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Colin Smith's practice focuses primarily on commercial real estate transactions and real estate-related contracts. He has substantial experience with a wide variety of commercial real estate matters, with an emphasis on the acquisition, sale and financing of office buildings, and the drafting and negotiation of office lease agreements. Additionally, as a general counsel to a parking management company, he has acquired specific expertise with the leasing and operation of parking facilities.
His clients include landlords and developers, property management and leasing companies, general contractors, parking management companies, construction managers, and commercial mortgage brokers, as well as varied private and governmental entities that own and lease real property.
Honors
- Best Lawyers in America, Real Estate Law Category - 2010, 2011
- The Legal 500 United States (Real Estate and Construction) - 2011
Memberships and Affiliations
- Greater Washington Commercial Association of Realtors
- National Association of Industrial and Office Properties
- National Parking Association
- Real Estate Club of Washington, D.C.
- Past President
Publications and Presentations
- Author: "Lease Default Considerations," Commercial Broker Quarterly, Summer 2002.
- Speaker: "Strategic Planning And The Commercial Lease In Virginia," 2001-2002.
- Speaker: "Select Leasing Issues -- Including Subordination, Non-Disturbance, and Attornment Agreements," July 2002.
- Speaker: Strategic Planning And The Commercial Lease In Virginia, 2001-2002.
- Co-Author: "Subleases -- A Practical Perspective," Commercial Broker Quarterly, Fall 2001.
- Speaker: "Bridge-the-Gap," seminar sponsored by Virginia CLE, February 2001.
- Co-Author: "Lease Negotiation Pointers for Office Tenants," From the Ground Up, Summer 2000.
- Co-Leader: Series of seminars with brokers on "Commercial Office Lease Issues," sponsored by Julien J. Studley, Inc.
- Speaker: "Commercial Real Estate Leases," sponsored by the George Washington University Real Estate Apprenticeship Program.
- Speaker: "Tax Assessment of Newly Constructed and Renovated Commercial Office Buildings," monthly regional broker meetings sponsored by Grubb & Ellis of Metropolitan Washington, DC.
- Speaker: "Property Damage Lease Issues," Risk Management Seminar sponsored by the CIMA Companies.
