Brian A. Flank provides thoughtful insights, creative solutions to complex issues, and prudent, strategic execution.

EXPERIENCE

A member in both the firm’s Corporate Transactions Department and Real Estate Department, Brian’s legal practice comprises sophisticated corporate and commercial real estate transactions. He represents clients on a range of matters including mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, reorganizations, separations, 1031 exchanges, joint ventures and financing.  He also regularly serves in a corporate counsel capacity, providing advice to clients on a large variety of day-to-day operations. His clients cover a broad range of privately-owned businesses such as shopping center owners, automotive dealerships, billing service providers, multifamily/mixed-use property owners, and serial entrepreneurs.

Before practicing law, Brian worked as a financial consultant with Smith Barney’s Private Client Group in Bethesda, Maryland, and as a purchasing manager for a successful products company in Rockville, Maryland.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

Corporate Transactions

• Represented an automobile dealership in the sale of an Alexandria, Virginia automobile dealership and corresponding real property for what was one of the largest single-point automotive dealership sales (by dollar value) in the DC Metro area
• Represented a medical billing company in its sale of a related medical billing business
• Represented a cosmetics company in its purchase of a branded line of products from an international seller
• Represented one of two principals of a commercial real estate brokerage and property management company in a business separation
• Represented a client in the acquisition of one of the largest sports complexes in the country
• Represented a health care company in its acquisition of two assisted living facilities located in Maryland
• Represented a Maryland cannabis company in connection with structuring, startup and initial investors prior to obtaining vertically integrated cannabis licenses
• Represented a portfolio holding company in structuring, formation and the acquisition and sale of various operating businesses
• Represented a bank in the purchase of a portfolio of mortgage and HELOC loans from another bank
• Represented a sophisticated investor in the acquisition of ownership interests in and consulting arrangement with an energy trading company
• Represented a real estate fund, as Maryland local counsel, in connection with a multi-billion-dollar merger (in which Maryland was the merger jurisdiction)

Real Estate

• Represented a commercial real estate company in the purchase of a nine-shopping center portfolio from a large REIT, comprising properties located in Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania
• Represented a commercial real estate company in the simultaneous refinance of eleven mortgage loans
• Represented a commercial real estate company in its purchase of an office park
• Represented a commercial real estate company in the creation of a blind pool real estate fund and various real estate acquisitions by the fund
• Represented the sponsor of multi-family apartments to structure and document outgoing investor’ separate 1031 exchanges or part-cash out by various parties on the sale of a real property project, as well to accept numerous 1031 investors’ in the corresponding purchase of replacement property
• Represented a real estate company in obtaining preferred equity from an institutional investor in connection with its acquisition of multi-family apartments, including negotiation of joint venture agreement and related documents

NETWORKS & AFFILIATIONS

• Board Member, Community Housing Assistance, Inc. (CHAI), Baltimore, Maryland (2024 – present)
• Co-Chair of Advocate Committee, Jewish Affinity Group, The Gilman School, Baltimore, Maryland (2024 – present)
• Maryland Bar Association (2004 – present)
• New York Bar Association (2016 – present)
• District of Columbia Bar Association (2008 – present)
• Former Advisory Board Member, Higher Achievement Baltimore (2011 – 2013)
• Co-Founder and former Board Member, University of Maryland Alumni Association, Baltimore Chapter (2009 – 2011)
• The Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta

EDUCATION

Brian earned his J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law and a Master of Laws in Taxation (LL.M.) from the University of Baltimore School of Law. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Maryland, earning a degree in economics and an honors certificate from the University Honors Program.

HONORS & AWARDS

• Martindale-Hubbell’s Client Distinction Award (2013 & 2014)
• Maryland Super Lawyers Rising Star (2015)
• Alumni Association Award, University of Maryland School of Law (2004)

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