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COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE BOUTIQUE
Specializing in Commercial Real Estate and Senior Living Transactions
PRACTICE
AREAS
ACQUISITIONS
We guide our clients through all phases of the acquisition process: preparing the letter of intent, negotiating the purchase agreement, evaluating title, survey and other due diligence, negotiating financing, advising on deal structure, and preparing closing documentation. LLG navigates you through the expected and unexpected to successfully close your deal.
DISPOSITIONS
When you are ready to dispose of your CRE assets, whether through sale or like-kind exchange, we are on your team to navigate and negotiate the disposition to achieve your objective. Our goal is to materialize and maximize your return while minimizing future risk exposure.
SENIOR LIVING TRANSACTIONS
LLG is highly skilled in structuring and closing the acquisition, disposition and financing of senior living facilities, representing owners, investors, operators and management companies alike in all aspects of owning and operating senior living facilities. We represent you in negotiating letters of intent, purchase agreements, operating leases or management agreements. Our practice often involves portfolios of assets across multistate venues. We also represent our clients in regulatory matters that may arise during the course of ownership.
FINANCING
LLG represents our borrower clients in various types of commercial business and real estate loans, whether acquisition financing, construction loans, letters of credit, bridge financing or refinancings. We have extensive experience in bank as well as agency financing transactions. We guide you through negotiating loan documentation, diligence, legal opinions and closing requirements for a timely and efficient closing.
LEASING
We represent both landlords and tenants in the leasing of all CRE asset categories - retail centers, office buildings, warehouse and mixed use properties, with extensive experience in both space and ground leases, as well as subleases and assignments. LLG will also guide you through lease amendments, terminations and workouts as the need arises.
BUSINESS/CORPORATE
LLG has significant experience in structuring commercial real estate deals and business ventures. We counsel our clients on the best structure for their objectives, with special emphasis on structure of the venture entity and corporate governance. We prepare not only the basic organizational documents, but also the ancillary business documents needed for the deal.
OUR MISSION
Simply put, the mission of Lankenau Law Group is to ensure that your transaction is planned and executed to fully obtain and maximize your objectives. We help put all the puzzle pieces of your deal in place, at the right time and in the right order, so that your transaction closes seamlessly and efficiently, with your interests vigorously represented from beginning to end. Because we are a boutique law firm, we can apply decades of expertise in highly sophisticated commercial real estate transactions with the agility and efficiency that only smaller firms provide. We answer when you call and reply quickly when you email - because your business is our top priority. We put our vast experience to work for you so that your transaction positions your business for growth and success long after the closing documents are signed. Lankenau Law Group aims to partner with you for the life of your business, one transaction at a time.
About Me.
I am a seasoned attorney representing clients in sophisticated commercial real estate and business transactions for more than three decades. My clients are landlords, tenants, developers, senior living owners, operators and investors and small business owners. I represent them through all phases of the acquisition, disposition, leasing and financing of retail centers, office buildings, senior living facilities, mixed use projects and warehouse projects nationwide. In recent years, I've developed extensive expertise in senior living transactions.
Most of the transactions in which I lend my expertise involve multi-state portfolios of assets, where I sit across the table from a team of big-firm attorneys. Clients describe me as a deal facilitator, an invaluable team member who excels at navigating conflicts and finding common ground to get the deal done, while representing my client's interests to the fullest at all times. I am well known for being highly responsive and detail-oriented, with excellent organizational, relationship-building, and communication skills. I am adept at managing multi-state transaction teams to successfully close transactions and obtain my client's objectives.
I have practiced in small commercial real estate boutiques for most of my career. This background has allowed me to develop deep skills across all aspects of sophisticated commercial real estate transactions involving different asset classes. I do the work so that my clients are assured of attentiveness, responsiveness and the highest quality service at all times. With three grown children having flown the nest, I enjoy traveling, gardening and hanging out with my husband and dogs when not closing clients' deals.
Education and Affiliations
University of Virginia School of Law
Charlottesville, VA - JD
Notes Editor, Virginia Tax Review
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA - BA with Highest Distinction
Phi Beta Kappa
University Judiciary Committee
Zeta Tau Alpha
Bar Memberships
District of Columbia Bar
Maryland Bar
Federal District Court for the District of Maryland
CONTACT
LANKENAU LAW GROUP
ADDRESS
1629 K Street NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20006
Email: plankenau@lanklawgroup.com
Tel: 703-862-8527
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