About
Provided by Stites & Harbison PLLC
Stites & Harbison's Real Estate attorneys serve some of the nation's largest banks, financial institutions, insurance companies, individual lenders, syndicates and institutional advisors. They handle all types of real estate finance transactions and represent real estate developers, conservation and preservation organizations, lessors, and investors among others. The attorneys routinely represent institutional lenders in making various types commercial loans. They also represent private and public borrows in all types of secured and unsecured syndicated loan transactions, and represent clients in asset acquisitions and dispositions.
The real estate attorneys at the firm strive to understand a clients' businesses to better help them achieve their objectives, and they place great emphasis on devising creative solutions to problems. The attorneys at Stites & Harbison staff each project efficiently, using a team approach to give clients comprehensive counseling. Because they integrate the firm's banking, business services, corporate, private equity, tax, construction, intellectual property, environmental and litigation practices, clients enjoy the results of the team's deep experience.
Chambers Review
Stites & Harbison has a much-admired practice offering skilled representation for developers, with abilities handling site acquisitions, easement matters and zoning issues. Other areas of noted strength include assisting with lease negotiations and property foreclosures. Offers a broad range of transactional experience, including tax credit issues, joint ventures and mezzanine and mortgage financing.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"They have an amazing response time."
"They have an amazing response time."
Notable Practitioners
Gregory Ehrhard has a broad commercial real estate practice which covers leasing, lending, development, zoning and land use issues. He leads the firm's real estate and banking service group.
"He is very responsive and I trust him. I know he's taking care of me and will call me if there's an issue."
"He's the best."
David Saffer is well regarded for his expertise in real estate transactional matters. He represents clients in acquisitions and dispositions as well as handling commercial lending issues.
Lawrence Droege is respected in the market for his skill handling noncontentious real estate matters. He advises on loan transactions related to a variety of projects, including office developments, retail space and multifamily properties.