Kenneth A. Kecskes is a Partner in Holland & Knight's Real Estate Practice Group in San Francisco. His practice encompasses a wide variety of complex real estate projects including master planned and mixed use communities; hotels and resorts; corporate campuses; and a major league ballpark. His experience includes acquisitions and dispositions, project development documentation, construction contracts, developer/equity participant venture formation, and analysis of land use entitlements.
Mr. Kecskes has developed a strategic understanding of the development of large master planned, mixed use communities. He has assisted the developers of such communities along the full life cycle of their development from initial acquisition, land use entitlement, and construction to the sale of lands to merchant home builders and retail and commercial developers. He has implemented programs involving the public and private financing and construction of infrastructure, including roads, potable and reclaimed water systems and other utilities. He has negotiated the financing and provision of schools and affordable housing. Mr. Kecskes has implemented telecommunications and technology co-marketing arrangements and helped to manage the valuable trademarks and good will created by developers of master planned communities. He has assisted clients in the construction and operation of community amenities (such as golf courses, recreation centers, and private parks). Finally, Mr. Kecskes has assisted clients in structuring entities and agreements to manage construction risks and defect claims, including through traditional insurance models, owner controlled insurance programs (OCIPs) and various other self-insurance programs.
Mr. Kecskes has drafted and reviewed commercial and industrial leases on behalf of biotechnology and software companies, dot-coms, retailers and landlords. In addition, he has advised publicly traded and private companies on the real estate issues involved with mergers, acquisitions and spin-offs.