Darrel R. Davison

Practices

• Real Estate

Professional Experience

Darrel is a partner in the firm's Real Estate practice group. He has a broad-based transactional real estate practice, with an emphasis in acquisitions, dispositions, development matters, financing transactions and commercial leasing. Darrel represents institutional investors with respect to all types of commercial real estate including office, shopping center, industrial, multi-family and mixed-use properties.

Prior to joining the firm in April of 2005, Darrel was in-house counsel to Principal Financial Group in Des Moines, Iowa, where he focused on commercial real estate equity transactions throughout the United States.

Darrel is admitted to practice in Ohio, Michigan, Iowa and Nebraska.

Education

• Cornell University Law School, J.D., 1994
• Iowa State University, B.S., 1989, with distinction

• Representation of public and private companies in numerous acquisition, disposition, development and leasing transactions involving commercial real estate throughout the United States
• Negotiation of multi-million dollar commercial mortgage and unsecured loan transactions, including $200 million unsecured revolving credit facility and $70 million commercial mortgage loan portfolio sale
• Negotiation of $147 million and $27 million dispositions of California office properties
• Negotiation of $110 million disposition of Washington multi-family property
• Representation of client in connection with approximately $230 million industrial portfolio acquisition transaction, involving properties located in Wisconsin, Illinois, Nevada, Mississippi, Arkansas, Indiana, Missouri, Tennessee and Colorado
• Negotiation of $101 million industrial portfolio disposition transaction, involving properties located in Texas, Minnesota, Illinois and Missouri
• Counseled client in connection with asset management responsibilities for $900 million real estate portfolio, including eleven downtown U.S. office properties owned by real estate investment trust
• Negotiation of $98 million disposition of California multi-family property
• Negotiation of $95 million disposition of Florida shopping center property
• Negotiation of $51 million disposition of California multi-family property
• Negotiation of $47 million disposition and $35 million mezzanine loan involving Florida multi-family property
• Negotiation of $47 million disposition of Minnesota mixed-use property
• Negotiation of $45 million disposition of Texas office property (new construction)
• Negotiation of $40 million disposition of Texas industrial properties portfolio
• Negotiation of $40 million disposition of Minnesota office/flex properties portfolio
• Negotiation of $36 million disposition of Tennessee multi-family property
• Negotiation of $34 million disposition of North Carolina multi-family property
• Negotiation of $33 million disposition of Maryland office property
• Negotiation of $32 million disposition of Tennessee industrial property
• Negotiation of $22 million disposition of Missouri multi-family property
• Negotiation of $21 million acquisition of Texas office property
• Negotiation of $17 million disposition of Georgia office property
• Served as counsel to national and regional retailers and developers in negotiating and structuring acquisition, disposition, development and leasing transactions
• Representation of borrowers and lenders in commercial real estate financing transactions
• Experience with title insurance and survey issues, Section 1031 exchanges, easements, zoning law, condominium law, mechanics’ lien law, partition matters, commercial law, construction law, environmental law, homeowner's association matters and residential real estate transactions

• Author, "To Own or Lease: Real Estate Issues for Small Businesses" · The Daily Reporter, September 2002

• "Commercial Leases; Lender Issues"; Ohio State Bar Association, Columbus, Ohio; April 2011
• "Opinion Letters", Des Moines, Iowa; December 2010
• "Commercial Leases; Lender Issues"; Ohio State Bar Association, Columbus, Ohio; May 2010
• "Commercial and Real Estate Loan Documents in Ohio: More Than Just Papers"; Lorman Education Services, Cleveland, Ohio; September 2007
• "Real Estate Lending Requirements and Loan Documentation in Ohio"; Lorman Education Services, Independence, Ohio; September 2006
• "Understanding the Construction Process from the Developer's Perspective in Ohio"; Lorman Education Services, Columbus, Ohio; December 2005
• "Real Estate Lending Requirements and Loan Documentation in Ohio"; Lorman Education Services, Cleveland, Ohio; September 2005
• "Real Estate Opinion Letter Guidelines"; Columbus Bar Association, Real Property Committee; May 2003

• Listed in Legal 500 in Real Estate, 2011