Susan C. Cornett

Practices

• Real Estate

Professional Experience

Susan is an associate in the firm's Real Estate practice group. She focuses her practice on real estate matters, particularly commercial leasing, solar energy facility leasing and purchases, commercial real estate purchases and sales, mortgage lending and mezzanine financing.

Susan is admitted to practice law in the State of Ohio.

Susan also practices in the Cincinnati office:

312 Walnut Street
14th Floor
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202-4089
Phone: 513.352.6810

Education

• University of Cincinnati, J.D., 2004
• University of Cincinnati, M.B.A., 2004
• University of Cincinnati, B.S., 2001

• Represented a NYSE-listed REIT in connection with a $350,000,000 mortgage loan from a national life insurance company, which loan was secured by six shopping centers located in four states and Puerto Rico.
• Represented NYSE-listed REIT in connection with a $85,000,000 mortgage loan secured by shopping centers in Ohio, Georgia and Missouri.
• Represented NYSE-listed REIT in connection with a $23,750,000 loan secured by a shopping center in Columbus, Ohio.
• Represented NYSE-listed REIT in connection with a $30,000,000 loan secured by a shopping center in Phoenix, Arizona.
• Represented developer in connection with a $12,000,000 mortgage loan secured by an office building in Dayton, Ohio.
• Represented borrower in connection with a $12,000,000 mortgage loan secured by an apartment complex in Indiana.
• Represented energy company in the leasing of a 233 acre solar power facility in California.
• Represented energy company in an option to lease up to 525 acres for a solar power facility in California.
• Represented energy company in an option to lease up to 1,200 acres for a solar power facility in Texas.
• Represented developer in connection with the acquisition and compilation of 15 separate properties in connection with a proposed development in Cincinnati, Ohio.
• Represented lender in $28,550,000 mezzanine loan for mixed use development in California.
• Represented a pension trust in the sales of a $23,625,000 shopping center and a $24,000,000 shopping center located in Illinois.
• Represented lender in a $23,400,000 construction loan for a mixed-use project in Tennessee.
• Represented NYSE-listed REIT in a $85,000,000 loan secured by three shopping centers located in Missouri, Ohio and Georgia.
• Represented lender in a $24,500,000 construction loan for a student housing project in North Carolina.
• Represented lender in a $9,000,000 construction loan for renovation of an office/warehouse facility in Ohio.
• Represented lender in modification of a $9,000,000 loan secured by a shopping center in North Carolina.
• Represented NYSE-listed REIT in connection with a $85,000,000 mortgage loan secured by four shopping centers located in Puerto Rico.
• Represented lender in modification of a $70,500,000 loan secured by twenty-one properties in ten states.
• Represented lender in a $3,000,000 mezzanine loan for an apartment complex in Texas.
• Represented lender in a $7,000,000 mezzanine loan for an office complex in Florida.
• Represented lender in a $1,800,000 mezzanine loan for an apartment complex in North Carolina.
• Represented seller in the disposition of a $22,000,000 apartment complex in Missouri.
• Represented seller in the disposition of a $10,500,000 warehouse/industrial facility in California.
• Represented seller in the disposition of a $7,900,000 office complex in Colorado.
• Represented seller in the disposition of a $98,500,000 apartment complex in California.
• Represented seller in the disposition of a $110,250,000 apartment complex in Washington.
• Represented seller in the disposition of a $14,000,000 apartment complex in Georgia.
• Represented purchaser in the acquisition of a $20,500,000 office building in Houston, Texas.
• Represented purchaser in the acquisition of a $53,000,000 partnership interest in an entity owning apartment complex in Texas.
• Representation of publicly traded insurance company in leasing of regional offices.
• Representation of landlords in anchor leases, big box leases and other retail lease transactions, including restaurant leases.
• Representation of landlords and tenants in industrial, warehouse and office leases.
• Representation of borrowers and lenders in multi-state financing transactions.
• Representation of purchasers and sellers in sale transactions for multi-family residential, retail, industrial and office properties.

• Evolution of Economic Terms in Commercial Leasing, OSBA/CLE Institute Seminar, 2006
• Commercial Leasing, OSBA/Introduction to Real Estate Practice, 2009

• Selected as an Ohio Super Lawyer Rising Star by Ohio Super Lawyer magazine in 2012