Education

• The Ohio State University

  (B.S., summa cum laude, 1974)

• Cleveland State University College of Law

  (J.D., magna cum laude, 1985)
  Editor, The Cleveland State Law Review, Managing Editor, Journal of Law and Health

Admissions

• State of Ohio

• Represents developers in the development of urban properties utilizing historic tax credits, conservation easements, and new markets tax credits.
• Counsels and represents developer and corporate clients on the acquisition, financing, divestiture and development of real estate projects.
• Extensive experience handling leasing and financing transactions, land development, zoning and environmental issues.
• Represents entrepreneurial developers of office buildings, hotels, shopping centers, condos, apartments, historic restorations, adaptive reuse, new development and multi-family housing.
• Counsels real estate lenders on construction, permanent financing matters and tax credit financing.
• Counsels clients on all aspects of the purchase, construction, sale, lease or sublease of property, office buildings, and retail spaces.
• Advises clients and provides services for entity formation and structure and other corporate matters.
• Counsels investors in connection with tax credit investments.
• Knowledgeable in HUD and Fannie Mae Guidelines and requirements for multifamily property lending, including representation of Fannie Mae DUS lenders in the documentation and closing of Fannie Mae Multifamily loans.

Client Alerts

• "Opportunity Knocks Again in Ohio: New Tax Credit for Opportunity Zones," Ulmer & Berne LLP Client Alert (June 2019)
• “Tax Credit Investments Not Subject to Volcker Rule Prohibitions,” Ulmer & Berne LLP, Client Alert (February 2014)
• “IRS Issues Rehabilitation Tax Credit Safe Harbor,” Ulmer & Berne LLP, Client Alert (January 2014)

Publications

• “Top 10 Things You Should Know About Historic Tax Credits,” Properties (November 2013)

Presentations

• “Cleveland’s Destination: Pandemics, Protests – Where Do We Go from Here and How are We Getting There?” CREW Webinar (June 2020)
• “The Importance of ROI (Retail, Office & Industrial), Investment & Healthcare,” Cleveland Commercial Real Estate Summit, Midwest Real Estate News (June 2016)
• “Current HTC Structures,” Novogradac Historic Tax Credit Conference (September 2015)
• “Retail, Office, Industrial and Healthcare,” Cleveland Commercial Real Estate Summit, Midwest Real Estate News (May 2015)
• “Risks and Rewards – Success stories from our “Seasoned” CREW Members,” CREW (April 2015)
• “Historic Tax Credits,” Real Estate Law Institute (November 2014)
• “Safe Harbor Provisions for Historic Tax Credit,” First Federal of Lakewood (March 2014)
• “Financing HTC Projects,” Novogradac Historic Tax Credit Conference (September 2013)
• Frequent lecturer on business and real estate topics for the Cleveland Bar Association Real Estate Institute and Heritage Ohio; Urban Land Institute; CREW; Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs and numerous business, real estate organizations.
• “Fiscal Cliff Averted – What Lies Ahead in Real Estate,” panelist, Tax Credit Update, Cohen & Company’s Real Estate Round Table (January 2013)
• “Understanding the Opportunities of Tax Credits,” Roundtable Discussion (January 2013)
• “Key Challenges for Women General Counsel and Women Senior Partners,” Women in Law Leadership Conference (October 2012)
• “Non-Performing Loans – The Practical and The Technical,” New Markets Tax Credit Spring Conference (June 2012)
• “Demystifying the Syndication Process,” panelist, 2012 Annual Preservation and Revitalization Conference (May 2012)
• “Historic Tax Credit Workshop,” Heritage Ohio Historic Tax Credit Workshop (September 2009)
• “A Comprehensive Overview of the Alphabet Programs: TARP, ARRA, PPIP and More,” Bailout/Stimulus Forum (July 2009)
• “Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization,” Heritage Ohio Annual Meeting (May 2009)
• “Formula for Success:  HTC + the NMTC + State Tax Credits,” The Novogradac Conference (April 2008)
• “State Historic Tax Credits,” The Ohio Housing Council Summer Symposium (July 2007)
• “Redevelopment of the Detroit Shoreway Project and the Development of the Arts District,” CREW Cleveland Annual Professional Development Seminar (May 2007)
• “Eminent Domain,” CREW Midwest Regional Conference Detroit, Michigan (May 2007)
• “Legal Issues:  Syndication” The Ohio Historic Tax Credit Training Seminar (May 2007)
• “Urban Development Tools – Overcoming Eminent Domain, Bureaucracy and Other Impediments to Urban Development,” CREW Midwest Regional Conference (May 2007)
• “Alternative Financing,” Cohen & Company (March 2007)

• American Bar Association
• Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association (Real Estate Section; former Chair; Environmental Law Section)
• Greater Cleveland Real Estate Organization (former President)
• CREW (Member; former President and national delegate)
• Cuyahoga County Improvement Corporation (former Board Member)
• Cuyahoga County Economic Development Loan Review Committee
• Neighborhood Housing CDC (former Board Member)
• OSBA Certified Specialist in Business, Commercial and Industrial Real Property Law
• Arthritis Foundation (former Board Member)
• Heritage Ohio (President, Board of Advisors)

FIRM INVOLVEMENT 

• Management Committee

HONORS

• Ranked as one of Ohio’s “Leaders in Their Field” in Real Estate by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2015-2022)
• AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated – Martindale-Hubbell
• Named to The Best Lawyers in America^©, Real Estate Law (2009-2024)
• Named to the Ohio Super Lawyers list (2008-2023)
• Named to Cleveland’s Top 25 Women Lawyers (2021) and Ohio’s Top 50 Women Lawyers (2021) by Super Lawyers
• “Notable Women in Law,” Crain’s Cleveland Business (2018)
• Named to the 2016 Commercial Real Estate Hall of Fame by Midwest Real Estate News
• CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women) National Deal of the Year Award (2003)
• CREW Klausner Leadership Award
• Cleveland Restoration Society Award
• YWCA Women of Professional Excellence (2009)

CERTIFICATIONS

• Certified Specialist in Business, Commercial and Industrial Real Property Law, Ohio State Bar Association

• Ulmer Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2024 Report
• Ohio Super Lawyers Recognizes 69 Ulmer Attorneys in 2023 Lists
• Ulmer Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America© 2023 Report
• Ulmer Earns Top Marks in Chambers USA 2022 Report
• Ohio Super Lawyers Recognizes Ulmer Attorneys in 2022 Lists
• Ulmer Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America© 2022 Report
• Ulmer & Berne Honored in Chambers USA 2021 Edition
• Ohio Super Lawyers Honors Ulmer Attorneys in 2020 Lists
• Mary Forbes Lovett Elected to Ulmer & Berne’s Management Committee
• Best Lawyers® 2020: 60 Ulmer Attorneys Recognized, Two Partners Named “Lawyer of the Year”
• Ulmer & Berne Receives Top Rankings from Chambers USA