What We Do

Representative Experience

• Served as one of two outside counsel handling nationwide big-box leasing transactions for a publicly traded office supply retailer. During this two-year period, the firm has handled in excess of 175 lease transactions on a per store fixed-fee basis with guaranteed turnaround times. This is only one of several national retailers for whom we provide nationwide leasing services. Others include a publicly traded fashion and craft retailer and one of the world’s largest chains of quick service restaurants.
• Serves as general counsel to a fund formed to acquire sites and develop as shopping centers.
• Serves as leasing and general counsel for a chain of Irish pubs located throughout the Midwest.
• Serves as leasing counsel to a national superstore retailer of fabrics and crafts.
• Represented a partnership, the seller, in the sale of a local shopping center.
• Represented several national developers in the sale and disposition of five retail shopping centers with an aggregate value of more than $20 million.
• Managed a three-part transaction on behalf of multiple parties where the buyer acquired a shopping center in North Olmsted, Ohio, and then completed a like-kind exchange of a half interest in the shopping center for a commercial building in Mentor, Ohio.
• Represented the purchaser of a grocery store-anchored shopping center in Page, Arizona, in the purchase and debt financing of the shopping center.
• Represented the lender in the $9 million refinancing of a Cleveland area shopping mall.
• Represented the borrower in the closing of a $3.25 million non-recourse mortgage loan for a shopping center.
• Represented a national real estate lender with several real estate and construction financing transactions, including shopping center properties and condominium conversions.
• Represented the owner of a shopping center in Canton, Ohio, in a $3.5 million refinancing and construction loan with a major Cleveland-based financial institution.
• Represented the owner of a strip center in Cincinnati, Ohio, in a $7,050,000 construction loan to finance the renovation and expansion of the strip center and in the lease of out parcels to national restaurant chains.
• Structured the sale of a 66,000 square-foot shopping center in Canton, Ohio, as a tax-deferred, Section 1031 like-kind exchange.
• Representing the landlord in the leasing of Bayshore Town Center, a regional Wisconsin shopping mall that has been converted to a town center format.
• Representing a landlord in the acquisition, development and leasing of The Greene, a 65-acre Beavercreek, Ohio, town center format shopping center with adjacent movie theater.
• Served as leasing counsel to a national office supply superstore retailer in its national expansion program.
• Representing the landlord in leases with the following national chains:

Advance Auto

Blockbuster Inc.

Captain D’s

Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.

Hollywood Video

Nextel

O’Charley’s, Inc.

Panera Bread

PNC Bank, N.A.

Regis Salons

Starbucks Corporation

The Sherwin Williams Company

Verizon Wireless

• Representing the buyer in the purchase of six strip centers located in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina; the acquisition of the centers was done by tenants in common to facilitate Section 1031 exchanges.
• Represented the landlord in the leasing of retail and restaurant space at Easton Town Center in Columbus, Ohio.
• Represented the landlord in the leasing of retail and restaurant space at Newport on the Levee Shopping Center in Newport, Kentucky.
• Represented the landlord in the leasing of retail and restaurant space at Zona Rosa Shopping Center in Kansas City, Missouri.
• Represented the landlord in the leasing of retail and restaurant space at Peninsula Town Center in Hampton, Virginia.
• Represented the landlord in the leasing of retail and restaurant space at Centro Ybor Shopping Center in Tampa, Florida.