Examples of Cases and Transactions Handled as the Lead Outside Counsel

• Various refinancings, including one in which, by restructuring the proposed loan, I saved the borrower almost $600,000 in State and local transfer and recordation taxes

• Workouts of loans and leases with national developers, including for Wells Fargo Bank over a major retail complex and over a major mixed-use residential subdivision

• A purchase, in a contested bankruptcy proceeding, of an internet service provider's system and contracts, including 20 stations across the country

• A land development partnership dispute for the headquarters site, and surrounding golf course, of a publicly held company

• A termination of leases, totaling 443,214 square feet, against the U.S. General Services Administration

• Portfolio sales, of over 163 properties, many with numerous environmental and other problems, for a total of over $360,000,000, for the U.S. Government's Resolution Trust Corporation; and take-back institutional financing for approximately 80 of those properties; including helping that agency find ways of resolving numerous inter-departmental conflicts, and to comply with various complex, and often contradictory, regulations, to sell those properties and arrange such financing

• Lease termination agreements, with numerous types of tenants, to vacate a major office building for redevelopment

• Successful lobbying, for a local developer, to change the local transfer tax laws, to exempt the transfer, of large acreage, to a planned unit development, thereby making the project feasible

• The issuance of municipal bonds, in the District of Columbia and in Maryland, for (a) the development of a warehouse/distribution center, (b) the acquisition of computer equipment for a college, and (c) the refinancing of a large office building.

• Local counsel opinions, including to the Federal National Mortgage Association for multifamily, multi-asset refinancings.  

• Representing a Maryland state agency in hearings before a Legislative committee.

• Various commercial contracts of sale and leases, including, in addition to those more specifically described herein (a) one in which I revitalized negotiations, which had completely broken off under prior counsel, to acquire a major manufacturing building; and (b) lease-outs of shopping centers for developers, including leases to national tenants.

• A contract of sale and development agreement, with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, for the development of a regional mall, hotels and apartment complexes at one of its major metro-rail stations

• A contract for the development of a resort hotel, signature golf course, marina and residential complex in a foreign country; letters of intent for the development of other such projects in other countries

• Easements and other agreements, for Verizon, for the development of an office park

• Purchases and like-kind exchanges, for Verizon, of over 40 buildings

• A participating ground lease, for Verizon, for a 300,000+ square foot office building

• A sale of 125 cellular tower sites, for Verizon, including handling various land use issues associated therewith

• A contract, for Exxon Mobil, for the acquisition of two golf courses for residential, retail, and office development

• Acquisitions of land, for Lincoln Property Company, for development as apartment complexes, including negotiating utility-sharing agreements and permanent financings therefore

• An Up-REIT, involving six apartment projects, with a then Sam Zell entity

• An agreement, with Greg Norman and a golf course developer, for the development of a signature golf course in the middle of a residential subdivision

• Sale of a package of 7 retail outlets

• Sales and purchases of hotels, including handling liquor license and sales tax issues

• A sale of two apartment complexes for a national developer

• Amendment to contract, for the Republic of Finland, for the acquisition of the property upon which it developed a consulate building

• Handling various refinancings, of U.S. properties, by foreign governments

• One of the first synthetic leases

• Leases, for a national developer, with the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, the State of Maryland and others

• Leases for various tenants, including one of my former law firms, the Urban Land Institute, the Municipal Securities Rule Making Board, and a large accounting firm

• Acquisitions, ground leases, space leases, construction contracts and development agreements, for the Hechinger Company, for its 80,000 square foot retail stores and its shopping centers

• Construction contract for the development of an $880,000,000 inner-city rail line with office buildings, hotels and other real estate projects at each station

• Construction contract, for the development of a series of mini-hospitals, totaling more than $49,000,000

• Construction contracts, for the development resort communities, totaling more than $1,700,000,000

• A foreclosure, of the sublease, for the retail floors and annex of the Old Post Office Pavilion in Washington, D.C., for Wells Fargo Bank, and a restructuring of the master lease therefore with the U.S. General Services Administration

• Various partnership and company break-ups, landlord/tenant actions, bankruptcies, and construction disputes

• Numerous administrative hearings representing, or before, agencies of the State of Maryland; representing the State of Maryland in Federal civil rights litigation