Overview
As a transactional attorney, David focuses on assisting real estate owners and developers, banks and other institutional lenders, and business owners in all aspects of complex commercial transactions.
David is experienced in providing legal advice and business guidance to real estate owner and developer clients in all aspects of real estate acquisition, finance, entitlement, development, construction and leasing. David is also a LEED Accredited Professional for the design, construction and operation of green buildings. With more than 25 years of experience representing real estate developer clients, he gets deals done in a direct, diligent and cost-effective manner.
David also represents community, regional, and national banks and other commercial lending institutions across a broad spectrum of lending areas. In addition to traditional real estate secured and asset-based commercial lending programs, he handles specialized construction loans, mezzanine financing, multi-bank credit facilities and loan workouts. He also assists business owners by creating, developing and negotiating complex asset acquisition, finance and leasing transaction structures to help them achieve their financial and business objectives.
In addition to his legal experience, David has broad based, hands-on business and entrepreneurial experience, including U.S. and international business planning and operations as a principal and senior executive in the telecommunications infrastructure industry giving him an understanding of the practical business issues faced by his clients. David is also an Adjunct Professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University where he teaches Secured Finance.
Recognition
Best Lawyers in America® for Commercial Finance Law, 2024
Named among "Top Attorneys," Real Estate, Arlington Magazine, 2019, 2021, 2023
Named to "Legal Elite" (Real Estate/Land Use), Virginia Business, 2018, 2022
Experience
Experience
- Developer’s counsel for acquisition of 225+ acres of land and development and sale of 400+ residential building lots and building pads to national homebuilder.
- Owner’s counsel for sale of multiple self-storage facilities to national REIT for $80,000,000+ purchase price.
- Lender’s counsel for a regional bank and documented, negotiated and closed an $83,000,000 construction loan for state-of-the art data center facility.
- Lender’s counsel for a national bank in a $66,000,000 multi-bank syndicated loan facility with multiple borrowers and secured by real property and tangible and intangible assets located in multiple jurisdictions.
- Lead counsel for local real estate developer in complex commercial real estate transaction involving the sale of a mixed-use facility and leaseback of retail space in Arlington, Virginia.
- Represented regional health and fitness company in connection with a build-to-suit lease transaction for the construction and long-term lease of a 45,000 square foot facility.
- Lender’s counsel for national bank in a $18,000,000 asset-based revolving line of credit facility to a government contracting firm.
- Lead counsel for an international fast-casual food service company in the acquisition of 18 restaurant sites from one of its franchisees.
- Represented community bank in purchase of a participation interest from an international commercial real estate financial institution in a $75,000,000 construction loan to regional real estate developer for a retail facility.
Perspectives
News
Beyond the Law
Beyond the Law
A lifelong resident of Vienna, Virginia, David is married to Joni Hannah, the Director of Tennis at Westwood Country Club in Vienna, and they have two daughters together, Ryan and Jordan. David graduated from James Madison High School, Rollins College, and George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School and is a member of the Board of Directors of Leadership Fairfax.
Services
Education
George Mason University School of Law, J.D.
Rollins College, B.A.
Admissions
- Virginia
