Rick Tomsick | Thompson Hine LLP

Focus Areas

Examples of Rick’s experience include:

Involved in the due diligence and acquisition of cellphone towers across the country on behalf of a client investor in the telecom industry
Representation of a NYSE-listed REIT in connection with shopping center outparcel acquisitions, restructurings and dispositions
Representation of landlords in negotiation of office, big-box retail and ground leases at regional and super-regional shopping centers across the nation
Representation of landlords in office building leases, including laboratory offices within health-sciences research parks for major universities in Baltimore, Maryland and Cambridge, Massachusetts
Representation of a NYSE-listed REIT in connection with the negotiation of its headquarters’ office lease
Oversaw the legal negotiation aspects of all retail and office leasing for a NYSE-listed REIT
Representation of local churches on leasing and disposition of diocesan church properties

Chairman (2005 – 2007) and member (1999 – 2016) of the planning committee of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan and Pennsylvania Retail Development and Law Symposium
Panel moderator and speaker for a variety of presentations at national and regional professional symposia since 1999, including CREW Network and ICSC presentations discussing terrorism insurance, and real property leasing and development practice and principles
Adjunct professor at Ursuline College (Pepper Pike, Ohio) teaching undergraduate courses in real property law (introduction and intermediate), business and contract law and religious studies (2003 – 2015)
Presentations to the North American Patristics Society annual meetings (Chicago, 2005 – 2015), the International Conference on Patristic Studies (Oxford, England, 2007, 2015), and the Canadian Society of Patristic Studies (2005)