Ted Cominos: A Pivotal Experience

Ted Cominos is an American attorney who began his law career in Eastern Europe. He says he got on a plane bound for that region shortly after completing law school and passing his bar exam. Originally planned as a six-month trip, it expanded into ten years there, and was a pivotal experience in the young lawyer’s career. 

Today, his specialties include international private equity and cross-border M&A. Ted Cominos is a partner in the AMLAW 100 law firm, Faegre Baker Daniels LLP.

Ted Cominos: Emerging Markets

Ted Cominos is a partner in the Chicago-area law firm of Faegre Baker Daniels LLP, which he joined in January of 2016. He has more than twenty years of experience in the law, including ten years practicing in Europe.

He also has an MBA in International management, and is known for his strong commercial and financial acumen. He has written extensively about international business and financial matters, including an article called “Emerging Market Investment – Central & Eastern Europe,” co-written with Cristina Audran-Proca, a London-based colleague at Faegre Baker Daniels. Global markets, they wrote, are beginning to improve after five tough years. “Why the recent recovery? Firstly, because of largely favourable macro-economic winds – commodity prices recovered, US actions having a bearing on emerging markets trade were not as negative as feared, [and] the dollar and US interest rates remained weak. Also, probably because opportunistic and not seasoned emerging markets investor[s] fled, those investors that remained were likely more resilient to the ups and downs that are unavoidable when investing in emerging markets.”

Not all emerging markets are equal, Ted Cominos and his co-author cautioned. Those of Central and Eastern Europe appeared to be amongst the most promising, and should offer compelling opportunities over the next ten years.

Ted Cominos: Financial Acumen

Ted Cominos is a Chicago attorney, and a partner in the firm Faegre Baker Daniels LLP. A native of California, he attended the University of California at Davis, and went on to the Monterey College of Law. He later attended the Monterey Institute of International Studies, where he received his Master of Business Administration in International Management. Ted Cominos is known for his strong commercial and financial acumen, and has advised numerous companies in cross-border corporate, capital and tax structures and complex international mergers and acquisitions.

Ted Cominos: USA STNL Commercial Real Estate

Ted Cominos is an accomplished transactional attorney with extensive experience establishing, advising (and even managing) international private investment funds (private equity, real estate and venture capital). He has approximately 20 years of professional experience and has advised on hundreds of cross-border commercial real estate, private equity, corporate finance, debt finance and investment related transactions. He has previously been an equity partner and ‘Head of International Private Equity’ and/or ‘Chair of Cross-Border Transactions’ at the USA AmLaw 100 firms of Faegre Baker Daniels LLP and/or Locke Lord Edwards LLP, an equity partner and the Head of International Private Equity for the ‘silver-circle’ law firm CMS Cameron McKenna LLP, and (Regional) Head of Private Equity for the ‘magic-circle’ law firm Linklaters LLP.

Ted has extensive experience advising international real estate and private equity  investment funds on (i) corporate, management, tax and capital structures pertinent to the upstream tax-efficient formation and administration, (ii) terms and conditions of LP / investor rights and obligations, (iii) due diligence, structuring, financing, acquisition, leasing and/or development of office, industrial and retail business parks/ malls as well as medical / healthcare facilities and leisure, hotel-resort and casino complexes.

Additionally, Ted has extensive expertise in STNL commercial real estate transactions in the USA, having advised on FIRPTA related capital, tax and corporate structuring issues, as well as the due diligence and leveraged acquisition of single-tenant, net-leased commercial real estate assets on behalf of foreign acquirers.

Throughout his career, he has advised on over one hundred sale-purchase / M&A transactions with transaction values ranging from hundreds of millions to billions of USD$.

Ted holds a Doctorate of Jurisprudence from the Monterey College of law, an MBA in International Management from the Middlebury/Monterey Institute of International Studies, a BA in International Relations from the University of California at Davis, and has completed the ‘Leadership in Professional Services’ program at the Harvard Business School as well as the ‘CRE Investment Analysis’ program of Property Metrics. Ted Cominos is a licensed attorney in good standing with the State of California and the State of Illinois bar associations.