Senior Commercial Real Estate Attorney

BLAKE L. DANIELS

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Commercial Real Estate Transactions Leasing Loan Modifications & Workouts Bankruptcy & Creditor's Rights Commercial Litigation Document Review Attorney & Staff Management Accomplished attorney with a focus on commercial real estate, including acquisition, disposition, leasing, development and finance transactions, as well as experience in bankruptcy and creditor's rights and a prior background in commercial litigation, to include document review projects (Concordance and Relativity platforms). Provides expert legal counsel on a broad range of real estate matters. Scope of experience includes representing private equity firms, real estate developers and investors, and commercial landlords and tenants, as well as REITs, commercial banks, credit unions, insurance companies and other lenders in a wide range of real estate and loan related matters and projects, having negotiated and closed transactions with a combined contract value well in excess of $1 billion. Resourceful counsel with a demonstrated track record of finding solutions that assist clients to complete transactions, limit exposure, minimize risk and meet business objectives. Seeking opportunities for a permanent, senior-level position with a firm offering a large business platform on a national or regional level and individual independence in managing client relations and transaction negotiations.

EXPERIENCE

SELZER GURVITCH RABIN WERTHEIMER & POLOTT, P.C. BETHESDA, MD Special Counsel – Commercial Real Estate 2022 –2024

§ Provided high-level representation for the full range of real estate transactions and asset types, including office, industrial/warehouse, hospitality, multi-family, and retail to developers, institutional investors, lenders and borrowers, landlords and tenants, private.

§ Negotiated and drafted deal documents for purchasers and sellers, landlords and tenants, and borrowers and lenders, in commercial real estate transactions, including but not limited to, joint venture formation, purchase and sale documents, loan documents, loan modifications and/or workouts, commercial leases, legal opinion letters, easements, access agreements, SNDA’s and estoppels.

§ Represented local and regional developers in public-private partnership developments in the DC metropolitan area, to include negotiation of pre-development agreements, development agreement, land disposition agreements, long-term ground leases and other or ancillary documents with the applicable governmental authority.

§ In drafting and negotiating leases and conducting due diligence on account thereof, represented a wide variety of landlord entities, to include large, institutional owners and management companies as well as local, individual owners, and a large range of tenants, to include a multitude of both Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies and major, national non-profit organizations and tenants.

§ Represented one of the nation’s largest federal credit unions in negotiating loan terms and drafting loan documents for loans secured by real estate or large-scale equipment.

§ Supervised junior-level associate attorneys for full scope of traditional commercial real estate due diligence, to include review and analysis of title and survey, zoning, environmental and property condition assessments. DLA PIPER LLP (US) WASHINGTON, D.C.

Contract Attorney – Commercial Real Estate 2021 – 2022

§ Provided senior-level representation for the full range of real estate transactions and asset types, to developers, institutional investors, lenders and borrowers, landlords and tenants, private equity and governmental entities (to include one of the world’s largest and well-financed sovereign wealth real estate investment authority).

§ Represented world’s largest home improvement retailer in supply chain warehouse leasing throughout the United States, negotiating leases in excess of 10 million square feet of warehouse space in a three-month period.

§ Managed thirty local counsel in twenty jurisdictions for the negotiation and delivery of enforceability opinions on behalf of the borrower client to its lender in connection with a $600 million refinance facility secured by a portfolio of approximately 150 retail leases nationwide.

§ Supervised junior-level associate attorneys for full scope of traditional commercial real estate due diligence.

§ Assisted litigation group with document review projects when needed (Concordance and Relativity). BLAKE L. DANIELS

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MILES & STOCKBRIDGE P.C. WASHINGTON, D.C.

Contract Attorney – Commercial Real Estate 2020 – 2021

§ Provided high-level representation for all manner of real estate transactions and asset types.

§ Represented the nation’s 14th largest public school district in the drafting and negotiation a full variety of real estate-related agreements and documents, to include purchase and sale agreements, ground leases, co- development agreements, easements and access agreements.

