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Provided by Melanie Clark
Corporate, Real Estate
Melanie Clark is a real estate transactional attorney, routinely advising clients on all aspects of large-scale real estate projects, including acquisition and disposition of land, leasing, financing, and project development. She is a partner in the firm’s Corporate and Real Estate Practices and is based in the Salt Lake City office.
Melanie assists large and small real estate developers in acquiring and developing new projects, managing and leasing existing projects, and reconfiguring obsolete projects. She has worked with developers on a wide variety of real estate endeavors, including data centers, industrial sites, rail and transload terminals, condominium hotels, mixed use subdivisions, and fractional ownership clubs. Her experience includes providing legal counsel from initial land acquisition, financing, and entitlements to construction completion and operation or sale.
Energy & Infrastructure, Hospitality & Leisure, Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables
University of Utah
JD
Utah State University
BS
Representative Experience*
-Represented buyer in acquisition of multiple apartment complexes with 300+ units.
-Represented buyer in negotiating, documenting, and closing on purchase of portfolio with properties located in ten jurisdictions, including performing related due diligence review of properties.
-Represented seller in negotiating and documenting portfolio sale of twelve restaurant properties.
-Represented seller of inactive mining property, including transfer of permits and reclamation obligations.
-Represented buyer in acquiring and obtaining entitlements for 300 acre property to be developed as a data center.
-Real estate counsel for lender for $100M+ financing of greenhouse properties in California, Kentucky, and Texas.
-Real estate counsel for lender in financing 150MW/600MWh battery storage project in Idaho.
-Real estate counsel lender in financing portfolio of 88 solar, fuel cell, and battery storage projects across 21 states.
-Real estate counsel for buyer acquiring portfolio of 30 solar projects with a capacity of 89 MWdc across 7 states.
-Real estate counsel for tax equity investor in 93.5 MWdc development stage solar project located in Kentucky.
-Real estate counsel for tax equity investor in 240 MWac utility scale solar project in Texas.
-Real estate counsel for tax equity investor in 100 MWac battery storage project in California.
-Real estate counsel for tax equity investor in 400 MWac development stage portfolio of solar projects in Ohio and California.
Represented buyer in acquiring and obtaining entitlements for raw land in Arizona, Ohio, North Carolina, and Utah for development of rail and transload facilities.
Represented clients in drafting and negotiating leases for office, retail, and industrial premises.
Represented developers in development of commercial and residential condominium and subdivision projects, including preparing covenants, conditions, restrictions, easements, and HOA documentation.
Represented multiple developers of fractional interest projects, including preparing project and sales documents and registering projects with state real estate departments.
Researched regulatory structure, requirements and penalties in all 50 states for timeshares, exchange companies and short-term vacation products.
Drafted and negotiated easement and encroachment agreements for residential and commercial properties.
Obtained zoning approvals for large retailer.
*Certain of these matters were handled prior to joining Foley.
Provided by Chambers
Provided by Chambers
Melanie Clark is very smart, intelligent and responsive. Her client service is great, and she is always ready to answer the phone, with a quick turnaround time.
I am a huge fan of Melanie Clark.
Melanie Clark is my favorite outside counsel to work with. She is responsive and an expert in her field.
Melanie Clark has an in-depth understanding not only of our business model but also of our financing needs. Her overall industry knowledge is invaluable and helps us create documents that will not cause issues for any future financing partner.
Melanie Clark is very smart, intelligent and responsive. Her client service is great, and she is always ready to answer the phone, with a quick turnaround time.
I am a huge fan of Melanie Clark.
Melanie Clark is my favorite outside counsel to work with. She is responsive and an expert in her field.
Melanie Clark has an in-depth understanding not only of our business model but also of our financing needs. Her overall industry knowledge is invaluable and helps us create documents that will not cause issues for any future financing partner.