Lisa's deep knowledge of the commercial real estate industry enables her to help clients structure their transactions to meet their unique business needs and objectives.
Overview
Lisa concentrates her practice in the fields of real estate and general business law. She represents clients in a broad range of real estate endeavors and counsels institutional lenders and borrowers in commercial financing, development and construction transactions.
An experienced real estate lawyer, Lisa's practice focuses on complex real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, development, construction, leasing and financing for her clients. She structures, drafts and negotiates purchase and sale contracts, loan and security agreements, like-kind exchange agreements, commercial leases (office, retail, restaurant, ground, industrial and warehouse), easement agreements, subdivision indentures, reciprocal easement agreements, restrictive covenant agreements and sale/leaseback agreements.
In addition to advising clients on office, multi-family, retail and mixed use projects, Lisa also represents institutional lenders and borrowers in a variety of commercial financing transactions, including construction financing, and helps owners and contractors negotiate construction contracts, design/build contracts, and architect contracts.
Experience
- Counsel to a multi-national corporation in connection with its assemblage and acquisition of over 3,000 acres of land for development of industrial plant.
- Counsel to a commercial real estate company in connection with the sale of its portfolio of over 60 shopping centers located throughout the United States.
- Counsel to a REIT in connection with numerous acquisition, development, sale and loan transactions.
- Counsel to regional and national shopping center landlords and tenants.
- Counsel to numerous owners and developers of shopping centers throughout the United States.
- Counsel to borrowers in connection with construction loans, permanent loans, conduit loans and franchise loans.
- Counsel to exchangors in connection with IRC § 1031 like-kind exchanges and reverse exchanges.
- Counsel to lenders in connection with loan origination.
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Recognitions
Recognitions
Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® list, 2023-2027
Professional & Civic Activities
Professional & Civic Activities
Clayton Century Foundation
- Annual Fund Committee, 2011-2015
- Community Building Committee, 2016
Clayton Chamber of Commerce
- Leadership Clayton Class of 2008-2009
Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) of St. Louis
- Legacy Advisory Board, 2012-2019
- Executive Board of Directors, 2002-2007
- Past-President, 2007; President, 2006; President-Elect, 2005; National delegate, 2004; Secretary, 2002 and 2003
Gateway to Hope
Missouri Growth Association
- Board of Directors, 2006-2007
American Bar Association
The Missouri Bar
Illinois Bar Association
Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
St. Louis County Bar Association
Practices & Industries
Admissions
- Missouri, 1995
- Illinois, 1996
Education
St. Louis University, J.D., 1995
Smith College, B.A., 1990