§ Represented a large solar power provider in negotiating long-term ground lease for the company to develop and maintain solar power farms in Maryland and Pennsylvania.

§ Counseled clients on the acquisition and disposition of properties, structuring and financing of projects, ground leasing and related due diligence, development agreements, easements and covenants, construction contracts, architect contracts and related project documents.

§ Assisted litigation group with document review projects when needed (Concordance and Relativity). LINOWES AND BLOCHER LLP BETHESDA, MD

Associate 2019 – 2020

Prior to its closure, Linowes and Blocher was one of the Washington region’s leading full-service real estate and business law firms that began servicing clients in 1956.

§ Represented purchasers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, developers, REITS, and landlord and tenants in the full spectrum of real estate transactions, to include purchase and sale, development, financing, joint ventures, and leasing which such transactions included, without limitation, the following asset classes: hotels, office buildings, industrial warehouses, multifamily projects, residential and commercial condominium projects and shopping centers.

§ Negotiate and draft purchase and sale documents, development agreements, easements and access agreements, loan documents, loan modifications and/or workouts, commercial leases, legal opinion letters and entity documents.

POLSINELLI, PC WASHINGTON, DC

Associate 2017 –2019

§ Focused on real estate matters, representing private equity firms, developers, commercial landlords and tenants, national commercial lenders, special servicers, REITs, and national insurance companies.

§ Negotiated and drafted deal documents for purchasers and sellers, landlords and tenants, and borrowers and lenders, in commercial real estate transactions, including but not limited to, joint venture formation, purchase and sale documents, loan documents, loan modifications and/or workouts, commercial leases, legal opinion letters and entity documents, for transactions spanning all asset classes.

§ Acted as lead outside counsel for all leasing matters (new lease negotiations, subsequent extensions and amendments/modifications, estoppels and SNDAs) for multiple lines of business for a Fortune 200 corporation, working directly with the corporation’s assistant general counsel in charge of said lines of business.

§ Led team of associates for launch of a new lease product and subsequent lease negotiations for the one of the largest commercial office tenants in the world which resulted in the client leasing in excess of 5 million square feet of office space under such new lease product line.

§ Advised clients in connection with traditional real estate transactions, including the acquisition, disposition and leasing of properties, providing the due diligence, conducting the review and solving issues related to title and survey, and spotting issues pertaining to environmental, zoning and other matters.

§ Assisted litigation group with document review projects when needed (Concordance and Relativity). BLAKE L. DANIELS

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GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP WASHINGTON, DC

Contract Attorney – Real Estate 2015 –2017

§ Focused on real estate matters, representing private equity firms, developers, commercial landlords and tenants, national commercial lenders, special servicers, REITs, and national insurance companies.

§ Negotiated and drafted deal documents for both purchasers and sellers, and borrowers and lenders, in commercial real estate transactions, including but not limited to, joint venture formation, purchase and sale documents, loan documents, loan modifications and/or workouts, commercial leases, legal opinion letters and entity documents, which such transactions included, without limitation, the following asset classes: hotels, office buildings, multifamily projects, residential and commercial condominium projects and shopping centers.

§ Advised clients in connection with traditional real estate transactions, including the acquisition, disposition and leasing of properties, providing the due diligence, conducting the review and solving issues Assist litigation group with document review projects when needed (Concordance and Relativity).

§ related to title and survey.

§ Handled non-judicial foreclosures on behalf of commercial lenders.

§ Assisted litigation group with document review projects when needed (Concordance and Relativity). LEVINE, DANIELS & ALLNUTT, PLLC ARLINGTON, VA

Partner 2012 -- 2015

Prior to its closure, Levine, Daniels & Allnutt was a regional law firm specializing in representing national, regional, and community banks, national broker-dealers, and regional and local small businesses in real estate, finance, bankruptcy and litigation matters.

