CHICAGO — Global law firm Dentons has extended its lease at Willis Tower in Chicago for 15 years. Dentons will relocate within the building and occupy 144,000 square feet of new space. Willis Tower is a 4.5 million-square-foot office/retail building in Chicago. The building is home to more than 100 different companies, including the global headquarters of United Airlines. Dentons is the world’s seventh-largest law firm with 2,500 lawyers. Mike Kazmierczak, Derek Rolison and Bob Wislow of U.S. Equities Asset Management represented 233 S. Wacker Drive LLC, the building’s owner, in the transaction. Stuart Eisenkraft, Andrew Sussman, Lewis Miller, Patrick Nelson, Paul Stimpfle, Todd Lippman and Lisa Konieczka of CBRE represented Dentons. U.S. Equities Asset Management has managed leasing at the iconic Chicago building since 2007.
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