Insights And Happenings
View AllProfessionals in the Practice Area
View AllChristopher R. Froeb
Partner / Practice Group Leader, Real Estate & Affordable Housing- Boston
- Office:+1 617.345.1137
- cfroeb@nixonpeabody.com
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Colette A. Dafoe
Partner / Industry Strategy Partner- Washington, DC
- Office:+1 202.585.8393
- cdafoe@nixonpeabody.com
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Ian T. O'Banion
Partner / AIA / LEED®AP- San Francisco
- Office:+1 415.984.8313
- iobanion@nixonpeabody.com
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