Tara A. Scanlon - Lawyer in Washington, DC

Tara A. Scanlon is a partner in the Washington, D.C., officeof Holland Knight where she is deputy practice group leader of theWashington, D.C. and Northern Virginia Real Estate Group, and co-chair of thefirm's National Retail Development and Leasing Team in the Real Estate Section.Ms. Scanlon concentrates her practice on commercial real estate transactionswhich include development matters, sales and acquisitions, as well as retail andoffice leasing. She has extensive experience in retail real estate transactionsrepresenting both institutional and entrepreneurial owners of regional malls,shopping centers and high end street retail projects in connection with variousleasing, finance, operational and transactional matters. Other areas ofexperience include commercial finance involving construction and permanent realestate loans, asset-based lending and equity investments, as well as therestructure of debt and security instruments.

Representative transactions she has handled include:

• Transactional and leasing counsel for the redevelopment of an urban mall into a 600,000 square foot power center
• Transactional Counsel for disposition of portfolio of 14 regional malls over a 3 year period
• Leasing counsel for high end redevelopment of urban streetscape properties in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
• Counsel for Fortune 500 Company in connection with major build to suit lease
• Transactional counsel for Fortune 500 Company in connection with sale of 500,000 square foot office campus
• Transactional counsel for sale of portfolio of shopping centers
• Leasing counsel for high end mixed-use development with over 600,000 square feet of retail space

Ms. Scanlon has been an adjunct professor of Commercial Real Estate Law inthe Allan L. Berman Real Estate Institute at The Johns Hopkins University since2001