Karla Rogers

Practice Areas

Real Estate Law

Construction Law

Corporate and Finance

Mergers, Acquisitions, Divestitures and Sales

Commercial Lending

Private Equity

Environmental Law

Public/Private Partnership Law

Career

As Vice Chair of Calfee’s Real Estate group, Karla Rogers counsels publicly and privately held clients on all aspects of real estate and commercial finance law. She represents clients in property development, acquisitions, mergers, leasing and dispositions involving real property holdings.

Karla enjoys getting to know her clients and their businesses in order to provide practical and creative solutions to their real estate, commercial, finance and corporate law needs.

She counsels clients in all aspects of real estate acquisitions and divestitures, including structuring transactions, land assemblage, land use, zoning and permitting compliance. Karla works extensively on all real estate components of corporate acquisitions, mergers and divestitures. She counsels clients on purchase and sale agreements title, survey and other real estate matters in connection with individual and multi-site acquisitions and sales.

Karla is experienced in negotiating and drafting commercial, industrial and retail leases on behalf of both landlords and tenants.

She also represents institutional lenders and public and privately held borrowers in connection with structuring, negotiating and drafting real estate financing agreements and facilitating secured financing transactions.

Professional Memberships

Ohio State Bar Association, Member

Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, Member

Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, Volunteer Mentor

Shoes and Clothes For Kids, Former Board Member

Chicago Title Insurance Company Advisory Board, Former Member

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Ohio

Experience

Represented mining company on a 3,000-acre mining lease in West Texas involving lease negotiations, site due diligence and project management.

Represented numerous clients in connection with sale/leaseback transactions involving institutional investor purchasers/landlords and properties located throughout the U.S.

Represented joint venture for the purchase of former automotive plants for large-scale industrial redevelopments in Northeast Ohio.

Represented joint venture in connection with entering into a development agreement with a local Ohio municipality and community improvement district for the remediation and development of a former governmental facility to a 100-acre mixed-use development.

Represented joint venture in connection with the sale of property to a Fortune 500 company for the development of its research and development worldwide headquarters.

Represented joint venture in connection with the acquisition and redevelopment of lakefront property into a proposed marina, hotel and residential development.

Represents mining company in connection with the acquisition and divestiture of multiple real estate holdings, mineral leases, transloading leases and day-to-day real estate operations throughout the U.S and Canada.

Represents several Northeast Ohio private equity funds in connection with multiple corporate acquisitions, divestitures and leasing involving real estate holdings throughout the U.S.

Represents public manufacturer and marketer of specialty chemicals, coatings and sealants in the acquisition and leasing of its real property holdings throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Represented privately held company in connection with assemblage, acquisition and leasing of real properties in Northeast Ohio for a mixed-use student housing and retail project.

Represented joint venture involved in the acquisition, financing and development of a historic Cleveland downtown mixed-use apartment project.

Represented Northeast Ohio joint venture involved with the acquisition of property for large-scale mixed use redevelopment project.

Represented joint venture involved in the acquisition, financing and development of a large-scale, mixed-use development (retail, office, hotel and apartment) in Northeast Ohio.

Represented public food and hospitality company in its divestiture of properties throughout the U.S.

Education