Patricia J. Hartman

Patti has been practicing commercial real estate and business law for nearly 40 years.

Patti represents clients in the health care, senior care, engineering, accounting, architecture, agriculture, insurance and consulting industries with their real estate, general business and commercial law matters.

In the real estate arena, she represents health care systems, senior care communities, landowners, developers, investors, lenders, landlords and tenants. She has extensive experience in negotiating and documenting complex real estate transactions, including options, dispositions, acquisitions and exchanges; development projects, including development agreements; city and/or county required agreements; utility, access, storm drain, sewer, parking, construction, and other easements (temporary and/or permanent); memoranda of rights; shared maintenance agreements; operating agreements; and licenses; commercial leases, including build-to-suit leases, for medical, general office and retail space; ground leases; tenancy-in-common agreements; mortgage and trust deed workouts; syndications; and joint ventures. Patti also has significant experience reviewing, analyzing and addressing title issues; representing clients in real estate and other secured financing transactions, including negotiating loan documents and rendering opinions; and reviewing and providing analyses regarding subordination and nondisturbance agreements and estoppel certificates.

Patti's general business and commercial law expertise includes business entity formations, dissolutions and compliance matters, including drafting various operational agreements and buy-sell and other transfer restriction agreements; mergers and stock and asset acquisitions and dispositions, including the preparation of confidentiality and noncompetition agreements; financing transactions, including negotiating and documenting commercial loans (secured and unsecured) and loan modifications and workouts and preparing related enforceability opinion letters; extensive contract negotiating and drafting, including employment agreements, stock options and related employment incentive agreements; securities matters; and general business and corporate planning and counseling.