Industries & Practices
Real Estate
We are an integrated team offering full-service real estate solutions nationwide.
From acquisition, financing and development to investment, leasing and sales, our team assists in all aspects of real estate transactions. First established in the 1940s, our firm’s real estate capability has expanded nationally. In fact, we have participated in transactions in nearly every state in the country.
Types of clients we represent:
- Banks and financial institutions
- Commercial and residential property owners and developers
- Health care systems and hospitals
- Local and state governmental entities and agencies
- Telecommunication companies
- Oil and gas companies
- Electric generation companies
- Hotel owners and developers
Examples of the services we offer:
- Comprehensive drafting of transaction documents
- Thorough due diligence
- Distressed loan workout and collection
- Negotiating the purchase and sale of equity interests
- Debt and equity financing
- Partnerships and joint ventures
- Zoning
- Annexation
- Negotiating governmental development incentives and funding sources
- Land subdivision
- Wetlands and other environmental permitting
- Advise asset management and loan services
Areas of Focus
Lending
We maintain a sophisticated, high-volume commercial lending practice, representing numerous commercial mortgage lenders throughout Ohio and the U.S. Understanding the complex documentation and procedural requirements, our real estate attorneys and paralegals are skilled in handling a variety of loan types and capital transactions and take a solution-based approach to the loan documentation and closing process.
Property Acquisition & Development
Working cooperatively with both public and private entities, our firm handles a wide range of development projects from all sides of the transaction. Whether approached with finance, construction, zoning, environmental or tax questions, we build creative solutions around issues that may arise while obtaining property or throughout the development process.
Tax Credits
From eligibility requirements to financing options to compliance, our commercial finance and development attorneys help clients implement a variety of financing tools, including Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTCs), historic tax credits, various U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) financing programs, Rural Development 538 guaranteed financing, Rural Development 515 financing, various state housing agency financing programs and more. We advise on the real estate, lending, land, investment, compliance and tax implications surrounding these unique financing options.
Hotels & Hospitality
We represent our clients in the acquisition, financing, development, ownership and disposition of real estate assets within the hospitality industry. Our attorneys also assist with day-to-day asset management of hospitality projects and servicing of loans secured by hospitality assets.
Business Formation & Structuring
We help clients form entities to own and invest in real estate assets. This includes the drafting and negotiation of partnership agreements, any equity investments and all types of real estate transactions.
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Our attorneys have represented public and private entities in countless retail, restaurant, medical, professional, industrial and mixed-use leases throughout Ohio and beyond. We review, draft and negotiate commercial lease agreements and have honed specific skills in the telecommunications industry and in wind energy development. We are known for handling a high volume of transactions with speed and consistency.
Energy & Telecommunications
Our attorneys have helped clients with debt and equity financing for the construction of projects and transactions involving extensive real estate, environmental and tax issues. Our services include real estate due diligence; title curative work property acquisition and easement negotiations; document preparation; and work with lenders and equity investors. Within the telecommunications industry, we advise Ohio municipalities regarding ordinance drafting, ensuring the ordinances are compliant with federal and state micro-wireless regulations.
MoreEnvironmental
With vast knowledge of the lending and how it impacts real estate negotiation, we represent lenders and developers in real estate due diligence, title curative work, property acquisition and easement negotiations.
MoreLoan Workouts
Our attorneys frequently represent both borrowers and lenders seeking to restructure troubled credits, negotiating and documenting forbearance, collateral surrender, liquidation, lien subordination and payment subordination transactions, as well as loan agreement amendments and covenant waiver matters.
People
Amy S. Bartemes
Partner
Nicholas I. Bass
Associate
Arlisia R. Caldwell
Paralegal
Robert T. Castor
Partner
David K. Conrad
Partner
Christopher J. Dusseau
Partner
Teresa A. Ehmann
Paralegal
Kristin Eppert
OSBA Certified Paralegal
Price D. Finley
Partner
Maureen C. Flahive
Associate
Christopher T. Furey
Associate
Craig A. Haddox
Partner
Alyson N. Hurley
Staff Attorney
Stephen Intihar
Partner
M. Shannon Martin
Partner
Charles H. McCreary
Partner
Christopher M. Nalls
Associate
Rachel Lusk Stine
Associate
Christopher N. Swank
Partner
Craig E. Sweeney
Of Counsel
Tina M. Waters
OSBA Certified Paralegal
Insights
Experience
Ohio’s largest PACE transaction
Served as PACE counsel on the $16.3 million refinancing of a construction loan. The project funds eligible upgrades to a hotel near The Ohio State University campus in Columbus, Ohio. Energy effici...
More30-day hotel loan deal closing
Represented a bank in a hotel loan deal in which it was extremely important to the bank's customer, the borrower, to close the deal in less than 30 days. As our team dug into the diligence, it ...
MoreEnergy generation facility counsel
Represent Apex Power Group before the Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB) for the proposed Guernsey Power Station, a 1650-megawatt, natural gas-fired energy generation facility. In 2017, the projec...
MoreInternational manufacturer facility in central Ohi...
Retained by an Italian-based company to provide all legal services in the construction and development of a 1.4 million-square-foot manufacturing facility in central Ohio. One of the main aspects o...
MoreRetirement and memory care construction financing
Represented a lender in connection with an $18.5 million construction loan for a retirement and memory-care facility. This deal involved participation from another financial institution.
MoreShopping mall acquisition
Represented a national lender in connection with a $24 million acquisition loan for a 730,000 square foot shopping mall in Massachusetts.
MoreRetail shopping center redevelopment
Represented a national lender in connection with a $18.5 million refinance and redevelopment facility for a 227,000 square foot shopping center.
MorePort authority bond financing for mixed-use develo...
Represented a national lender in connection with a $50.4 million construction loan for a mixed-use development. This deal involved port authority bond financing.
MoreIndustrial manufacturing facility construction fin...
Represented a lender in connection with a construction loan for an innovative industrial manufacturing facility. This deal involved a Small Business Association loan contribution.
MoreMixed-use development construction financing
Represented a lender in connection with $42.3 million construction financing of 261-unit apartment complex, including 31,000 square feet of retail space and 4-level structured parking garage. ...
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