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Mitchell S. Padover

Partner

Mitch focuses his practice on commercial real estate transactions.

Mitch represents REITs, financial institutions, real estate investors, developers and Fortune 100 corporations in all types of commercial real estate transactions throughout the country. His experience includes sales and acquisitions, sale-leaseback transactions, construction and permanent mortgage loan transactions, loan workouts, restructurings and assumptions, leases, property management agreements, CC&Rs, and easements. His transactions have involved warehouses, distribution centers and other industrial properties, manufacturing facilities, office buildings, shopping centers, department stores and other retail establishments, restaurants, motorcycle and powersports dealerships, auto part and service centers, convenience stores and gas stations, fitness centers, apartment buildings, golf courses and hotels and resorts. Prior to joining Kutak Rock in 1996, Mitch spent over eight years practicing with Proskauer Rose in New York City.

 

With Mitch's broad experience, responsiveness and attention to detail, he has enabled clients to successfully effectuate complex real estate transactions for almost 40 years.

 

 

 

  • Counsel to regional real estate developer/investor on approximately 25 construction and permanent mortgage loan transactions with 15 different institutional lenders totaling in excess of $700 million.
  • Counsel to regional real estate developer/investor on sales and acquisitions of land for development and leased industrial, office and other commercial properties in the southwest portion of the United States.
  • Counsel to national REIT on all real estate aspects of a $774 million ABS financing, covering 170 properties throughout the United States, and subsequent property additions, substitutions and releases for this portfolio.
  • Counsel to regional real estate developer/investor on acquisition of public golf course in Phoenix, Arizona and related management agreement.
  • Counsel to several multibillion-dollar REITs on numerous sale-leaseback transactions involving casual dining restaurants, furniture stores, dollar stores, sporting goods stores, pharmacy stores, convenience stores and gas stations, auto part and service centers, car washes, wholesale clubs, fitness centers, office buildings, nurseries, distribution centers and other industrial and manufacturing facilities, and related mortgage financings.
  • Counsel to multibillion-dollar REIT on the acquisition of over 25 different shopping centers located throughout the country for an aggregate purchase price in excess of $1 billion, and related mortgage financings and subsequent leasing activity.
  • Counsel to multibillion-dollar REIT on various dispositions of casual dining restaurants, pharmacies and other retail establishments, office buildings, distribution centers and government buildings.
  • Counsel to multibillion-dollar REIT on a $170 million sale-leaseback transaction involving an office complex for the largest for-profit university in the country, and related mortgage financing.
  • Counsel to multibillion-dollar REIT on a $200 million sale-leaseback transaction involving a portfolio of fishing, hunting, boating and outdoor sporting goods stores.
 

  • The Best Lawyers in America®, Commercial Transactions/UCC Law, 2023-2027; Real Estate Law, 2026-2027