§ Served as a non-equity partner specializing in real estate lending, commercial litigation and business bankruptcy matters, supervising and training attorneys and building a clientele within the D.C. metropolitan area.

§ Negotiated and drafted loan documents for regional and community bank clients and supervised all aspects of loan negotiation and closing on behalf of the same, including title, survey and all due diligence.

§ Prepared and negotiated loan modifications and/or workouts for regional and community bank clients involving both residential and commercial loans.

§ Represented lenders in bankruptcy cases brought under Chapters 7, 11 and 13 of the United States Bankruptcy Code, involving both residential and commercial borrowers, to include representing such lender clients in initiating and litigating adversary proceedings in such bankruptcy cases when necessary.

§ Handled non-judicial foreclosures on behalf of lenders regarding both residential and commercial loans.

§ Conducted all phases of the litigation process in Virginia and District of Columbia courts in a wide range of commercial litigation matters that include breach of contract, fraud, conversion, defamation, tortious interference with business relationships and breach of restrictive covenants in employment agreements.

§ Acted as the sole attorney responsible for Financial Industry Regulatory Association (FINRA) arbitrations for a national broker-dealer in claims against the broker-dealer’s former financial analysts, and manage all employment- related counterclaims brought by the former financial analysts against the broker-dealer.

§ Handled all aspects of FINRA cases, from initial case assessment and drafting/filing statement of claim, through trying the case in binding FINRA arbitration before a Panel of either one or three FINRA arbitrators. KATTEN MUCHIN ROSENMAN, LLP Washington, D.C.

Associate 2007 – 2012

§ Focused on real estate matters, representing private equity firms, developers, commercial landlords and tenants, national commercial lenders, REITs, and national insurance companies.

§ Negotiated and drafted deal documents for both purchasers and sellers, and borrowers and lenders, in commercial real estate transactions, including but not limited to, joint venture formation, purchase and sale documents, loan documents, loan modifications and/or workouts, commercial leases, legal opinion letters and entity documents, which such transactions included, without limitation, the following asset classes: hotels, office buildings, multifamily projects, residential and commercial condominium projects and shopping centers.

§ Assisted litigation group with document review projects when needed (Concordance and Relativity). BLAKE L. DANIELS

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FIORE & LEVINE, PLLC Arlington, Virginia.

Associate 2005 –2007

§ Represented national, regional and community banks, a national broker-dealer, as well as small and medium-sized businesses in a wide variety of commercial litigation matters.

§ Handled all discovery-related tasks, including but not limited to, drafting discovery requests, objections and responses and determining document production.

§ Drafted and argued demurrers, motions to dismiss, discovery motions and motions for summary judgment.

§ Worked on collection matters, including bank account and wage garnishments and debtor’s interrogatories. EDUCATION

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW Washington, D.C. J.D., cum laude 2005

§ G.P.A.: 3.56

§ Washington College of Law Business Law Brief, Member (Inaugural Publishing Year) AMERICAN UNIVERSITY Washington, D.C.

B.A., cum laude, International Studies with University Honors; B.A., cum laude, Political Science 2002

§ G.P.A.: 3.65

§ Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, Member

§ The Eagle, Sport Reporter

§ University Senate, Student Confederation Representative to Faculty Senate BAR ASSOCIATIONS

§ Arlington County Bar Association (2012-Present)

§ Alexandria Bar Association (2014-Present)

BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS

§ Virginia (2005)

§ District of Columbia (2008)

§ United States District Court, Eastern District of Virginia (2006)

§ United States Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Virginia (2006) P UBLICATIONS

§ Co-author, Polsinelli Client Alert, “Yes Virginia, Leases for More than 5 Years Really do Need to be in the Form of a Deed – Virginia Supreme Court Allows Early Termination of Lease not in Compliance with Statute of Conveyances” (August 2018)

§ Co-author, Polsinelli Client Alert, “Virginia General Assembly Reverses Virginia Supreme Court on Requirement that Leases of more than Five Years be in the Form of a Deed” (March 2019)

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