Chad Tiedemann represents a number of the leading real estate development firms in Washington, D.C. He has extensive experience representing real estate investors including opportunity funds, investment banking firms, insurance companies, investment advisors, foreign investors, syndicators and pension funds in connection with their real estate investments throughout the United States. He also represents banks and other lenders. These engagements have included every property type and size, from a national portfolio of 14 regional shopping malls and programmatic investment relationships for office portfolios to "one-off" hotel transactions.
Mr. Tiedemann has nearly 30 years of commercial real estate venture formation, finance, development and leasing experience. The complex transactions that Mr. Tiedemann handles include acquisitions, sales, office and retail leasing, limited liability company and partnership formations, construction, permanent and mezzanine loans, ground leases, recapitalizations and sale-leasebacks. He also has extensive experience with workouts and foreclosures through multiple economic cycles.
Interviews with Mr. Tiedemann have been featured in The Washington Post and in Real Estate Weekly's "Exclusive Interviews with the Leaders on the Real Estate Scene" from Bisnow on Business. Mr. Tiedemann is a frequent speaker on real estate industry issues, including current trends in the capital markets, as well as the challenges and opportunities currently facing the industry.
Mr. Tiedemann is the firm's past National Real Estate Section leader and was a member of the Practice Management Committee. He is currently a member of the firm's Directors Committee. Mr. Tiedemann is actively involved in and underwrites a college scholarship annually, as a part of the Holland & Knight Foundation's Holocaust Remembrance Project, a national high school contest that attracts more than 7,000 essays each year. He also performs pro bono work for the homeless through The Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless.