Christopher J Thanner

Practice Areas

Chris’s practice covers many aspects of commercial real estate law, including big-box and shopping center retail, industrial, office and multifamily development, construction contracts, commercial lending and leasing, land use, and development law. He guides sellers, purchasers, landlords and tenants through real estate acquisitions, dispositions and leasing transactions. He also counsels clients on negotiating the maze of governmental regulations affecting development in Florida, including concurrency, platting and permitting issues. In the banking and finance area, Chris represents institutional lenders and corporate borrowers in real estate and other asset-based financing transactions and frequently serves as local counsel on state and national financing matters.

Additionally, Chris works with special asset managers of lending institutions and special servicers of Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities loans on commercial loan workouts and forbearance agreements, foreclosures of real and personal property, guaranty enforcement actions, deeds in lieu of foreclosure, and state court receivership proceedings. He has also represented lenders in the workout and foreclosure of incomplete construction and development projects.

And, as a member of the firm’s transportation industry team, Chris regularly assists railroads in the acquisition, disposition, leasing and development of railroad right of way and related rail and intermodal facilities.