Vernon Lynch Joins Holland & Knight’s Real Estate Team
October 13, 2004
Vernon Sylvester Lynch - Washington
Lynch brings more than 26 years of experience in commercial
real estate transactions
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The largest group of real estate lawyers in the United
States adds another distinguished attorney to its nationally regarded team of
more than 240 lawyers and professionals. Vernon S. Lynch III joins the firm as a
partner practicing in the area of commercial real estate transactions in the
Holland & Knight’s Washington, D.C., office, ranked earlier this year as the
leading real estate practice in the D.C. market by Chambers USA – America’s
Leading Business Lawyers.
Over the past 26 years, Lynch has focused his practice in a broad range of
commercial real estate transactions with emphasis on real estate development,
financing and leasing (especially in the areas of retail leasing),
acquisitions/dispositions. His clients include national, regional and local
developers; owners and landlords of shopping centers, regional malls and
mixed-use projects; major and anchor retail tenants; and sellers and purchasers
of retail store operations, shopping centers and office buildings.
“Holland & Knight has assembled a preeminent national real estate team to
serve our clients’ diverse and increasingly complex needs in the areas of real
estate development and finance as well as in connection with the structuring,
negotiating, managing and closing basic and complex real estate transactions,”
said David Kahn, practice group leader of the firm’s Mid-Atlantic offices.
“Vernon is an outstanding lawyer with an enviable reputation as one of the
region’s most experienced and talented practitioners. We’re very excited that he
has chosen to join us.”
Lynch currently is Special Real Estate Counsel to the Office of the Attorney
General of Maryland and the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System in
connection with the Pension System’s real estate investment program, and has
represented the Pension System in the acquisition and leasing of more than a
dozen shopping centers and office buildings totaling approximately 3.3 million
square feet of space and the disposition of several of those assets. Prior to
joining Holland & Knight, Lynch was a partner with Lynch & Nelson, LLC, in
Baltimore and Columbia, Maryland. He is admitted to practice in Maryland and
District of Columbia, and is a member of the Maryland and Washington, D.C., Bar
Associations. He earned his bachelor’s degree at Morgan State University in
1975, and received his J.D. from University of Pennsylvania in 1978.
Contact: Katherine Diggs, 202-419-2429