Dan Engle is Co-chair of the firm's Real Estate Practice Group and focuses his real estate practice on representing developers, institutional owners and corporate users of commercial and industrial real estate throughout the United States. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America® (Copyright 2011 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.), Chambers USA as Tier 1 real estate counsel and in the 2009 Super Lawyers® edition of national real estate lawyers. In 2009 the firm's real estate practice group participated in transactions totalling in excess of $4B, including 38 transactions in excess of $15MM. The firm's real estate group was ranked 1st in transaction volume for 2009 in the Midwest Real Estate News 2010 Best of the Best survey.
Since 2006, Dan has participated as lead counsel in transactions valued in excess of $2.5B, primarily on behalf of developers and institutional owners. Select recent transactions have included:
• Represented AT&T Inc. in relocation of world headquarters to
Dallas, Texas
• $600MM in various office tower sale/leaseback transactions
• $48MM financing and $60MM acquisition of multi-property
industrial portfolio
• Sale/leaseback and redevelopment of private military
manufacturing facility
• LEED Sustainable Development and Leasing transactions
• Condominium conversion of more than 1,500 units in various
locations
• Site development for numerous ethanol and biodiesel facilities
• Acquisition and redevelopment of three former auto
manufacturing facilities
• Purchase/sale transactions of over 2,000 apartment units
• Reverse and forward 1031 tax deferred transactions
• Hotel/motel development, purchase and disposition
• Transactions involving environmentally challenged
industrial sites and redevelopment and cleanup of same for reuse
• Development with public incentives of large mixed use
“life style” center projects
Dan's broad and extensive experience as a transactional attorney over the past 25 years has earned him the respect of his peers and clients alike in representing clients in transactions involving all types of properties and businesses, as well as innumerable borrower financing transactions.