Greater Chicago Area
Carmen Hernandez, has been with Clayco, a global architectural, engineering, design-build, and construction firm, since 2013. During the past several years, Ms. Hernandez has focused on representing Clayco and its subsidiaries in dozens of complex and innovative real estate construction and design-build projects, from negotiating contracts, ranging from $50 million to $800 billion million, to effectively resolving any project related disputes. As General Counsel, she advises Clayco on a wide range of corporate, finance, employment and litigation matters. She also routinely leads any corporate acquisitions, start-up of new ventures and negotiating domestic and international contracts necessary for Clayco to deliver materials to new projects on-time and as-promised to its clients. Clayco’s legal team touches nearly every aspect its business, with approx. $5 billion in revenues annually and more than doubled 3,000 employees, with a continued mission to provide effective solutions for our companies, our clients and our communities. Prior to joining Clayco, Ms. Hernandez (then known as Carmen H. Lonstein) was at Baker & McKenzie LLP, where she was chair of the firm's Financial Restructuring Practice Group in North America. She has more than 26 years of experience representing clients in complex commercial, real estate, and corporate transactions and financial matters and related litigation in US courts.
Focusing on new projects, transactions and business ventures from the Chicago headquarters, litigation, risk avoidance, infrastructure pursuits, finance and other general legal and business matters.
Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, Ms. Lonstein chaired the Restructuring Group at Bell Boyd and Lloyd LLP where she practiced from 2001 through mid-2008.
Ms. Lonstein started her career in 1987 at the Miami headquarters of Greenberg Traurig LLP at the height of the recession in the late ‘80’s, developing significant expertise in complex real estate related corporate restructurings, bankruptcy, finance and related transactional and litigation matters.