Education

• Miami University

  (B.S., 2001)

• Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University

  (J.D., 2004)
  Order of the Curia, Executive Editor, Northern Kentucky Law Review

Admissions

• State of Ohio
• Commonwealth of Kentucky

• Real estate counsel to one of the world’s largest, NYSE-traded, quick service restaurant chains in the leasing and refranchising of company-owned stores throughout the United States.
• Real estate counsel to one of the country’s largest long-term pharmacy services providers in leasing, acquisitions, and sales of company-owned pharmacies, distribution, and office facilities.
• Counsel to real estate investment funds and managers focusing on shopping center and neighborhood retail assets throughout the United States.
• Represents one of the fastest growing full-service restaurant chains and wineries in the country in the leasing, acquisition, and development of its restaurant and production properties.
• Represents an integrated developer with development and leasing for its large-scale, mixed-use retail and lifestyle centers, including some of the most famous retailers in the world.
• Served as counsel for a developer on a $200 million, 75-acre, mixed-use, brownfield redevelopment commercial project located in Cincinnati, Ohio, including negotiations for purchase and sale agreements on the acquisition of the site and disposition of lots to anchor tenants, site development agreements, master declarations, sub-declarations, and all public and private financing, including traditional secured debt, TIF financing for infrastructure improvements, and private capital financing for development and construction costs.
• Serves as general counsel to a wide variety of businesses, handling general business, contracts, and transactions.

Client Alerts

• "Economic Aid Act – PPP Loan Program Reopened and Expanded," Ulmer & Berne LLP Client Alert (January 2021)
• "The CARES Act Update – PPP Flexibility Act of 2020," Ulmer & Berne LLP Client Alert (June 2020)
• "The CARES Act Update – Safe Harbor Materially Revised," Ulmer & Berne LLP Client Alert (May 2020)
• "PPP New Safe Harbor – SBA Publishes Important Updates to FAQ and New May 18, 2020 Deadline," Ulmer & Berne LLP Client Alert (May 2020)
• "The CARES Act Update – Paycheck Protection Program: Expanded SBA 7(a) Emergency Loans for Small Businesses Suffering COVID-19-Related Economic Injury," Ulmer & Berne LLP Client Alert (April 2020)
• "The CARES Act – Paycheck Protection Program: Expanded SBA 7(a) Emergency Loans for Businesses," Ulmer & Berne LLP Client Alert (March 2020)
• "SBA COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loans and More," Ulmer & Berne LLP Client Alert (March 2020)

Presentations

• “Can You Hear Me Now? The Reception to Cell Towers from Property Owners and Purchasers,” Ulmer Webinar (March 2023)
• “Important Recent PPP Updates, New Rules and Deadlines—The Latest Information,” Ulmer Webinar (May 2020)
• “Top 10 Commercial Lease Provisions,” NBI Seminar (April 2012)
• “Drafting Commercial Loan Documents,” Cincinnati Bar Association (August 2011)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• International Council of Shopping Centers
• Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW), Greater Cincinnati Chapter
• National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP)
• University of Cincinnati Real Estate Roundtable

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

• FineArts Fund (Fundraising Committee)
• United Way
• ProKids (Board of Trustees)

• Ranked as one of Ohio’s “Leaders in Their Field” in Real Estate by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2022-2023)
• Named to The Best Lawyers in America^©, Real Estate Law (2020-2023)

• Chambers USA 2023 Report Gives Ulmer Top Marks
• Ulmer Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America© 2023 Report
• Ulmer Earns Top Marks in Chambers USA 2022 Report
• Ulmer Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America© 2022 Report
• Best Lawyers® 2020: 60 Ulmer Attorneys Recognized, Two Partners Named “Lawyer of the Year”
• Stephen G. Nesbitt Appointed to ProKids Board of Trustees