R. Kymn Harp at Buchalter
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Kymn Harp is a Shareholder in the Firm’s Chicago office and a member of the Real Estate practice group. Mr. Harp has over 40 years of experience representing investors, developers, business owners, and other stakeholders in all aspects of commercial real estate transactions and development. He applies a practical approach to project and transaction management through clear identification of transaction objectives and challenges, focused due diligence and creative problem-solving, and personal hands-on transaction management. Mr. Harp understands that the objective is not merely to get to closing – but to enable clients to realize their transaction objectives after closing.
Mr. Harp has comprehensive experience negotiating and drafting development agreements including public-private partnerships, air-rights development agreements, limited liability company (LLC) agreements, private-placement memoranda (PPMs) for real estate investment, IRC Section 1031 tax-deferred exchanges, tenant-in-common (TIC) agreements, reciprocal easement agreements, commercial and industrial leases, forbearance agreements, and other essential agreements for development and operation of commercial real estate.
Mr. Harp is also actively engaged in the complementary practice of business management law, representing businesses, and business owners and investors.
Utilizing a team approach, Mr. Harp works with construction attorneys, tax attorneys, and others as appropriate to assure a full-service solution to each client’s unique and sometimes intricate transaction challenges. Mr. Harp often assists commercial litigators handling commercial real estate litigation and is an experienced testifying expert witness in real estate disputes. Additionally, Mr. Harp has extensive experience handling distressed loan workouts involving commercial real estate collateral, and investor-side commercial, industrial, multi-family, and mixed-use condominium deconversions.
Widely recognized as an industry thought-leader, Kymn is a frequent author and speaker for the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (IICLE) and the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA). He has published numerous articles and white papers on real estate topics, many of which can be found at his blog, Harp-OnThis.com, and two books on commercial real estate including Illinois Commercial Real Estate – Due Diligence to Closing, with Checklists, 2016 edition.
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Buchalter is a full-service business law firm that has been teaming with clients for nine decades, providing legal counsel at all stages of their growth and evolution, and helping them meet the many legal challenges and decisions they face. Our clients are engaged in a diverse global economy governed by complex laws and regulations, and they trust us as advisers and business partners because we are involved in their world. They rely on our forward-thinking to help them resolve problems before they arise.
Our founding principle—providing our clients with the best business solutions—continues to lead us. We value each client relationship, recognizing that their success is our success. Our overarching goal— getting the best results for the client in a timely manner with sensitivity to cost—has engendered client loyalty, and the firm has grown from that loyalty.
Technology & Innovation
Our lawyers are accessible, resourceful, skillful, and adept at responding to change. Our technological capabilities keep case law and rule changes at our fingertips and client communications current, enabling us to create efficient, superior outcomes.
We strongly believe that technology is a tool that furthers the practice of law and have used that belief to develop a cutting-edge platform for our firm. We use a meshed (NVPN) network to facilitate work among offices, Cisco VoIP telephony, and Video-over-IP conferencing. Sharing documents is seamless through FileSite, which is also utilized to create our Client Extranets. To support our litigation matters, we use Relativity and RelOne as well as Everchron, Case Notebook, and Trial Director. Unlike many firms, we have the capacity to process end-to-end eDiscovery in-house, reducing client costs.
Community Involvement
Buchalter lawyers are also active members of the communities in which they live and work. Leadership is a value the founding partners practiced and passed on to the current generation of attorneys. Our lawyers sit on the boards of prominent organizations, teach and lecture frequently. We actively participate in many associations and groups including the Public Law Center, San Francisco Legal Aid Society, Practicing Law Institute, California State Bar Association, the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the LACBA Domestic Violence Project, the Sojourner Center, the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Phoenix, and many others.
Recognition & Awards
Buchalter is consistently ranked among the leading law firms by Chambers and Partners, Best Lawyers, The Daily Journal, and the Los Angeles Business Journal. It is also ranked among the leading firms nationally by American Legal Media and the National Law Journal.
Commitment to Diversity
Buchalter’s commitment to reflecting and enhancing the rich diversity of the clients and communities in which we practice is more than nine decades strong. The firm’s diversity of attorneys and staff provides clients with a greater array of creative talent and alternative thinking, benefiting all.
Real Estate Practice
Real Estate Lawyers in the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group represent lenders, national and regional banks, opportunity funds, and borrowers in connection with real estate financings, construction loans, equity investments, syndicated investments, portfolio and syndicated credit facilities, tax credit transactions, and municipal finance.
The firm’s real estate work involves all types of real estate projects—office, hotel, multifamily, and industrial. The firm also represents both purchasers and sellers in connection with real estate acquisitions and dispositions, and both landlords and tenants in connection with commercial leases. Real Estate Practice Group clients include national and regional institutions as well as entrepreneurial and middle-market clients who rely on the quality and cost-effectiveness of the firm’s legal services.
