Greg is a strategic advisor in the firm's Real Estate & Development Service Line with extensive experience in representing developers, large corporations, lenders, publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT), and multistate real estate, financing, and joint venture transactions. Clients draw on his more than four decades of experience counseling clients in connection with their real estate portfolios, including property management, acquisition, disposition, and development.
Greg regularly represents Fortune 500 companies in complex transactions and has substantial experience in the:
- Formation of limited liability companies and limited partnerships
- Commercial leasing and loan workouts
- Planned unit developments
Education
J.D., Georgetown University, 1973
A.B., Miami University, 1970
Professional Associations
- Toledo Bar Association
- Ohio Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Kidney Foundation of Northwest Ohio, Board of Trustees, past President
- Waite Brand Foundation, Trustee
- Old Trinity Foundation, Trustee
- Trinity Episcopal Church, Toledo, Ohio, Finance Chairman and Endowment Trust Officer, past Senior Warden of Vestry
Honors
- Best Lawyers in America, 1999 – 2024
- Best Lawyers “Toledo Real Estate Law Lawyer of the Year,” 2015, 2020, 2024
- Ohio Super Lawyer by Ohio Super Lawyers magazine, 2004 – 2005, 2007 – 2013
- Toledo Business Journal, “Who’s Who in Toledo Area Law”
- AV® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
Representative Matters
- Represented Fortune 500 company in the acquisition, development, and leasing of a 300,000 square foot manufacturing facility
- Represented publicly traded REIT in the acquisition of two medical office building portfolios of approximately 870,500 rentable square feet
- Represented university in its financing arrangements with national commercial bank involving master trust indenture and master lease of facilities
- Represented Fortune 500 company in the post- bankruptcy ownership and management restructuring of its owned and leased real estate assets
- Represented national commercial bank in its real estate secured revolving credit facilities financing with Fortune 500 company borrower