WILLIAM L. LOVELL | Associate

Practice Areas

Commercial Real Estate; Construction & Sustainable Development; Investment & Finance

Summary

Mr. Lovell works extensively with developers and national and regional retailers in retail lease transactions throughout the United States. Mr. Lovell also assists various commercial real estate clients in acquisitions, dispositions and the development of commercial properties, including the drafting and negotiating of purchase and sale agreements, ground leases, licensing agreements, and reciprocal easement and operations agreements. In addition, Mr. Lovell negotiates construction contracts in connection with all types of commercial property on behalf of both general contractors and owners.

Education

• The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, J. D. cum laude (2007)
• The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business, M.B.A (2007)
• Vanderbilt University, B.A. in Economics and European History (2001)

Publications

• Note: The Kelo Blowback: How the Newly-Enacted Eminent Domain Statutes and Past Blight Statutes Are a Maginot Line-Defense Mechanism for All Non-Affluent and Minority Property Owners, 68 Ohio St. L. J. 609 (2007)
• Business Editor of the Ohio State Law Journal 2006-2007

Memberships

• State Bar of Georgia
• ICSC

Representative Experience

• Assisted in the sale of landscaping supply stores for several locations.
• Negotiated leases for retail stores located in numerous shopping centers owned by such shopping center developers as Thomas Enterprises, Inc. and Sembler Inc.

Specific Deals

• Represented Cousins Properties Incorporated in its purchase and development of real property in Coweta County, GA for the purposes of the creation of its lakeside community known as “Blalock Lakes”