Colleen M. Leonard is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Holland & Knight. Ms. Leonard has also spent a number of years practicing in Holland & Knight's San Francisco office. Colleen has extensive experience representing landlords and tenants in the commercial leasing of shopping centers and outparcels, restaurants, high-rise office buildings, mixed-use projects, raw land and industrial/warehouse facilities. She also represents buyers, developers and sellers in the acquisition, development and disposition of commercial properties; lenders and borrowers in connection with the acquisition, construction and permanent financing and refinancing of commercial properties. She has extensive experience in the continued representation of a large national retail financial institution, in the acquisition of shopping center outparcels and inline space, as well as free-standing locations.