Real Estate Customer Service
Resume:
Marc D. Rothenberg
University Heights, Ohio 44122
Cell: 216-***-****
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CAREER SUMMARY
Industrious Real Estate and Contract Attorney licensed in the State of Ohio with experience in all types of Lease Negotiations, Landlord/Tenant relationships, and miscellaneous business contracts. Strong business orientation with excellent communication and collaboration skills. Team player and quick learner focused on achieving business objectives. Demonstrated experience and accomplishments in:
• Lease Agreements • Business Strategy
• Real Estate Negotiations • Policy Development
• Outside Counsel Management • Acquisitions
• Dispute Resolution • Internal Audit
• Litigation Management • Contract Review
WORK HISTORY
Marc Rothenberg, Esquire, University Heights, Ohio
Sole Practitioner (November 2008 to Present)
• Provide and conduct legal services to multiple organizations including landlords and tenants.
• Draft and negotiate various contracts including leases, modifications and amendments for numerous companies.
Simon Property Group, Indianapolis, Indiana
Senior Staff Attorney (July 2007 to November 2008)
Provided legal services to Real Estate Leasing.
• Drafted and negotiated in excess of one hundred leases.
• Responsible for the leasing of eleven shopping centers around the country.
• Actively worked on 80-plus leases at the same time.
Marc Rothenberg, Esquire, Solon, Ohio
Sole Practitioner (2003 to 2007)
• Provided and conducted legal services to multiple organizations including landlords and tenants.
• Drafted and negotiated leases, modifications and amendments for various companies.
• Clients included Jo-Ann Fabrics, J.J. Gumberg Company, McGill Properties and Chase Properties.
Jo-Ann Stores, Inc., Hudson, Ohio
$1.7 Billion leading specialty fabric and craft retailer operating 950 stores nationwide under the name Jo-Ann Fabrics.
Senior Corporate Attorney (1993 to 2003)
Provided legal services to Real Estate Leasing, Real Estate Accounting, Internal Audit, Loss Prevention, Merchandising, Tax, Corporate Headquarters and managed outside legal firms.
• Directly involved with the company’s growth from 593 stores in 39 states occupying 2 million square feet and $210 million in sales, to 950 stores in 49 states occupying 16 million square feet and $1.7 billion in sales.
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• Involved in major repositioning of company retail stores from malls to strip shopping centers and from small strip stores to superstores.
• Conducted real estate due diligence for 2 major acquisitions: Cloth World, a $224 million, 343-store organization; and House of Fabrics, a $97 million, 261-store organization, making Jo-Ann the nation’s leading specialty retailer.
• Drafted and negotiated various contracts including but not limited to lease documents, lease amendments, lease terminations, assignment and assumption agreements, subleases, together with miscellaneous business contracts.
• Negotiated early terminations of leases, providing flexibility at no additional expense to Jo-Ann.
• Revised and updated Standard Lease Agreement, conforming to changing laws and regulations and emerging issues.
• Resolved 90%+ of litigation matters well in advance of trial.
• Created a standard Subordination, Non-Disturbance and Attornment Agreement, protecting company rights under shopping center leases.
• Established a standard Estoppel Agreement, improving turnaround time and consistency.
• Educated business representatives on legal aspects and ramifications, improving negotiations and turnaround time for lease completion.
• Worked with construction department modifying specifications contained in construction drawings, improving consistency between the specifications and lease documentation.
• Oversaw negotiations with subtenants, such as sewing machine dealers, that generated millions of dollars of income.
• Responsible for Real Estate accounting department. Established a procedure to review lease documents before paying all invoices resulting in a $750,000 annual savings.
• Worked with Internal Audit in review of all 950 store leases.
• Identified billing errors from landlords and recouped monies due to company.
• Resolved disputes regarding lease language preventing litigation.
• Established follow-up process for recoupment of construction allowances generating millions of dollars of revenue.
• Hired and trained paralegals during company growth.
• Handled miscellaneous legal functions such as contract review for audit, Information Technology, Loss Prevention, Customer Service and Advertising.
• Decreased outside legal expenses by negotiating flat fee agreements for real estate matters.
• Transferred work in house eliminating $100,000+ of legal fees annually.
Real Estate Attorney (1983 to 1993)
Responsible for shopping center lease agreements.
EDUCATION
JD, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio, 1981
BA, Political Science, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1978
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Metropolitan Bar Association
VOLUNTEER WORK
Alzheimer’s Association
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