Carl W. Barton
Partner

Salt Lake City Office



Real Estate

Banking and Finance

Resorts, Lodging and Leisure Industry Group

Water Rights

Joint Ventures

Financial & Commercial Transactions

801-799-5831

cbarton@hollandhart.com

Mr. Barton's practice involves loan and financial transactions. These transactions include real estate and asset-based loans, tenant-in-common loans, construction loans, agricultural loans, conduit loans, lines of credit, energy project financing, and sale/leaseback financing. Relevant real estate-based lending transactions include golf courses and resorts, commercial, office, industrial, multi-family residential projects, tenant-in-common loans, large working ranches and farms with water rights, conduit loans, mezzanine loans, energy project financing, sale/leaseback financing, and multi-state and international transactions. He has also handled many real estate workout and foreclosure transactions for banking clients.

Mr. Barton also focuses on real estate acquisitions, sales, leasing, options, finance, development, and 1031 tax-deferred exchanges. Projects include the development and financing of large multi-family residential projects, properties on tribal lands, shopping malls and strip centers, golf course and luxury condominium resorts, self-storage facilities, hotels, business and industrial parks, large ranches, power plants and energy facilities, national restaurants, and office buildings and condominiums in all regions of the United States. He specializes in leasing, representing both landlords and tenants in retail, office, industrial, agricultural, and ground leases.

Mr. Barton also is experienced in the structuring of joint ventures in connection with the real estate projects he handles and in obtaining rights of way, land-use planning and zoning, and in the purchase, sale, and financing of water rights.

Clients include banks, insurance companies, developers, joint ventures, banks, and private lenders.

Mr. Barton has served on the firm's management committee, as the administrative partner of the firm's Salt Lake City office, and as the chair of the firm's Resort Practice Group.

Mr. Barton is active in the Utah banking community.

HONORS

Listing, America's Leading Business Lawyers (Real Estate), Chambers and Partners (2005-2008)

Listing, Utah's Legal Elite, Utah Business Magazine (2005-2010)

Listing, Super Lawyers (2007-2010)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member, Utah State Bar, Real Property, Corporate Counsel and Business Law Sections

Honorary French Consul, State of Utah (1988-2001)

Board Member, Utah Chamber Artists (2008-present)

Board Member, University of Utah Board of Academic Affairs (2006-present)

Board Member, University of Utah International Advisory Board (2009-present)

PUBLICATIONS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Lead presenter, Seminar, Negotiating Complex Real Estate Transactions, Lorman Education Systems, 2004-2006

Lead presenter, Seminar, Commercial Real Estate Financing in Utah, Lorman Education Systems, 2005-2007

EDUCATION

University of Utah School of Law J.D. 1986

University of Utah B.A. 1982
- English
- French
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Phi Kappa Phi