Nancy A. Pacher
President and Chief Operating Officer
NPacher@usequities.com
312.456.7000
 

Nancy Pacher, a Principal of U.S. Equities Realty, has been the firm’s president and chief operating officer since 1993 and the director of the Real Estate Consulting and Brokerage Services group since joining the firm in 1984. An attorney, Pacher has gained national recognition for her representation of major space users.

Pacher has acted as chief negotiator in major lease and lease/equity transactions totaling tens of millions of square feet for office space users throughout the United States. Pacher has twice received the coveted “Broker of the Year” award presented by Crain’s Chicago Business, first in 1987 for her work completed during 1986, and in 2005, for transactions consummated in 2004. She has been a finalist in four other years. Other professional accomplishments include: Commercial Property News “Top Brokers 2004,” Crain’s Chicago Business “100 Most Influential Women in Chicago” in 1996 and Honorary Mention in 2004, Crain’s Chicago Business “Who’s Who in Chicago Business” since 2005, and Today’s Chicago Woman 20th Anniversary Hall of Fame.

Pacher’s clients have included: ABN-AMRO; American College of Healthcare Executives; the American Hospital Association; American Medical Association; Aronberg Goldgehn Davis & Garmisa; Baker & Daniels; Baker & McKenzie LLP; BankBoston; The Boston Consulting Group; The Chicago Conservation Center; The Chicago Park District; Chicago Sun-Times; Citadel Investment Group; Comerica Bank; Compuware Corporation; Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman; Drinker Biddle & Reath; Erikson Institute; Freeman, Freeman & Salzman; HBR Consulting; Hewitt Associates; Hinshaw & Culbertson; IBM Corporation; Illinois Housing Development Authority; Jenner & Block; Katten Muchin Rosenman; LaSalle National Bank; Lord, Bissell & Liddell LLP; Marsh & McLennan Companies; McCullough, Campbell & Lane; McDermott, Will & Emery; Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone; Near North National Group; Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation; Northwestern Memorial Hospital; Playboy Enterprises; The Polk Bros. Foundation; Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center; Russell Reynolds Associates; Shefsky & Froelich; Sidley & Austin; The Spencer Foundation; Strauss & Troy; Winston & Strawn; The Women's Group of Northwestern; and The YMCA of the USA.

Before joining U.S. Equities, Pacher served for four years as a Senior Vice President and Principal of Howard Ecker & Co. She began her real estate career in 1975 as the first woman attorney at the Chicago law firm of Katten, Muchin, Gitles, Zavis, Pearl & Galler (now Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP).

Pacher graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Georgetown University and received her Juris Doctor degree from Northwestern University.

Affiliations
Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago Board of Directors, 2003-2004
Building Project Committee, 2004
American Bar Association Member
Chicago Bar Association Member
The Chicago Network Board of Directors, 2003-2009; Chair, 2005-2006; Vice Chair/Chair Elect, 2004-2005
Membership Committee Chair, 2003-2004
Professional Services Subcommittee Chair, 2001-2003
Children's Memorial Hospital Board of Directors Board Member, 2009-present
City of Chicago Plan Commission Commissioner, 1994-2012
Communities in Schools Chicago Board Member, 2009-2010
The Economic Club of Chicago Member
Francis W. Parker School Board of Directors, 1991-1997
Illinois Real Estate Journal Editorial Advisory Board
Leadership Greater Chicago Board of Directors, 1996-2001
Selection Committee Co-Chair, 2001
Northwestern University School of Law Board Member
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Auxiliary Board, 2002-2003