Jack is Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Real Estate and also practices in corporate and business law. He previously served as the firm’s President and Managing Director.

Jack helps clients negotiate, document and close complex residential and commercial real estate and finance transactions. He is experienced in all areas of acquisition, development and disposition, including a number of high profile transactions. Jack also counsels clients in numerous industries in the formation, organization, and management of business entities.

Representative Work

• Served as general counsel to a privately-held corporation during several years of sensitive negotiations leading to the closing of one of the largest public/private real estate and corporate transactions in the history of Florida.
• Represents organizers of and serves as counsel for several of the most successful wetlands mitigation banks in Florida
• Represented numerous institution lenders in documenting millions of dollars of loans for real estate acquisition, development, operations and sales.
• Represented purchaser of all forty separately-owned units of a Hurricane Charlie-destroyed condominium for redevelopment purposes with all closings conditioned upon simultaneous closings of all other units.
• Represented associations of REALTORS® for many years during a variety of markets and significant structural changes to multiple listing services
• Provided real estate and business entity related representation to high-value trusts and estates of decedents with numerous properties in multiple states and countries
• Represented major land owner in blocking up previously checkered real estate holdings through a series of acquisitions and simultaneous two-party like-kind exchanges
• Acted as qualified intermediary in many three-party non-simultaneous 1031 like-kind exchanges
• Acts as registered agent and performs annual maintenance for more than 100 corporations and limited liability companies

Awards & Recognition

• AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rating, Martindale-Hubbell
• Named to the list of Super Lawyers in Florida Super Lawyers Magazine, 2006, 2010-2011
• Pacesetter Award, Charlotte County Chamber of Commerce, 1994