Kathryn J. Carlisle-Kesling

Lead counsel for multiple land developers in Utah in the preparation of covenants, conditions and restrictions, easements, design guidelines, and sale of lots.

Representation of Conrad & Bischoff Inc. and its related companies in its acquisition by Parkland Corporation, through its wholly owned U.S. subsidiary Parkland USA.

Lead counsel in Utah related to a large compliance project involving residential leasing, property management licensing, federal and Utah consumer laws. 

Lead counsel in Utah involving the sale of a large luxury residential property in one of our ski resorts in Utah.

Lead team involving multiple portfolios of leases for restaurant and office locations.

Lead counsel in the sale of a complex property involving real estate improved with storage units, in Utah.

Lead counsel on the acquisition of land for one of Dayton, Ohio’s most modern and innovative medical facilities.

Assisted in representation for a major financial institution providing loan financing on multiple properties in Utah and surrounding states.

Assisted with representation of an approximately 13,000 acre site owner, with the master planned community, development agreement, open space easements, and other aspects of the project.

Lead counsel to multiple clients to develop form lot sales agreements, ground leases, options to lease, mechanic’s lien waivers.

Performed due diligence review for real estate, loan documents, and negotiated title insurance/loan policies for a finance transaction involving over 20 petroleum service stations, located in the mid-western United States.

Performed due diligence review for multiple geothermal, solar, and battery storage project sites in Utah.

Assisted with representation in the sale of Destination Homes’ single family residential and town home divisions.

Co-lead with representing a multi-national client with a lease negotiation involving in excess of 105,000 rentable square feet.

Before joining Holland & Hart, some of the matters Kate worked on include:

• 20 year-representation of one of Ohio’s largest independently owned title agents, involved in title/escrow issues/reviews/closings, claim resolution, preparation of conveyance documents. Co-authored “Best Practice” policies (including security and IT/cyber policies) and assisted client to become one of the first ALTA Best Practice certified agents (by a third-party auditor), in Ohio.

• Lead counsel for a major financial institution in the review of hundreds of leases, licenses, easements, service agreements, and right of way agreements for bank branches and ATM locations. 

• Local counsel for a fully integrated real estate development, construction, property management, and capital company located in Utah. 

• Lead counsel for a major hotel acquisition and franchise in Cleveland, Ohio. 

• Lead counsel for one of Ohio’s largest gas and oil operations, as land owner, including leases, pipeline agreements, and access agreements. 

• Lead counsel in Johnson v. New Direction IRA FBO King C. Lam, 2018-Ohio-4608, 2018 Ohio App. LEXIS 4920, successful oral argument and appeal in Cuyahoga County, Eighth Appellate District Court, involving a purported termination of easement appurtenant, bona fide purchaser statute, and forfeiture deeds.

• Lead counsel for land developer in sale of a subdivision and preparation of covenants, conditions and restrictions.