Kathleen’s practice focuses on facilitating diverse leasing transactions across the commercial, retail, office, and industrial sectors. She has experience drafting, negotiating, and reviewing retail leases, amendments, and associated documentation (including SNDAs and estoppels) on behalf of retail landlords with tenants ranging from small and boutique shops to large-scale grocery stores and other anchors, restaurants, and outparcel establishments. Beyond landlord-side retail leasing, Kathleen offers representation for both landlords and tenants navigating office, industrial, warehouse, and other commercial lease agreements.
In addition to her leasing practice, Kathleen represents clients on property acquisitions, dispositions, new developments, and redevelopments across industrial, retail, office, and multi-family sectors. She provides comprehensive support on these matters, addressing negotiation of purchase agreements, reviewing and attending to title, survey, and environmental considerations, and providing analysis of existing lease and/or title restrictions related to new developments or redevelopments of existing properties. Kathleen also has experience advising clients on zoning regulations, including variance applications and amendments.
Kathleen has extensive experience with analyzing a diverse array of real estate matters and issues, providing strategic counsel to clients with respect to those matters and issues, and overseeing complex real estate transactions and redevelopment projects.
Representative Experience
- Represented a large manufacturing firm on the sale and leaseback of the industrial property out of which they operate in central Ohio for over $22.2 million.
- Represented a leader in the veterinary industry in its acquisition and lease-back of property located in Bloomfield Hills, MI for about $1.5 million.
- Represented a metal manufacturer in the sale of an industrial warehouse in Ohio for over $6 million.
- Represented Custom Glass Solutions LLC, a glass manufacturing firm and portfolio company of Stellex Capital Management, on the sale and leaseback of a property out of which they operate in Upper Sandusky, Ohio for over $22 million. The deal was structured as a sign-and-close sale leaseback with significant financing issues to release the existing mortgage prior to closing.
- Represented LeadsOnline, LLC, a portfolio company of TA Associates, in its acquisition of Nighthawk.cloud, LLC, a provider of data analytics software to law enforcement and investigative agencies.
- Represented an operator of veterinary hospitals in its acquisition of a neighboring parcel of land in connection with the expansion of a veterinary clinic.
- Represented the buyer in its acquisition of a pet treat manufacturing company, a transaction which included a rollover of equity interests.
- Represented Qualus Power Services, a portfolio company of New Mountain Capital, in its acquisition of Ferreira Power Group, a specialized power engineering firm providing distribution palling and design, grid hardening, and program management for utility providers.
- Represented Weinberg Capital Group in the sale of its interest in North American Kitchen Solutions, Inc. (dba Hoodmart).
- Represented sellers in the sale of their industrial and commercial plumbing and HVAC service businesses.