Biography
Greg is the Chair of the firm’s Corporate Department. A trusted transactional corporate and real estate attorney, he has decades of experience representing businesses, investors, and developers in a range of transactions and projects. Greg routinely handles the leasing of commercial property, representing both landlords and tenants, and counsels buyers and sellers in all phases of the purchase, sale, and development of commercial real estate. He has led efforts on real estate-related projects for national, regional, and local retailers and developers for projects, including warehouse and industrial facilities, office buildings, hotels, shopping centers and malls, mixed-use developments, and corporate headquarters.
In addition to representing a wide range of clients, Greg’s experience includes serving as lead outside real estate counsel for a Fortune 50 consumer products company, managing the company’s real estate transactions within the U.S. and Canada. He handled the company’s acquisition of more than 450 acres of real estate for a more than $500,000,000 manufacturing facility, a project publicized as the largest economic development project in the history of the locale state. Greg also represented the company’s leasing transaction for the construction and operation of a biomass power generation facility to supply renewable energy and steam, a project valued at more than $250,000,000. In addition to managing all the company’s office, warehouse, industrial, and retail leasing throughout the U.S. and Canada, Greg was also the lead attorney on its large-scale, nationwide build-to-suit lease projects aimed at furthering the company’s initiative to consolidate its distribution networks and facilities.
Greg has deep experience serving a wide-range of business sector clients, including serving as lead outside real estate counsel to one of the largest banks in the United States, a national quick-service restaurant chain, an international water treatment and waste management company, and several other companies (national and regional). His ability to be forward-thinking and business-minded has allowed him to build a national practice of advising clients on a variety of complex issues in an ever-changing, fast-paced commercial real estate market.
Greg is a member of the firm's Executive Committee and Board of Directors. In addition, Greg serves as the Chairman of the Board for the firm’s full-service title agency, Mercantile Title Agency, Inc., and is the Chair of the firm’s real estate committee, which manages Dinsmore’s expansive real estate interests.
Education
- University of Dayton School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2001)
- University of Dayton Law Review, research editor (2000 - 2001)
- CALI Awards (Top Grade) in Administrative Law; Commercial Drafting; UCC-1 (Sales); UCC-2 (Commercial Paper); UCC-3 (Secured Transactions); Basic Real Estate Transactions; and Constitutional Law
- Ohio University (B.B.A., cum laude, 1998)
- Business Pre-Law and Finance
Bar Admissions
Affiliations/Memberships
- Dayton Bar Association
- Ohio State Bar Association
- ICSC, Member
- Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce, Executive Dialogue
- Urban Land Institute
- The Foodbank (Miami Valley), Advisor and Volunteer
- Springboro City Schools’ Academic Volunteer Program
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, Big Brother
- SICSA, Advisor and Volunteer
- SAY Soccer, Past Board Member
- Springboro Chamber of Commerce, Past Member/Advisor