Jeffrey D. Spann
Partner | Corporate
jeffrey.spann@pierferd.com
+1.215.400.0047 cell
+1.610.228.3124 office
Philadelphia | Princeton
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About
Jeffrey maintains a broad-based commercial real estate practice with a focus on leasing, acquisition, and development-related matters. He is a practical and creative business-minded attorney with a skill for counseling clients on executing their real estate business plans effectively and efficiently. Jeffrey represents clients in a full range of real estate matters, including complex single and multi-property acquisitions and dispositions, retail, real estate secured financing, existing loan refinance and modification, eminent domain, land use approvals, and zoning relief.
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He has extensive commercial leasing experience, representing national and local clients in retail, commercial office, and industrial warehouse lease transactions throughout the United States and counseling clients on lease administration, landlord-tenant disputes, and lease interpretation.
He works extensively with clients’ senior management teams along with internal departments throughout the organizational structure, to manage and expand his clients’ real estate holdings. He has had the opportunity not only to negotiate a wide variety of agreements, but to serve as an advisor, partnering with the company’s decision-makers.
Jeffrey has experience executing national, multi-property portfolio acquisitions as well as negotiating single-site leases and a variety of commercial agreements. In each case, his value-add has been his ability to mitigate or eliminate the client’s risk while facilitating the transaction and aligning legal and business goals.
Practices
Banking and Financial Services
Opinions
Real Estate
Admissions
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Education
William & Mary School of Law, J.D., 2004
William & Mary Law Review, Articles Editor
William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, Staff Member
Benjamin Rush Scholar
University of Virginia, B.A., English and Economics, 1995
Experience
Vintage Law, LLC
Representative Matters
Lead real estate outside counsel for 3,500+ store publicly held national retailer, handling retail and distribution center lease negotiations and multi-property acquisitions. Representative transactions include a dozen asset and equity based portfolio acquisitions involving over 1,000 leases, effectively doubling the size of the client’s leasehold portfolio in a 5-year period.
Represented a national restaurant chain in the negotiation and execution of a sale-leaseback transaction of 20 properties.
Represented the largest privately held student housing developer in the U.S. in the acquisition and leasing of student housing properties, including the development of a form lease and counseling the client on compliance with local law and enforceability issues.
Prepared and negotiated a home office lease for a national convenience store operator.
Represented a private equity fund in the acquisition of a multi-state portfolio of industrial properties.
Represented a national private equity fund’s acquisition of a sporting goods retailer with business operations in ten states and a global brand.
Representation of a private equity fund’s acquisition of an industrial fabrics manufacturer with facilities in three states.
Representation of a national real estate investment firm in the placement of permanent financing in connection with the adaptive reuse of an office building in Nashville, Tennessee.
Representation of a developer in the zoning reclassification of an industrial site in anticipation of a proposed two million square foot, mixed-use development in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Representation of a non-profit organization in connection with the creation of housing for low income families in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.